Greenhouse Asset Management Using Wireless Sensor-Actor Networks

Author

Narasimhan, V. Lakshmi ; Arvind, Alex A. ; Bever, Ken

Author_Institution

Univ. of Western Kentucky, Bowling Green

fYear

2007

fDate

4-9 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

14

Abstract

Greenhouse plays an increasingly important role in modern horticulture in order to meet the needs of the world´s growing and demand driven economy. The primary issue of greenhouse based horticulture is to manage the greenhouse environment optimally in order to comply with the economic and environmental requirements. This paper discusses the advantages of using asset management strategy along wireless sensor-actor network technology for such cost-effective and environmental friendly greenhouse management.

Keywords

economics; environmental factors; greenhouses; horticulture; wireless sensor networks; economic requirements; environmental requirements; greenhouse asset management; horticulture; wireless sensor-actor networks; Asset management; Control systems; Costs; Crops; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Humans; Pest control; Technology management; Wireless sensor networks; Greenhouse management; asset management; sensor-actor networks.;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies, 2007. UBICOMM '07. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Papeete

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2993-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UBICOMM.2007.43

Filename

4402800