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A Reliable Wireless Control System for Tomato Hydroponics
Agricultural systems using advanced information and communication (ICT) technology can produce high-quality crops in a stable environment while decreasing the need for manual labor. The system collects a wide variety of environmental data and provides the precise cultivation control needed to produc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4883335/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27164105 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s16050644 |
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author | Ibayashi, Hirofumi Kaneda, Yukimasa Imahara, Jungo Oishi, Naoki Kuroda, Masahiro Mineno, Hiroshi |
author_facet | Ibayashi, Hirofumi Kaneda, Yukimasa Imahara, Jungo Oishi, Naoki Kuroda, Masahiro Mineno, Hiroshi |
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description | Agricultural systems using advanced information and communication (ICT) technology can produce high-quality crops in a stable environment while decreasing the need for manual labor. The system collects a wide variety of environmental data and provides the precise cultivation control needed to produce high value-added crops; however, there are the problems of packet transmission errors in wireless sensor networks or system failure due to having the equipment in a hot and humid environment. In this paper, we propose a reliable wireless control system for hydroponic tomato cultivation using the 400 MHz wireless band and the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. The 400 MHz band, which is lower than the 2.4 GHz band, has good obstacle diffraction, and zero-data-loss communication is realized using the guaranteed time-slot method supported by the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. In addition, this system has fault tolerance and a self-healing function to recover from faults such as packet transmission failures due to deterioration of the wireless communication quality. In our basic experiments, the 400 MHz band wireless communication was not affected by the plants’ growth, and the packet error rate was less than that of the 2.4 GHz band. In summary, we achieved a real-time hydroponic liquid supply control with no data loss by applying a 400 MHz band WSN to hydroponic tomato cultivation. |
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spelling | pubmed-48833352016-05-27 A Reliable Wireless Control System for Tomato Hydroponics Ibayashi, Hirofumi Kaneda, Yukimasa Imahara, Jungo Oishi, Naoki Kuroda, Masahiro Mineno, Hiroshi Sensors (Basel) Article Agricultural systems using advanced information and communication (ICT) technology can produce high-quality crops in a stable environment while decreasing the need for manual labor. The system collects a wide variety of environmental data and provides the precise cultivation control needed to produce high value-added crops; however, there are the problems of packet transmission errors in wireless sensor networks or system failure due to having the equipment in a hot and humid environment. In this paper, we propose a reliable wireless control system for hydroponic tomato cultivation using the 400 MHz wireless band and the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. The 400 MHz band, which is lower than the 2.4 GHz band, has good obstacle diffraction, and zero-data-loss communication is realized using the guaranteed time-slot method supported by the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. In addition, this system has fault tolerance and a self-healing function to recover from faults such as packet transmission failures due to deterioration of the wireless communication quality. In our basic experiments, the 400 MHz band wireless communication was not affected by the plants’ growth, and the packet error rate was less than that of the 2.4 GHz band. In summary, we achieved a real-time hydroponic liquid supply control with no data loss by applying a 400 MHz band WSN to hydroponic tomato cultivation. MDPI 2016-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4883335/ /pubmed/27164105 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s16050644 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ibayashi, Hirofumi Kaneda, Yukimasa Imahara, Jungo Oishi, Naoki Kuroda, Masahiro Mineno, Hiroshi A Reliable Wireless Control System for Tomato Hydroponics |
title | A Reliable Wireless Control System for Tomato Hydroponics |
title_full | A Reliable Wireless Control System for Tomato Hydroponics |
title_fullStr | A Reliable Wireless Control System for Tomato Hydroponics |
title_full_unstemmed | A Reliable Wireless Control System for Tomato Hydroponics |
title_short | A Reliable Wireless Control System for Tomato Hydroponics |
title_sort | reliable wireless control system for tomato hydroponics |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4883335/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27164105 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s16050644 |
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