Design and Implementation of a Wireless Sensor Network for Agricultural Applications

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.158420

Keywords:

Sensor network, Data collection, Energy efficiency

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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Published

31-10-2018

How to Cite

[1]
J. . John, G. . S. Kasbekar, D. . K. Sharma, V. . Ramulu, and M. . Shojaei Baghini, “Design and Implementation of a Wireless Sensor Network for Agricultural Applications”, EAI Endorsed Trans IoT, vol. 4, no. 16, p. e1, Oct. 2018.