WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSN) FOR GREENHOUSE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING

Abstract

Traditionally, agriculture has been used as a manual method to carry out the production process. However, technology is advancing and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) gain an increasing interest and has got importance in many applications that involve remote monitoring and control. So to find a technological alternative which allow functional and efficient management of greenhouse, a special kind of system of WSN is deployed. Monitoring of various parameters like temperature, humidity and soil moisture is an important issue for many crops like tomato, cucumber, capsicum etc. The data collection, monitoring and connected hardware to the crops allows for higher yields and lower cost, with less impact to the environment. A very important issue related to the use of WSNs is an energy source for wireless sensor nodes. Battery energy source can be deployed to provide power supply to these wireless sensor nodes. The wireless sensor nodes are responsible for a measurement of temperature, humidity and soil moisture parameters and sending this acquired data to network coordinator i.e. master node. The coordinator will be microcontroller with ZigBee module. The network coordinator node is responsible for reception of measured data from wireless sensor nodes and data transmission to the computer or mobile devices.