Abstract
Agricultural systems using advanced information and communication (ICT) technology can produce high-quality crops in a stable environment while decreasing the need for manual labor. The system collects a wide variety of environmental data and provides the precise cultivation control needed to produce high value-added crops; however, there are the problems of packet transmission errors in wireless sensor networks or system failure due to having the equipment in a hot and humid environment. In this paper, we propose a reliable wireless control system for hydroponic tomato cultivation using the 400 MHz wireless band and the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. The 400 MHz band, which is lower than the 2.4 GHz band, has good obstacle diffraction, and zero-data-loss communication is realized using the guaranteed time-slot method supported by the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. In addition, this system has fault tolerance and a self-healing function to recover from faults such as packet transmission failures due to deterioration of the wireless communication quality. In our basic experiments, the 400 MHz band wireless communication was not affected by the plants’ growth, and the packet error rate was less than that of the 2.4 GHz band. In summary, we achieved a real-time hydroponic liquid supply control with no data loss by applying a 400 MHz band WSN to hydroponic tomato cultivation.
Highlights
Numerous kinds of sensors are being developed for many different applications, and many sensor-based control systems for agriculture have been implemented taking advantage of advances in information and communication technology (ICT) [1,2,3,4]
We propose a highly reliable wireless control system for hydroponic tomato cultivation
The 400 MHz band with the method of IEEE 802.15.6 standard is suitable packet loss occurred from 21 May 2015 to 31 May 2015 when the packet error rate (PER) is over 4 percent
Summary
Numerous kinds of sensors are being developed for many different applications, and many sensor-based control systems for agriculture have been implemented taking advantage of advances in information and communication technology (ICT) [1,2,3,4]. WSNs for agricultural applications generally use ZigBee [16], which is based on the layers specified in the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless communication standard. This is because ZigBee has low power consumption and is easy to operate. We implemented a system prototype that can be reliably controlled using the 400 MHz band and IEEE 802.15.6 standard This system has high fault tolerance and self-healing capability in response to faults. We considered whether the wireless communication is affected by the plants
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