Title
PalmNET: An open-source wireless sensor network for oil palm plantations
Date Issued
01 August 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Universidade Federal Do Rio de Janeiro
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
In this paper, a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) solution is proposed for soil's condition measurement to monitor oil palm plantations (PalmNET) according to agricultural meteorological practices. The PalmNET monitoring system is composed by a WSN used for in-field soil's condition measurement and a web-server interface for data visualization. PalmNET can automatically collect soil moisture data and transmit field data through a ZigBee network to a web-server. The PalmNET proof-of-concept is a WSN built upon open-source hardware and software, which includes two sensor nodes, a sink and a Gateway with a GPRS module. The WSN was deployed in Palmar de la Vizcaína Experimental Field Station having the following proof of concept objectives: (i) collect and centralize soil moisture data and (ii) post data to a web application interface. Results have revealed PalmNET as a feasible, automated and solar powered application for oil palm plantations in Colombia.
Start page
783
End page
788
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85028514099
ISBN
9781509044283
Conference
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2017
Source funding
Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)
Sponsor(s)
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga under project ID: E56010, in collaboration with Corporación Centro de Investigación en Palma de Aceite - CENIPALMA, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Univer-sidad Autónoma de Manizales, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - España, and Red temática CYTED RiegoNETs.
Authors would also like to acknowledge the cooperation of partners within the Center of Excellence and Appropriation on the Internet of Things, as well as all institutions that supported this work: the Colombian Ministry for the Information and Communication Technologies, and the Colombian Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation through the National Trust for Funding Science, Technology and Innovation Francisco José de Caldas, under the project ID: FP44842-502-2015.
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