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Challenges in Developing a Wireless Sensor Network for an Agricultural Monitoring and Decision System

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Demand for food, efficient use of resources and the need for climate change adaptation are conflicting objectives of today’s agriculture. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) could help to balance these contradicting requirements. A decisive advantage of a WSN is that data can be obtained from the sensors at any time without the physical presence of farmers. But in addition to a large number of technical challenges, a major challenge is to monitor necessary parameters with a sufficiently high temporal and spatial resolution. The present work discusses those challenges as a case study. Furthermore, an approach to designing a WSN for sensor-assisted landscape monitoring is proposed, that aims to support small-scale real time acquisition of site-specific requirements. Continuous monitoring is intended to lay the foundation for agricultural management strategies to be adapted at any time using real-time information.

This work was supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under research grant number 031B0729C.

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Frohberg, M., Weidling, S., Langendoerfer, P. (2021). Challenges in Developing a Wireless Sensor Network for an Agricultural Monitoring and Decision System. In: Ghita, B., Shiaeles, S. (eds) Selected Papers from the 12th International Networking Conference. INC 2020. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 180. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64758-2_16

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