Wireless sensor networks for habitat monitoring
WSNA '02 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks and applications
PlantCare: An Investigation in Practical Ubiquitous Systems
UbiComp '02 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Computer
Integrated wireless sensor/actuator networks in an agricultural application
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
An ontology-based context management and reasoning process for UbiComp applications
Proceedings of the 2005 joint conference on Smart objects and ambient intelligence: innovative context-aware services: usages and technologies
The development of a novel minaturized modular platform for wireless sensor networks
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Garden Variety Pervasive Computing
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Vineyard Computing: Sensor Networks in Agricultural Production
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Development of field programmable modular wireless sensor network nodes for ambient systems
Computer Communications
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In this paper we discuss research work that enables the development of hybrid systems consisting of communicating plants and artefacts and we investigate methods of creating "interfaces" between artefacts and plants in order to enable people to form mixed, interacting communities. Our research objective is to develop hardware and software components that enable a seamless interaction between plants and artefacts in scenarios ranging from domestic plant care to precision agriculture. This paper deals with the approach that we follow for the development of such hybrid systems and discusses both hardware and software architectural aspects, with a special focus on describing the modular platform for wireless sensor network implemented and the distributed context management process followed. The latter imposes a proactive computing model by looping sensor data with actuators through a decision-making layer. The deployment of the system in a precision agriculture application is also presented.