Title :
A WSN-based solution for precision farm purposes
Author :
Martinelli, Mauro ; Ioriatti, Luca ; Viani, Federico ; Benedetti, Manuel ; Massa, Andrea
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy
Abstract :
Driven by economic and environmental pressures, precision agriculture has brought many technological enhancements to traditional farm machinery and management tools. For a small tillage, manual control of inputs (such as water, fertilizer, pesticide) is still possible, but such an approach becomes unfeasible for larger cultivations. Furthermore, the manual control is based on the operator´s opinion and often have no quantitative basis. In order to optimize the yield and the use of the available resources, wireless sensor networks can play a relevant role because of their ability of providing real-time data collected by spatially distributed sensors.
Keywords :
agricultural machinery; agriculture; wireless sensor networks; WSN-based solution; cultivations; environmental pressures; farm machinery; farm management; precision agriculture; precision farm; spatially distributed sensors; wireless sensor networks; Agriculture; Condition monitoring; Costs; Global Positioning System; Human factors; Production; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Temperature sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Precision agriculture; distributed monitoring; multisensor systems; wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3394-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3395-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417630