Applications of WSN in health and agriculture

Author

Murillo, Andrés F. ; Peña, Mauricio ; Martínez, Diego

Author_Institution

Grupo de Investig. de Sist. de Telemando y Control Distribuido, Univ. Autonoma de Occidente, Jamundí, Colombia

fYear

2012

fDate

16-18 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Development of the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has been promoted by advances in miniaturization, ubiquitous communication, and digital convergence. This technology allows the creation of new applications by implementing of new infrastructure and data acquisition layers. This work presents two applications of WSN supported by the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol; the first one is oriented to monitoring a mushroom crop and the other one to e-health. Both applications are monitoring-oriented, results obtained show how WSN can be used to support requirements of applications for data acquisition in distributed and collaborative way.

Keywords

Zigbee; agriculture; body sensor networks; computerised monitoring; crops; data acquisition; medical computing; protocols; IEEE 802.15.4 protocol; WSN; agriculture application; body sensor network; data acquisition; digital convergence; e-health application; mushroom crop monitoring; ubiquitous communication; wireless sensor network; Biomedical monitoring; Electrocardiography; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Irrigation; Monitoring; Wireless sensor networks; Body sensor networks; Precision agriculture; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications Conference (COLCOM), 2012 IEEE Colombian

Conference_Location

Cali

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1267-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ColComCon.2012.6233678

Filename

6233678