Title :
Murphy loves potatoes: experiences from a pilot sensor network deployment in precision agriculture
Author :
Langendoen, Koen ; Baggio, Aline ; Visser, Otto
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng., Math., & Comput. Sci., Delft Univ. of Technol.
Abstract :
We report on preliminary experiences with deploying a large-scale sensor network (about 100 nodes) for a pilot in precision agriculture. The pilot did not answer the initial research questions, but instead revealed many engineering problems typically overlooked by (computer) scientists evaluating their work by means of simulation. The deployment prompted us to rethink our development process and includes important lessons for the WSN research community as a whole
Keywords :
agriculture; digital simulation; wireless sensor networks; large-scale sensor network; pilot sensor network deployment; precision agriculture; wireless sensor network; Agricultural engineering; Agriculture; Crops; Diseases; Hardware; Intelligent networks; Large-scale systems; Mathematics; Optical sensors; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2006. IPDPS 2006. 20th International
Conference_Location :
Rhodes Island
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0054-6
DOI :
10.1109/IPDPS.2006.1639412
