COMMONSense Net: A Wireless Sensor Network for Resource-Poor Agriculture in the Semiarid Areas of Developing Countries

Abstract

COMMONSense Net (CSN) is an ongoing research project that focuses on the design and implementation of a sensor network for agricultural management in developing countries, with a special emphasis on the resource-poor farmers of semiarid regions. Throughout the year 2004, we carried out a survey on the information needs of the population living in a cluster of villages in Southern Karnataka, India. The results highlighted the potential that environment-related information has for the improvement of farming strategies in the face of highly variable conditions, in particular for risk management strategies (choice of crop varieties, sowing and harvest periods, prevention of pests and diseases, ef�cient use of irrigation water, etc.). Accordingly, we advocate an original use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Our demand-driven approach for the design of appropriate ICT tools that are targeted at the resource-poor, we believe, is relatively new. In order to go beyond a pure technocratic approach, we adopted an iterative, participatory methodology. (c) 2007 by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Adaptación de una metaheurística evolutiva para generar árboles enrutadores en una red de sensores inalámbricos del contexto de la agricultura de precisión

“…En los proyectos documentados en [16][17][18][19][20] se ejecutaron despliegues de WSN en campos de cultivo con diferentes productos agrícolas. Del análisis de estos trabajos se define el modelo de red para MOR4WSN como sigue.…”

The significant impact of a set of topologies on wireless sensor networks

“…However, this routing protocol does not guarantee to eliminate sensing holes. COMMONSense Net (CNS) [2] is another WSN-based agriculture monitoring project developed for semiarid regions in developing countries. The routing protocol of CNS uses tree structure which is not reliable since a link failure or sensor node failure can make other nodes unreachable to BS.…”

“…In this article, we focus on routing and topology control challenges. Many of the existing routing protocols [1][2][3] use energy-inefficient tree structure and dynamic flooding. These protocols use the number of hops as the length of data transmission path.…”

Sample Assignment for Ensuring Sensing Quality and Balancing Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks

“…Examples include debris flow monitoring systems [1], [2], agriculture systems [3], and flood warning systems [4]. All these applications rely on collecting enough samples to reconstruct the monitored signal.…”