DocumentCode :
3388627
Title :
COMMON-Sense Net: Improved Water Management for Resource-Poor Farmers via Sensor Networks
Author :
Panchard, Jacques ; Rao, Seshagiri ; Prabhakar, T.V. ; Jamadagni, H.S. ; Hubaux, Jean-Pierre
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. & Commun. Sci., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne
fYear :
2006
fDate :
38838
Firstpage :
22
Lastpage :
33
Abstract :
We describe the on-going design and implementation of a sensor network for agricultural management targeted at resource-poor farmers in India. Our focus on semi-arid regions led us to concentrate on water-related issues. Throughout 2004, we carried out a survey on the information needs of the population living in a cluster of villages in our study area. The results highlighted the potential that environment-related information has for the improvement of farming strategies in the face of highly variable conditions, in particular for risk management strategies (choice of crop varieties, sowing and harvest periods, prevention of pests and diseases, efficient use of irrigation water etc.). This leads us to advocate an original use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). We believe our demand-driven approach for the design of appropriate ICT tools that are targeted at the resource-poor to be relatively new. In order to go beyond a pure technocratic approach, we adopted an iterative, participatory methodology
Keywords :
farming; information technology; risk management; sensor fusion; water resources; COMMON-Sense Net; ICT tools; agricultural management; farming strategies; information and communication technologies; information needs; resource-poor farmers; risk management; sensor networks; water management; Agriculture; Computer network management; Crops; Diseases; Geographic Information Systems; Irrigation; Predictive models; Resource management; Soil; Water resources;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2006. ICTD '06. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Berkeley, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0485-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0485-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICTD.2006.301833
Filename :
4085509
Link To Document :
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