Title :
Design of wireless multi-media sensor network for precision agriculture
Author :
Shouyi, Yin ; Leibo, Liu ; Renyan, Zhou ; Zhongfu, Sun ; Shaojun, Wei
Author_Institution :
Research Center for Mobile Computing, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Abstract :
To satisfy the needs of modern precision agriculture, a Precision Agriculture Sensing System (PASS) is designed, which is based on wireless multi-media sensor network. Both hardware and software of PASS are tailored for sensing in wide farmland without human supervision. A dedicated single-chip sensor node platform is designed specially for wireless multi-media sensor network. To guarantee the bulky data transmission, a bitmap index reliable data transmission mechanism is proposed. And a battery-array switching system is design to power the sensor node to elongate the lifetime. The effectiveness and performance of PASS have been evaluated through comprehensive experiments and large-scale real-life deployment.
Keywords :
Agriculture; Multimedia communication; Power reiability; Precision engineering; System-on-a-chip; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; low-power design; precision agriculture; reliable transmission; wireless sensor network;
Journal_Title :
Communications, China
DOI :
10.1109/CC.2013.6472860
