Distributed Sensor Actuator Network for Antarctic Plants Studies

This paper describes some problems related to design and implementation of a custom sensor actuator network, which is going be applied in the Antarctic studies. The article draws an extensive biological context, describes the details of a biological experiment to be taken and addresses issues related with the environmental and logistics condition in the Antarctic area. The rest of the article describes the design process under certain constrains that originates form the specific methodology and specific place. The case study terminates with a detailed description of a prototype of a generic scalable sensor actuator network based on CAN protocol and results of temperature and humidity data acquisition using contact and contact less sensors.