Study on an Agricultural Environment Monitoring Server System using Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

This paper proposes an agricultural environment monitoring server system for monitoring information concerning an outdoors agricultural production environment utilizing Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology. The proposed agricultural environment monitoring server system collects environmental and soil information on the outdoors through WSN-based environmental and soil sensors, collects image information through CCTVs, and collects location information using GPS modules. This collected information is converted into a database through the agricultural environment monitoring server consisting of a sensor manager, which manages information collected from the WSN sensors, an image information manager, which manages image information collected from CCTVs, and a GPS manager, which processes location information of the agricultural environment monitoring server system, and provides it to producers. In addition, a solar cell-based power supply is implemented for the server system so that it could be used in agricultural environments with insufficient power infrastructure. This agricultural environment monitoring server system could even monitor the environmental information on the outdoors remotely, and it could be expected that the use of such a system could contribute to increasing crop yields and improving quality in the agricultural field by supporting the decision making of crop producers through analysis of the collected information.

Effects of Varroa destructor on temperature and humidity conditions and expression of energy metabolism genes in infested honeybee colonies

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“…In addition, WSN is a wireless communication network that can self-organize and interact directly with the physical world. It can produce information that alerts to potential risks such as frost damage or toxic gases (Hwang et al, 2010).…”

Development of a Low Cost Wireless Sensor Network for a Real Time Paddy Field Monitoring System

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Design and Development of a Virtual Instrument for Hazardous Environment Monitoring and Control Using Lab VIEW

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