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Environmental Monitoring Systems and Sensors systems have increased in importance over the years. However, increases in measurement points mean increases in installation and maintenance cost. Not to mention, the measurement points once they have been built and installed, can be tedious to relocate in the future. Surely, with the technology of today, there is a better way to overcome this problem. The chapter will present the development work of a Wi-Fi based Smart Wireless Sensor Network for monitoring an Agricultural Environment. The system is capable of intelligently monitoring agricultural conditions in a pre-programmed manner. The system consists of three stations: Sensor Node, Router, and Server. The system is designed for monitoring of the climate condition in an agricultural environment such as field or greenhouse, the sensor station is equipped with several sensor elements such as Temperature, humidity, light, air pressure, soil moisture and water level. In addition investigation was performed in order to integrate a novel planar electromagnetic sensor for nitrate detection. The communication between the sensor node and the server is achieved via 802.11g wireless modules.
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Mendez, G.R., Mukhopadhyay, S.C. (2013). A Wi-Fi Based Smart Wireless Sensor Network for an Agricultural Environment. In: Mukhopadhyay, S., Jiang, JA. (eds) Wireless Sensor Networks and Ecological Monitoring. Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36365-8_10
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