A Review of Wireless Sensor Technologies and Applications in Agriculture and Food Industry: State of the Art and Current Trends

Ruiz-García, Luis; Lunadei, Loredana; Elorza, Pilar Barreiro; Robla, J. I.

doi:10.3390/s90604728

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“…The issue of multiregistration is discussed and technological systems allowing researchers interested to record a large variety of data such as temperature, ECG and activity on each animal, or one specific measure on a entire group of animals, are mentioned (Hamrita and Paulishen, 2011). Moreover, wireless sensor technologies allow different network topologies, cooperative capabilities, and multihop communication protocoles, that radio frequency identification systems do not allow (Ruiz-Garcia et al, 2009). …”

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“…Then motes are small, low-cost, lowpower requirements computers monitoring one or more Mems-type sensors. These MEMS include inertial, pressure, temperature, humidity, strain-gage, and various piezo and capacitive transducers for proximity, position, velocity, acceleration and vibration measurements (Güler and Ubeyli, 2002;Ruiz-Garcia et al, 2009;Hamrita et al 2011). MEMS will allow users to assess physiological or behavioral features such as ECG, cardiac frequency, respiration frequency, activity or resting, rumination, pH, glycemia, oxygen saturation, hematocrit, and to integrate time-related variations of these parameters.…”

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A Review of Methods to Measure Animal Body Temperature in Precision Farming

Sellier¹,

Guettier²,

Staub³

2014

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Automation of phenotypic measurements of livestock has become a more important goal for scientists and also for farmers who need a more precise, real-time knowledge of their animals. Among physiological measures, body temperature and its variations are key indicators of the physiological health and well-being of animals. Although measuring the body temperature may seem a trivial matter, its implementation is faced with many difficulties both at biological and technological levels in a field of constant progress. Today, there are many studies reporting taking temperature measurements without restraining animals. The present report focuses on the two main approaches to temperature measurements that use direct contact or radiation sensors. Specifically, we investigated the use of thermocouples, thermistors and infrared radiation sensors. A wide literature review using one of these techniques was conducted in which different animal species, different purposes, different experimental designs, various equipments, and different devices and gold standard methods are discussed. These technologies will continue their dizzying development, leading to new communication protocols, sensors miniaturization and a more efficient management of energy. These developments will have a direct impact on the increase of reading distances and the amount of information stored. In response to the request of farmers and researchers, integrated monitoring systems are already marketed with user-friendly interfaces and softwares for complex data storage and treatments.

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A Review of Methods to Measure Animal Body Temperature in Precision Farming

Sellier¹,

Guettier²,

Staub³

2014

AJAST

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“…These sensors have been used in conjunction with instrumentation systems to control the irrigation process, traditionally with wired dataloggers. In recent years, the quick development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has led to the use of sensor equipment with very little wiring, and great improvements in their installation and maintenance (Hussain, 2012;Khan et al, 2014;Nolz et al, 2013;Ruiz-Garcia et al, 2009;Yu et al, 2013). Wireless sensor networks are composed of different measuring points, called nodes, able to communicate wirelessly.…”

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A wireless sensors architecture for efficient irrigation water management

Navarro-Hellín

Torres-Sánchez

Vallés

et al. 2015

Agricultural Water Management

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a b s t r a c tWater is an essential resource for the development of agriculture. In several locations like the southeast of Spain water is scarce and its cost is high, so optimal management of this important resource is essential. Therefore, the application of irrigation strategies to improve the watering process, affects the profitability of crops quite significantly. It is necessary to carry out the instrumentation of the variables that affect the growing process of the crop (soil, water and plant) and use the techniques associated with this instrumentation to take actions to optimize the production. The system proposed in this paper uses information and communication technologies, allowing the user to consult and analyze the information obtained by different sensors from any device (computer, mobile phone or tablet) in an easy and comfortable way. The proposed architecture is based on different wireless nodes equipped with GPRS connectivity. Each wireless node is completely autonomous and makes use of solar energy, giving it virtually unlimited autonomy. Different commercial sensors for measuring the wide range of parameters of the soil, plant and atmosphere can be connected to the nodes. The data is sent and processed on a remote server, which stores the information of the sensors in a database, allowing further consultation and analysis of data in a simple and versatile way.

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“…That also includes agriculture, e.g., [4,7,20,46]; extensively surveyed recently by [36,43]. As a consequence of this progress two prominent advantages have become clear: first, WSNs ability to provide detailed spatio-temporal characteristics of environments and processes broadens significantly the understanding of the underlying application.…”

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