Wireless sensor networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Versatile low power media access for wireless sensor networks
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
From wireless sensors to field mapping: Anatomy of an application for precision agriculture
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Topology Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks for Precision Agriculture Applications
SENSORCOMM '07 Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Study on Backoff Algorithm for IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPAN
AINA '08 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
Wireless sensor networking for rain-fed farming decision support
Proceedings of the second ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Wireless Sensor Networks for precision horticulture in Southern Spain
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Energy and delay optimized contention for wireless sensor networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A wireless sensor network for precision viticulture: The NAV system
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Review: Future internet and the agri-food sector: State-of-the-art in literature and research
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
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Monitoring different parameters of interest in a crop has been proven as a useful tool to improve agricultural production. Crop monitoring in precision agriculture may be achieved by a multiplicity of technologies; however the use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) results in low-cost and low-power consumption deployments, therefore becoming a dominant option. It is also well-known that crops are also negatively affected by intruders (human or animals) and by insufficient control of the production process. Video-surveillance is a solution to detect and identify intruders as well as to better take care of the production process. In this paper, a new platform called Integrated WSN Solution for Precision Agriculture is proposed. The only cost-effective technology employed is IEEE 802.15.4, and it efficiently integrates crop data acquisition, data transmission to the end-user and video-surveillance tasks. This platform has been evaluated for the particular scenario of scattered crops video-surveillance by using computer simulation and analysis. The telecommunications metrics of choice are energy consumed, probability of frame collision and end-to-end latency, which have been carefully studied to offer the most appropriate wireless network operation. Wireless node prototypes providing agriculture data monitoring, motion detection, camera sensor and long distance data transmission (in the order of several kilometers) are developed. The performance evaluation of this real tests-bed scenario demonstrates the feasibility of the platform designed and confirms the simulation and analytical results.