Design implementation of wireless multimedia sensor networks for dryland agriculture

Abstract

This study discusses the application of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology to specific dry land agriculture because it was founded in the Province of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and a small part of Maluku. Its uniqueness has become a comparative advantage for the regions, especially for the academics of the University of Nusa Cendana (Undana). In general, the use of WSN in agriculture is still basic, relying on analog and manual sensors to obtain information on land conditions and vegetation in the land. Also generally still using scalar data and not optimizing the use of multimedia data, especially data based on videos and images. The contribution and novelty of this research are: (a) The application of multi-sensor technology with the Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WMSN) will optimize various data from land conditions so that it is hoped that more analysis of monitoring data results is expected, precise and efficient; (b) The application of WMSN with Internet-of-Thing (IoT) will be applied to the dry land agriculture. This research produces a design for implementing WMSN technology on dry agricultural land which is expected to increase agricultural yields in the area.