Title
Technology-Assisted Decision Support System for Efficient Water Utilization: A Real-Time Testbed for Irrigation Using Wireless Sensor Networks.
Abstract
Scientific organizations and researchers are eager to apply recent technological advancements, such as sensors and actuators, in different application areas, including environmental monitoring, creation of intelligent buildings, and precision agriculture. Technology-assisted irrigation for agriculture is a major research innovation which eases the work of farmers and prevents water wastage. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are used as sensor nodes that directly interact with the physical environment and provide real-time data that are useful in identifying regions in need, particularly in agricultural fields. This paper presents an efficient methodology that employs WSN as a data collection tool and a decision support system (DSS). The proposed DSS can assist farmers in their manual irrigation procedures or automate irrigation activities. Water-deficient sites in both scenarios are identified by using soil moisture and environmental data sensors. However, the proposed system's accuracy is directly proportional to the accuracy of dynamic data generated by the deployed WSN. A simplified outlier-detection algorithm is thus presented and integrated with the proposed DSS to fine-tune the collected data prior to processing. The complexity of the algorithm is O(1) for dynamic datasets generated by sensor nodes and O(n) for static datasets. Different issues in technology-assisted irrigation management and their solutions are also addressed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2836185
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Crop irrigation,decision support system,outliers detection and correction,wireless sensor networks
Irrigation management,Data collection,Computer science,Decision support system,Testbed,Precision agriculture,Dynamic data,Environmental data,Wireless sensor network,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6
2169-3536
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rahim Khan1175.68
Ihsan Ali2176.82
Muhammad Zakarya37710.83
Ahmad M. Mustafa430.43
Muhammad Imran5848.01
Muhammad Shoaib6126388.37