Title
Combining Multi-Agent Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks for Monitoring Crop Irrigation.
Abstract
Monitoring mechanisms that ensure efficient crop growth are essential on many farms, especially in certain areas of the planet where water is scarce. Most farmers must assume the high cost of the required equipment in order to be able to streamline natural resources on their farms. Considering that many farmers cannot afford to install this equipment, it is necessary to look for more effective solutions that would be cheaper to implement. The objective of this study is to build virtual organizations of agents that can communicate between each other while monitoring crops. A low cost sensor architecture allows farmers to monitor and optimize the growth of their crops by streamlining the amount of resources the crops need at every moment. Since the hardware has limited processing and communication capabilities, our approach uses the PANGEA architecture to overcome this limitation. Specifically, we will design a system that is capable of collecting heterogeneous information from its environment, using sensors for temperature, solar radiation, humidity, pH, moisture and wind. A major outcome of our approach is that our solution is able to merge heterogeneous data from sensors and produce a response adapted to the context. In order to validate the proposed system, we present a case study in which farmers are provided with a tool that allows us to monitor the condition of crops on a TV screen using a low cost device.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3390/s17081775
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
ambient intelligence,wireless sensor,fuzzy logic,smart irrigation,virtual organizations of agents
Architecture,Ambient intelligence,Fuzzy logic,Electronic engineering,Multi-agent system,Natural resource,Engineering,Merge (version control),Wireless sensor network,Irrigation,Distributed computing,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
8.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.64
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gabriel Villarrubia118324.85
Juan Francisco de Paz239552.24
Daniel H De La Iglesia3110.64
Javier Bajo41451118.96