Performance comparison of communication protocol algorithms in WSN based agriculture: PlanTech case study

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have become increasingly important in agriculture in recent years because they provide critical tools for better decision-making (knowledge -collection- storage- analysis-dissemination of data). These technologies provide resources for making informed decisions and implementing control measures on time. They are also essential tools for understanding the effects of climate change on agriculture, such as shrinking arable land and providing solutions to mitigate the negative consequences of these phenomena. In this paper, we propose a model based on WSN for the supervision of agricultural data. We investigate the impact of deterministic, random, and selective CH routing protocols on the network’s lifetime, residual energy, and exchanged information quantity. The deterministic CH protocol showed significant results in terms of the number of functional nodes and the energy consumption in the network. Thus, the selective CH protocol outperformed both protocols regarding the quantity of exchanged data in the network.