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A WSN Testbed to Enhance Irrigation Techniques Using a Novel Event-Based Routing Protocol

Authors:
Maher Al Rantisi
Glenford Mapp
Orhan Gemikonakli

Keywords: wireless sensor networks; reactivity; reliability; soil moisture; rainfall

Abstract:
Abstract— Due to rapid changes in climatic conditions worldwide, environmental monitoring has become one of the greatest concerns in the last few years. With the advancement in wireless sensing technology, it is now possible to monitor and track fine-grained changes in harsh outdoor environments. Wireless sensor networks (WSN) provide very high quality and accurate analysis for monitoring of both spatial and temporal data, thus providing the opportunity to monitor harsh outdoor environments. However, to deploy and maintain a WSN in such harsh environments is a great challenge for researchers and scientists. Several routing protocols exist for data dissemination and power management but they suffer from various disadvantages. In our case study, there are very limited water resources in the Middle East, hence soil moisture measurements must be taken into account to manage irrigation and аgriculturаl projects. In order to meet these challenges, a WSN that supports a robust, reactive, event-based routing protocol is developed using Ad hoc On-Demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV) as a starting point. A prototype WSN network of 5 nodes is built and a detailed simulation of 30 nodes is also developed to test the scalability of the new system.

Pages: 41 to 50

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: July 23, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4219

ISBN: 978-1-61208-572-2

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 23, 2017 to July 27, 2017