Wireless Sensor Networks for precision horticulture in Southern Spain
Wireless Sensor Networks for precision horticulture in Southern Spain
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DOI：
10.1016/j.compag.2009.04.006
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发表时间：
2009-08-01
影响因子：
8.3
通讯作者：
Vera, J. A.
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作者：
Lopez Riquelme, J. A.;Soto, F.;Vera, J. A.
近年来，无线传感器网络（WSN）被提出了许多应用。其中之一是精准农业，其中WSN可以在灌溉水资源的处理和管理，了解作物的变化以评估收获的最佳点，估计肥料需求和更准确地预测作物表现方面发挥重要作用。本文介绍了我们的经验，在半干旱地区的穆尔西亚的生态园艺企业的实验传感器网络的引进和部署。它使用四种类型的节点（土壤微尘，环境微尘，水微尘和网关微尘），其中一些连接到不同的传感器分布在现场部署的网络的拓扑结构。这些传感器可以测量各种土壤特性，如温度、体积含水量和盐度。对于每个节点，描述了整体架构、硬件和软件组件。该系统还包括一个实时监测应用程序，该应用程序从位于农场中心办公室的计算机上运行。系统的测试分两个阶段进行：第一阶段在实验室，验证所开发设备的功能要求、网络解决方案和微尘的电源管理;第二阶段在农场，评估设备的功能性能，如范围、鲁棒性和灵活性。该系统已成功地应用于一种生态甘蓝作物上。其结果是一个低成本，高可靠性和简单的基础设施，在园艺环境中的分布式区域收集农艺学数据。(C)2009 Elsevier B. V.保留所有权利。
In recent years many applications have been proposed for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). One of these is precision agriculture, where WSN can play an important part in the handling and management of water resources for irrigation, in understanding the changes in the crops to assess the optimum point for harvesting, in estimating fertilizer requirements and to predict crop performance more accurately. This paper describes our experience during the introduction and deployment of an experimental sensor network at an ecological horticultural enterprise in the semiarid region of Murcia. It presents the topology of the deployed network using four types of nodes (Soil Mote, Environmental Mote, Water Mote and Gateway Mote), some of them connected to different sensors distributed in the field. These sensors can measure various soil characteristics such us temperature, volumetric moisture content and salinity. For each node, the overall architecture, hardware and software components are described. The system also includes a real-time monitoring application operating from a computer placed in the central offices of the farm. The testing of the system was done in two phases: the first in the laboratory, to validate the functional requirements of the developed devices, the networking solution and the mote's power management; the second on the farm, to asses the functional performance of the devices, such as range, robustness and flexibility. The system was successfully implemented on a crop of ecological cabbage (Brassica oleracea). The result was a low cost, highly reliable and simple infrastructure for the collection of agronomical data over a distributed area in horticultural environments. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.