TY - GEN
T1 - A novel soil measuring wireless sensor network
AU - Wang, Qiang
AU - Terzis, Andreas
AU - Szalay, Alex
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Emerging technologies have made low-power and low-cost wireless sensor networks feasible. This paper presents a hierarchical wireless sensor network for measuring soil parameters such as temperature and humidity. Specifically, we designed sensor nodes that are placed completely underground and are used to collect soil measurements. These nodes use their radios to deliver the collected measurements to one of multiple relay nodes located above ground. In turn, relay nodes that are capable of long-range communications forward the data collected from the network's sensor nodes to a base node, which is connected to a workstation. The proposed hierarchical wireless sensor network uses a probabilistic communication protocol to achieve a very low duty cycle and hence a long life-time for soil monitoring applications.
AB - Emerging technologies have made low-power and low-cost wireless sensor networks feasible. This paper presents a hierarchical wireless sensor network for measuring soil parameters such as temperature and humidity. Specifically, we designed sensor nodes that are placed completely underground and are used to collect soil measurements. These nodes use their radios to deliver the collected measurements to one of multiple relay nodes located above ground. In turn, relay nodes that are capable of long-range communications forward the data collected from the network's sensor nodes to a base node, which is connected to a workstation. The proposed hierarchical wireless sensor network uses a probabilistic communication protocol to achieve a very low duty cycle and hence a long life-time for soil monitoring applications.
KW - Low power communication
KW - Soil measurement
KW - Wireless sensor networks
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U2 - 10.1109/IMTC.2010.5488224
DO - 10.1109/IMTC.2010.5488224
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77957857391
SN - 9781424428335
T3 - 2010 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2010 - Proceedings
SP - 412
EP - 415
BT - 2010 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2010 - Proceedings
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2010
Y2 - 3 May 2010 through 6 May 2010
ER -