Wireless sensor networks and cloud computing integrated architecture for agricultural environment applications

Abstract

The integration of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), Cloud computing and Big Data technologies offer vast opportunities to solve many real-world problems. Nowadays, the need for agricultural environment applications are increasing simply because there is a high demand for precision agriculture and automation. Agricultural environment applications have become an important field of control, providing real-time system and communication with the physical world. The combination of WSN and Cloud computing agricultural environment application can collect and process large amount of data from the beginning until end of the process loop. This paper discusses the proposed WSN and Cloud computing integrated architecture, benefits and applications.