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Directional sensor placement in vegetable greenhouse for maximizing target coverage without occlusion

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Wireless sensor network (WSN) is the key sensing resource for the internet of things (IoT) in vegetable greenhouse. The coverage control ensures that WSN can obtain enough effective information. However, the current coverage researches ignore the object size and lack of attention to the occlusion between targets. There are many leaves and fruits in vegetables, which can easily cause blind area and low utilization of directional sensors. Based on the geometric relationship between the directional sensors and targets, this paper studies a non-occlusion coverage scheme for the greenhouse IoT. Firstly, combined with the traditional coverage theory, a directional coverage model without occlusion is constructed by analysing the multivariate relationship between the sensor nodes and monitored targets. An objective function is then established to maximize the effective coverage. Based on the directional coverage model, this paper studies a hierarchical cooperative particle swarm optimization algorithm, which decomposes the global effective coverage problem into the utilization optimization of each sensor and finally get the orientation angle set. The experimental results show that the studied model and algorithm can avoid occlusion between covered objects while improving sensor utilization to a certain degree.

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Acknowledgements

This research was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant Number 61871041, Technical System of National Bulk Vegetable Industry, Grant Number CARS-23-C06, and National Key Research and Development Program of China, Grant Number 2019YFD1101105.

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  1. National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, 11 Shuguang Huayuan Middle Rd, Beijing, 100097, China

    Huarui Wu, Qingxue Li, Huaji Zhu, Xiao Han & Baozhu Yang

  2. Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, 11 Shuguang Huayuan Middle Rd, Beijing, 100097, China

    Huarui Wu, Qingxue Li, Huaji Zhu, Xiao Han & Baozhu Yang

  3. Key Laboratory of Agri-informatics, Ministry of Agriculture, 11 Shuguang Huayuan Middle Rd, Beijing, 100097, China

    Huarui Wu, Qingxue Li, Huaji Zhu, Xiao Han & Baozhu Yang

  4. Shijiazhuang Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, 479 Shengli North St, Shijiazhuang, 050041, China

    Yuling Li

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Wu, H., Li, Q., Zhu, H. et al. Directional sensor placement in vegetable greenhouse for maximizing target coverage without occlusion. Wireless Netw 26, 4677–4687 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-020-02370-8

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