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to view a live plant, and this urge to understand these plants in view enables the retention of information, rather than gained through books. Even though there are many
dedicated websites available to know more information on plants and trees, there is a
huge demand for effective and easy to use the system to provide handy information
about the trees (Blicharska and Mikusi´ nski 2014); thus, this motivated us to use QR
(Quick Response) code tagging to trees (Agarwal et al. 2006; Wäldchen et al. 2018).
The QR codes are better than a traditional barcode since they can accommodate much
more data; URL links, geographical coordinates and other information in the form
of text. The other unique attribute of QR Codes is that it is not restricted and relied
on the hand-held scanner the smartphones can be used to quickly scan the QR Code
(Várallyai 2012; Goyal et al. 2016).
A University of Minnesota forestry class engaged QR codes to carter technology
to aid nature. Students labelled trees around the St. Paul campus as part of a research
project for their arboriculture course, wherein they placed signboard with QR codes
on trees, enabling smartphone users to access information about the specific tree by
scanning the sign. Arboriculture is the study of how to care for trees and shrubs and
what tree most suited for a particular area; thus, the project paved the way for students
to enable the public to find out about the trees on their campus (Chuang et al. 2010;
QreateTrax 2012). In this context, a project has been done (PB Siddhartha College of
Arts and Science, Vijayawada) to create awareness about the conservation of plants
among the educated people. Anyone could use their smartphones to scan the QR
code hung on the trees to acquire all the information about the plant ranging from its
botanical name to its medicinal value at their fingertips (Grimm et al. 2016; Marthi
2019). The Botany department toiled for a month to collate the entire info on trees
in the college campus and assigned QR codes to them. They catalogued the trees
according to their species and incorporated vital information. The positive comment
from the initial set of users was on the ease of using this mode to gain knowledge
about the trees (Ballard 2007; Austen et al. 2016).
2 Proposed Work
The main objective of the proposed system is to provide information about the trees
with the aid of the QR code, employing which the user will be gaining the knowledge
by scanning the code via suitable scanner applications. In the proposed system, a
QR code will be generated for each plant or tree on the college campus. The code
generated with the help of the link would contain the details of the plants that will be
stored in the college server. This empowers the user to search for the details of the
plants quickly, and also it is user-friendly. User can easily access the code without
anyone’s help and also saves their time instead of searching it in textbooks (Sun et al.
2017) The proposed work involves many tasks such as tree dataset preparation, web
page creation for each tree, generation of QR code, hanging QR code on trees and
uploading web page in the webserver (Hagedorn et al. 2010; Joly et al. 2014a, b).
The proposed system framework is shown in Fig. 1.
V. E. Chahana et al.
to view a live plant, and this urge to understand these plants in view enables the retention of information, rather than gained through books. Even though there are many
dedicated websites available to know more information on plants and trees, there is a
huge demand for effective and easy to use the system to provide handy information
about the trees (Blicharska and Mikusi´ nski 2014); thus, this motivated us to use QR
(Quick Response) code tagging to trees (Agarwal et al. 2006; Wäldchen et al. 2018).
The QR codes are better than a traditional barcode since they can accommodate much
more data; URL links, geographical coordinates and other information in the form
of text. The other unique attribute of QR Codes is that it is not restricted and relied
on the hand-held scanner the smartphones can be used to quickly scan the QR Code
(Várallyai 2012; Goyal et al. 2016).
A University of Minnesota forestry class engaged QR codes to carter technology
to aid nature. Students labelled trees around the St. Paul campus as part of a research
project for their arboriculture course, wherein they placed signboard with QR codes
on trees, enabling smartphone users to access information about the specific tree by
scanning the sign. Arboriculture is the study of how to care for trees and shrubs and
what tree most suited for a particular area; thus, the project paved the way for students
to enable the public to find out about the trees on their campus (Chuang et al. 2010;
QreateTrax 2012). In this context, a project has been done (PB Siddhartha College of
Arts and Science, Vijayawada) to create awareness about the conservation of plants
among the educated people. Anyone could use their smartphones to scan the QR
code hung on the trees to acquire all the information about the plant ranging from its
botanical name to its medicinal value at their fingertips (Grimm et al. 2016; Marthi
2019). The Botany department toiled for a month to collate the entire info on trees
in the college campus and assigned QR codes to them. They catalogued the trees
according to their species and incorporated vital information. The positive comment
from the initial set of users was on the ease of using this mode to gain knowledge
about the trees (Ballard 2007; Austen et al. 2016).
2 Proposed Work
The main objective of the proposed system is to provide information about the trees
with the aid of the QR code, employing which the user will be gaining the knowledge
by scanning the code via suitable scanner applications. In the proposed system, a
QR code will be generated for each plant or tree on the college campus. The code
generated with the help of the link would contain the details of the plants that will be
stored in the college server. This empowers the user to search for the details of the
plants quickly, and also it is user-friendly. User can easily access the code without
anyone’s help and also saves their time instead of searching it in textbooks (Sun et al.
2017) The proposed work involves many tasks such as tree dataset preparation, web
page creation for each tree, generation of QR code, hanging QR code on trees and
uploading web page in the webserver (Hagedorn et al. 2010; Joly et al. 2014a, b).
The proposed system framework is shown in Fig. 1.