IoT 18(16): e1

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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
2018-07-19
Accepted
2018-09-21
Published
2018-10-31
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.158420

Copyright © 2018 Jobish John et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.