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A Wireless Sensor Network for Growth Environment Measurement and Multi-Band Optical Sensing to Diagnose Tree Vigor
- Source :
- Sensors, Vol 17, Iss 5, p 966 (2017), Sensors; Volume 17; Issue 5; Pages: 966, Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2017.
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Abstract
- We have tried to develop the guidance system for farmers to cultivate using various phenological indices. As the sensing part of this system, we deployed a new Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). This system uses the 920 MHz radio wave based on the Wireless Smart Utility Network that enables long-range wireless communication. In addition, the data acquired by the WSN were standardized for the advanced web service interoperability. By using these standardized data, we can create a web service that offers various kinds of phenological indices as secondary information to the farmers in the field. We have also established the field management system using thermal image, fluorescent and X-ray fluorescent methods, which enable the nondestructive, chemical-free, simple, and rapid measurement of fruits or trees. We can get the information about the transpiration of plants through a thermal image. The fluorescence sensor gives us information, such as nitrate balance index (NBI), that shows the nitrate balance inside the leaf, chlorophyll content, flavonol content and anthocyanin content. These methods allow one to quickly check the health of trees and find ways to improve the tree vigor of weak ones. Furthermore, the fluorescent x-ray sensor has the possibility to quantify the loss of minerals necessary for fruit growth.
- Subjects :
- Engineering
Radio Waves
Interoperability
Real-time computing
02 engineering and technology
thermal image
computer.software_genre
lcsh:Chemical technology
01 natural sciences
Biochemistry
Article
Field (computer science)
Trees
Analytical Chemistry
Computer Communication Networks
wireless sensor network (WSN)
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Wireless
lcsh:TP1-1185
Wi-SUN
vine
mandarin orange
fluorescent measurement
X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Instrumentation
Remote sensing
SIMPLE (military communications protocol)
business.industry
010401 analytical chemistry
020206 networking & telecommunications
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
0104 chemical sciences
Tree (data structure)
Web service
Guidance system
business
Wireless Technology
Wireless sensor network
computer
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14248220
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sensors
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2cb1f38fd9e7750725a174a33253403d