Murphy loves potatoes: experiences from a pilot sensor network deployment in precision agriculture

  • Authors:
  • Koen Langendoen;Aline Baggio;Otto Visser

  • Affiliations:
  • Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science;Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science;Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science

  • Venue:
  • IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We report on preliminary experiences with deploying a large-scale sensor network (about 100 nodes) for a pilot in precision agriculture. The pilot did not answer the initial research questions, but instead revealed many engineering problems typically overlooked by (computer) scientists evaluating their work by means of simulation. The deployment prompted us to rethink our development process and includes important lessons for the WSN research community as a whole.