Abstract
Recent technological developments allowed to envision the low-power (solar power) and low-cost (open hardware) sensor devices (Agrisens/FieldServer/Flux Tower/FieldTwitter) with multimode (ZigBee/WiFi/3G/WebGIS) information and communication technologies (ICTs), a model in which is christened as GeoSense. Integrating these multimode and multi-level communication systems with distributed ambient sensory network location-based service (LBS) is a challenging task, which could be a potential technology for monitoring various natural phenomena. This integrated model is introduced to provide and assist the rural stakeholders with real-time decision support system (DSS) with dynamic information and modeling services for precision agriculture through GeoSense cloud service. This GeoSense research has been experimented in semiarid tropics in India under Indo-Japan initiative on multi-disciplinary ICT program.
Highlights
information and communication technologies (ICTs) is playing an important role in all walks of life in the knowledge society, including the rural systems with the revolutionary IVR and mobile telephony;
An attempt has been made to integrate Geographical information and communication technologies (Geo-ICT) with multi-range WSN-based communication system, the model in which is christened as GeoSense, to provide and assist rural extension community with a real-time dynamic sensory information in OSC standards and modeling service
The short and longrange (WiFi-based FS/FlT/FT) communication systems were deployed in the test bed to collect location-specific weather/agriculture/environmental parameters in a realtime mode
Summary
ICT is playing an important role in all walks of life in the knowledge society, including the rural systems with the revolutionary IVR and mobile telephony; (aAQUA [1], esagu [2], and FAS [3]). Geographical information and communication technologies (Geo-ICT) (combination of GIS and ICT for location-based services and geocomputations for decision support) and sensor network (SN) (a proximal distributed sensing units pertaining to weather, crop and soil parameters under microclimatic conditions) are promising real-time information gathering and dissemination technologies towards developing solutions for majority of the agricultural processes through sensor web enablement. FieldServer in GeoSense system equipped with web camera, which will be helpful in monitoring the real-time/live pest/disease incidences/crop-quality/environmental conditions, whereas in the existing system one has to physically take the picture, send to the remote expert by various communication modes and analyze the situation The handheld devices such as Amprobe and weather tracker have been used to obtain the CO2 and wind speed/velocity and humidity parameters, respectively, in the existing systems, where as in GeoSense system, these parameters are collected through already embedded sensors
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
