Research Article
Design and Implementation of a Wireless Sensor Network for Agricultural Applications
@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
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.
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