Design and Implementation of a Wireless Sensor Network for Agricultural Applications

Jobish John; Gaurav Kasbekar; Dinesh Sharma; V. Ramulu; Maryam Baghini

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Design and Implementation of a Wireless Sensor Network for Agricultural Applications

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@ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.158420,
    author={Jobish John and Gaurav S. Kasbekar and Dinesh K. Sharma and V. Ramulu and Maryam Shojaei Baghini},
    title={Design and Implementation of a Wireless Sensor Network for Agricultural Applications},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things},
    volume={4},
    number={16},
    publisher={EAI},
    journal_a={IOT},
    year={2018},
    month={10},
    keywords={Sensor network, Data collection, Energy efficiency},
    doi={10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.158420}
}

Jobish John
Gaurav S. Kasbekar
Dinesh K. Sharma
V. Ramulu
Maryam Shojaei Baghini
Year: 2018
Design and Implementation of a Wireless Sensor Network for Agricultural Applications
IOT
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.158420

Jobish John¹^,*, Gaurav S. Kasbekar¹, Dinesh K. Sharma¹, V. Ramulu², Maryam Shojaei Baghini¹

1: Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai - 400076, Mumbai, India
2: Water Technology Center, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar - 500030, Hyderabad, India

*Contact email: jobish.john@ee.iitb.ac.in

Abstract

We present the design and implementation of a shortest path tree based, energy eﬃcient data collection wireless sensor network to sense various parameters in an agricultural farm using in-house developed low cost sensors. Nodes follow a synchronized, periodic sleep-wake up schedule to maximize the lifetime of the network. The implemented network consists of 24 sensor nodes in a 3 acre maize farm and its performance is captured by 7 snooper nodes for diﬀerent data collection intervals: 10 minutes,1 hour and 3 hours. The almost static nature of wireless links in the farm motivated us to use the same tree for a long data collection period (3 days). The imbalance in energy consumption across nodes is observed to be very small and the network architecture uses easy-to-implement protocols to perform diﬀerent network activities including handling of node failures. We present the results and analysis of extensive tests conducted on our implementation, which provide signiﬁcant insights.

Keywords: Sensor network, Data collection, Energy efficiency

Received: 19th Jul 2018
Accepted: 21st Sep 2018
Published: 31st Oct 2018
Publisher: EAI

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.158420

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