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. 2010;10(12):11189-211.
doi: 10.3390/s101211189. Epub 2010 Dec 8.

Study on an agricultural environment monitoring server system using Wireless Sensor Networks

Jeonghwan Hwang  1 , Changsun Shin, Hyun Yoe
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Study on an agricultural environment monitoring server system using Wireless Sensor Networks

Jeonghwan Hwang et al. Sensors (Basel). 2010.

Abstract

This paper proposes an agricultural environment monitoring server system for monitoring information concerning an outdoors agricultural production environment utilizing Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology. The proposed agricultural environment monitoring server system collects environmental and soil information on the outdoors through WSN-based environmental and soil sensors, collects image information through CCTVs, and collects location information using GPS modules. This collected information is converted into a database through the agricultural environment monitoring server consisting of a sensor manager, which manages information collected from the WSN sensors, an image information manager, which manages image information collected from CCTVs, and a GPS manager, which processes location information of the agricultural environment monitoring server system, and provides it to producers. In addition, a solar cell-based power supply is implemented for the server system so that it could be used in agricultural environments with insufficient power infrastructure. This agricultural environment monitoring server system could even monitor the environmental information on the outdoors remotely, and it could be expected that the use of such a system could contribute to increasing crop yields and improving quality in the agricultural field by supporting the decision making of crop producers through analysis of the collected information.

Keywords: agriculture; monitoring server; ubiquitous; wireless sensor networks.

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Figure 1.
Agricultural Environment Monitoring Server System Architecture.
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Figure 2.
Operation Process of the Environment Monitoring Service.
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Figure 3.
Operation Process of the Image Monitoring Service.
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Operation Process of the Location Monitoring Service.
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Operation Process of the Condition Notification Service.
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Figure 6.
Prototype Version 1 of the Agricultural Environment Monitoring Server System.
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Soil sensor.
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Environmental Sensor.
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Figure 9.
GPS Module.
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Figure 10.
Solar Cell and Storage Battery.
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Figure 11.
Agricultural Environment Monitoring Server (Database, Web Server).
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Figure 12.
Prototype Version 2 of Agricultural Environment Monitoring Server System.
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Figure 13.
Embedded Board Module (Gateway, Database, and Web Server).
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Figure 14.
Implementation of the Sensor Manager.
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Environmental Information Table (a) and Soil Information Table (b).
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Screen that Receives Data Sent by Another Server System.
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GPS Manager and GPS Information Table. (a) GPS Manager; (b) Location Information Table.
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Figure 18.
Web GUI for Agricultural Environment Monitoring Server System.
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Figure 19.
Measured Environmental Data Graph. (a) Temperature Graph (2010.02.23); (b) Humidity Graph (2010.02.23); (c) Luminance Graph (2010.02.23).
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Figure 20.
Field Test Result on Power Consumption of the Proposed System.
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