Applications of WSN in agricultural environment monitoring systems

The Wireless Sensors Network (WSN) is nowadays widely used to build decision support systems to solve many real-world problems. One of the most interesting fields having an increasing need of decision support systems is agricultural environment monitoring. Agricultural environment monitoring has become an important field of control and protection, providing real-time system and control communication with the physical world. An intelligent and smart WSN system can collect and process large amount of data from the beginning of the monitoring and manage air quality, soil conditions, to weather situations. The proposed system collects and monitors information related to the growth environment of crops outside and inside greenhouses using WSN sensors and CCTV cameras. The temperature and humidity sensors are developed in-house and both sensors are very reliable. Furthermore, the system allows automatic control of greenhouse environment remotely and thus improves the productivity of crops. This paper presents hardware architecture, system architecture and software process control of the agriculture environment monitoring system.