Empirical test of Wi-Fi environment stability for smart farm platform

With world population growth, increasing agricultural production with a declining agricultural workforce has brought a new spotlight on agricultural ICT. As the cultivable land in South Korea is relatively small, farmers prefer the high productivity of greenhouse cultivation. In this case, labor efficiency can be achieved by developing an integrated smart platform to collect environmental information and control the greenhouse facility. This requires the construction of a network to transfer the sensed information to the control server and transfer commands from the control server to the control device. When installing a Wi-Fi communication network inside a greenhouse, verifying the communication stability is crucial. Therefore, this study measured the wireless communication transmission/reception ratio and confirmed that the communication distance varied according to the crop density.