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A Real-Time, Wireless Pressure Monitoring System for Bucking Bulls

Authors :
Siyu Li
Hongju Gao
Ning Wang
Shujie Pang
Source :
Procedia Engineering. 29:2809-2813
Publication Year :
2012
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2012.

Abstract

To evaluate the animal welfare, many ranchers would like to know the pressure on the animals due to the holsters and ropes. In this paper, a wireless real-time pressure monitoring system was designed based on wireless sensor network. The system consists of several pressure sensor nodes and a sink to coordinate the whole network, collect data from pressure sensor nodes and send the data to PC. An ultra-thin pressure sensor was integrated in the smart moteplatform to form the pressure sensor node. TinyOS, an open-source operating system and nesC language, an extension to C were applied for programming. In the lab test, the result of sensor calibration shows it has a good linearity and the packet delivery rate test verify that the system could operate stably and reliably in a better acceptable link quality. For better presenting to users, an information monitoring interface was used based on MATLAB as a simple demonstration of the whole system.

Details

ISSN :
18777058
Volume :
29
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Procedia Engineering
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....dcc2eb9151bf361be66a230897c78053
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2012.01.395