Novel QR Code Tagging System
for Campus Vegetation to Promote
Ecorestoration
V. E. Chahana, S. Abirami, S. Karpagavalli, and C. Arunpriya
Abstract This work is an effort to create a means to establish environment sustainability through QR code tagging to trees. In this digital era, with increased usage of
smartphones, tablets and the availability of these devices at a lower cost motivated us
to adopt QR code tagging for obtaining detailed information about the flora collection available in our college. The objective of this work is to tag each tree in the
campus with QR Code and enable the students aware of all the facts and data about
the tree from its scientific name to its medicinal and pharmaceutic potential along
with other interesting information, by scanning the QR code put up on the tree using
their smartphone. These codes can be easily accessed by anyone in the college so
that it will help the student, faculty, and others to gain knowledge about the plants
available in the college campus.
Keywords Matrix barcode · Recording and displaying · Information on trees ·
Environmental informatics · Environmental modelling
1 Introduction
The role and function of Trees are both vital and critical for people and the planet.
Numerous studies have proved that the presence of trees and urban nature can improve
people’s mental and physical health, student’s attention and test scores, the property values in a neighbourhood, and beyond (Endreny 2018). Trees are essential
for healthy communities and people. Protecting and Investing in trees will result in
establishing a sustainable environment and society (Aplin 2008; Turner-Skoff and
Cavender 2019). Today most students don’t find the time and energy to go to the
library and read books, some students who are interested to know about them seek
information in textbooks, which may provide a monograph and other statistics. Still,
the identification of these plants cumbersome via textbooks. It becomes fascinating
V. E. Chahana · S. Abirami · S. Karpagavalli · C. Arunpriya (B)
Department of Computer Science, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, Tamil
Nadu, India
e-mail: arunpriya.psgrkcw@yahoo.com
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. Prashanthi et al. (eds.), Bioremediation and Green Technologies, Environmental
Science and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64122-1_22
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for Campus Vegetation to Promote
Ecorestoration
V. E. Chahana, S. Abirami, S. Karpagavalli, and C. Arunpriya
Abstract This work is an effort to create a means to establish environment sustainability through QR code tagging to trees. In this digital era, with increased usage of
smartphones, tablets and the availability of these devices at a lower cost motivated us
to adopt QR code tagging for obtaining detailed information about the flora collection available in our college. The objective of this work is to tag each tree in the
campus with QR Code and enable the students aware of all the facts and data about
the tree from its scientific name to its medicinal and pharmaceutic potential along
with other interesting information, by scanning the QR code put up on the tree using
their smartphone. These codes can be easily accessed by anyone in the college so
that it will help the student, faculty, and others to gain knowledge about the plants
available in the college campus.
Keywords Matrix barcode · Recording and displaying · Information on trees ·
Environmental informatics · Environmental modelling
1 Introduction
The role and function of Trees are both vital and critical for people and the planet.
Numerous studies have proved that the presence of trees and urban nature can improve
people’s mental and physical health, student’s attention and test scores, the property values in a neighbourhood, and beyond (Endreny 2018). Trees are essential
for healthy communities and people. Protecting and Investing in trees will result in
establishing a sustainable environment and society (Aplin 2008; Turner-Skoff and
Cavender 2019). Today most students don’t find the time and energy to go to the
library and read books, some students who are interested to know about them seek
information in textbooks, which may provide a monograph and other statistics. Still,
the identification of these plants cumbersome via textbooks. It becomes fascinating
V. E. Chahana · S. Abirami · S. Karpagavalli · C. Arunpriya (B)
Department of Computer Science, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, Tamil
Nadu, India
e-mail: arunpriya.psgrkcw@yahoo.com
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. Prashanthi et al. (eds.), Bioremediation and Green Technologies, Environmental
Science and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64122-1_22
319