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An Autonomous Wireless Device for Real-Time Monitoring of Water Needs
The agri-food sector is in constantly renewing, continuously demanding new systems that facilitate farmers´ work. Efficient agricultural practices are essential to increasing farm profitability, and reducing water consumption can be achieved by real-time monitoring of water needs. However, the price...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7180496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32272757 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20072078 |
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author | Borrero, Juan D. Zabalo, Alberto |
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description | The agri-food sector is in constantly renewing, continuously demanding new systems that facilitate farmers´ work. Efficient agricultural practices are essential to increasing farm profitability, and reducing water consumption can be achieved by real-time monitoring of water needs. However, the prices of automatic systems for collecting data from several sources (soil and climate) are expensive and their autonomy is very low. This paper presents a low-consumption solution using the Internet of Things (IoT) based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and long-range wide-area network (LoRaWAN) technologies. By means of low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) communication, a farmer can monitor the state of crops in real time thanks to a large number of sensors connected wirelessly and distributed across the farm. The wireless sensor node developed, called BoXmote, exhibits very low power, since it has been optimized both in terms of hardware and software. The result is a higher degree of autonomy than commercial motes. This will allow the farmer to have access to all of the information necessary to achieve an efficient irrigation management of his crops with full autonomy. |
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spelling | pubmed-71804962020-05-01 An Autonomous Wireless Device for Real-Time Monitoring of Water Needs Borrero, Juan D. Zabalo, Alberto Sensors (Basel) Article The agri-food sector is in constantly renewing, continuously demanding new systems that facilitate farmers´ work. Efficient agricultural practices are essential to increasing farm profitability, and reducing water consumption can be achieved by real-time monitoring of water needs. However, the prices of automatic systems for collecting data from several sources (soil and climate) are expensive and their autonomy is very low. This paper presents a low-consumption solution using the Internet of Things (IoT) based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and long-range wide-area network (LoRaWAN) technologies. By means of low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) communication, a farmer can monitor the state of crops in real time thanks to a large number of sensors connected wirelessly and distributed across the farm. The wireless sensor node developed, called BoXmote, exhibits very low power, since it has been optimized both in terms of hardware and software. The result is a higher degree of autonomy than commercial motes. This will allow the farmer to have access to all of the information necessary to achieve an efficient irrigation management of his crops with full autonomy. MDPI 2020-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7180496/ /pubmed/32272757 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20072078 Text en © 2020 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 Borrero, Juan D. Zabalo, Alberto An Autonomous Wireless Device for Real-Time Monitoring of Water Needs |
title | An Autonomous Wireless Device for Real-Time Monitoring of Water Needs |
title_full | An Autonomous Wireless Device for Real-Time Monitoring of Water Needs |
title_fullStr | An Autonomous Wireless Device for Real-Time Monitoring of Water Needs |
title_full_unstemmed | An Autonomous Wireless Device for Real-Time Monitoring of Water Needs |
title_short | An Autonomous Wireless Device for Real-Time Monitoring of Water Needs |
title_sort | autonomous wireless device for real-time monitoring of water needs |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7180496/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32272757 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20072078 |
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