Agro-Sense: Real Time Monitoring of the Climatological conditions of the agricultural field for Precision Agriculture using sensor based Wireless Mesh Networks
Climatological condition monitoring is one of the most important aspects in agricultural production that has a direct impact on the productivity and maintenance of field crop. A huge loss is incurred every year due to damages of crop by various diseases caused by improper climatological conditions. Deployment of intelligent sensor nodes, around the crop field, promises a wide range of new applications like plant growth monitoring and monitoring of various environmental conditions that influences agricultural productions.
This project was taken up with an aim to design, develop and implement a sensor-based wireless network in a pilot scale to monitor agricultural parameters like temperature, humidity, Soil pH, Soil Moisture, Electrical conductivity, Soil temperature etc. in real time for better management and maintenance of agricultural production and to prevent the severe attacks of diseases on the crops caused by the climatological conditions. The project was funded by MediaLab Asia, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Govt. of India
Publications:
- Siuli Roy and Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, “A Test-bed on Real-time Monitoring of Agricultural Parameters using Wireless Sensor Networks for Precision Agriculture”, invited paper, International Conference on Intelligent Infrastructure at 47th Annual National Convention of the Computer Society of India, December 1-2, 2012, Kolkata
- Anurag D, Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, "AGRO-SENSE: Precision Agriculture using Sensor based Wireless Mesh Networks", Proceedings of ITU (International Telecommunications Union) Conference on Next Generation Networks, Geneva, Switzerland, May 12-13, 2008.