Title: Design of remote control system for intelligent irrigation based on ZigBee and GPRS

Authors: Zhang Hongbo

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, Tangshan Normal College, Tangshan, Hebei 063000, China

Abstract: The sensor nodes of wireless sensor networks (WSNs)-based agricultural monitoring system are required to collect the environmental data periodically, including temperature and humidity, and additionally anytime monitoring shall be required to be realised among the monitored area with minimised quantity of sensor nodes. To meet the mentioned goal, a solar power-moving schedule of mobile-based optimal coverage (SPMSC) is proposed. In accordance with the content of SPMSC, every sensor node is able to obtain energy through the solar panel. The moving schedule of sensor nodes is determined through predicting the quantity of solar power as to realise the optimal coverage project with the minimised quantity of sensor nodes and the energy consumption. As the simulation result indicates, the proposed SPMSC, compared with other similar projects, has the 4% decrease of sensor node quantity and the 10% increase of the network lifetime.

Keywords: WSNs; wireless sensor networks; agricultural monitoring; intelligence algorithm; coverage; network lifetime; irrigation system.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISTA.2018.095101

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, 2018 Vol.17 No.4, pp.439 - 451

Received: 02 Jun 2017
Accepted: 12 Jul 2017
Published online: 01 Oct 2018 *

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