A WSN-based solution for precision farm purposes

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.