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The interconnection of smart objects embedded with sensors enables them to interact with the environment and among themselves, forming a Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network (WSAN). These network nodes perform acquisition, collection and analysis of data, such as temperature and soil moisture. Such data can be employed to automate the irrigation process in agriculture while decreasing water consumption, resulting in monetary and environmental benefits. The high storage and processing capabilities, the rapid elasticity and pay-per-use characteristics makes Cloud Computing an attractive solution to the large amount of data generated by the WSN. This work proposes and evaluates on a real deployment a cloud-based Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network communication system. This solution monitors and controls a set of sensors and actuators, respectively, and integrates it with information from external weather providers to assess plants water needs.

Sensors
Cloud
External Weather Service
Testbed - Deployments at a farm
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User Interface
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architecture
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Sponsor: SenseFinity SA and YDreamsRobotics SA
Sept. 2013 - Jan. 2016
CLOUD-BASED SMART IRRIGATION
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  • Weather station selection to the WSAN deployment location

  • API: data is fetched by a HTTP Request, returned in JSON format

  • Hourly forecast: high & low temperature, wind direction, humidity, PoP (Probability of Precipitation),…, for next 36 hours

  • PoP parameter gives the likelihood of precipitation to occur in a certain area. Used to estimate the best irrigation periods

Weather API: Wunderground online weather service

Row of peach trees - isolated drip irrigation system

actuator
buried in soil
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© 2016 Artur Arsenio

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