Application of Wireless Sensor Networks for Digital Agriculture

Abstract

Modern precision and digital agriculture for efficiency increasing requires development and implementation of new information and communication technologies, including wireless ones. The authors developed wireless sensor network (WSN) for express-diagnostics of agricultural plants' state, created the appropriate hardware, software and methodological support. The developed network now is implemented and under field tests both in open agricultural lands and in smart greenhouses. The main contribution of this paper is the design and fast-prototyping of WSN, taking into account the requirements of application task concerning field usage, long time of autonomous operation and measuring environmental parameters. That caused modeling of developed network to estimate its parameters before practical realization.