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A Real-Time, Wireless Pressure Monitoring System for Bucking Bulls
- Source :
- Procedia Engineering. 29:2809-2813
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2012.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Engineering
Network packet
business.industry
TinyOS
Node (networking)
Real-time computing
Poison control
General Medicine
Pressure sensor
animal welfare
wireless pressure sensor
real-time monitoring system
Key distribution in wireless sensor networks
Mobile wireless sensor network
nesC
business
Wireless sensor network
Simulation
Engineering(all)
Subjects
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