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Closed-loop drip irrigation control using a hybrid wireless sensor and actuator network

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In this research, a closed-loop drip irrigation control hybrid wireless sensor and actuator network (HWSAN) prototype were developed and deployed in a crop field for soil property precise measurement and precision irrigation in accordance with the measured soil property. The HWSAN was composed of a wireless sensor and actuator network (WSAN) used for in-field soil property monitoring and irrigation control and a laboratory supervising system. The WSAN included ten sensor nodes, five irrigation control nodes, a central node, a gateway and a cellular modem. The laboratory supervising system was formed by a web-server. The system could automatically sample soil properties including soil moisture, electrical conductivity, and nearsurface temperature at four different depths underground and transmit field data through cellular network to the web-server. Closed-loop control was achieved through the control nodes listening uploading packets from its paired sensor nodes to control drip irrigation. Results from the quality of service (QoS) evaluation included: the data packet transmission rate was 84.76%, data accuracy rate was greater than 97% and no in-field data transmission errors.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Key Technology on Agricultural Machinery and Equipment of South China Agricultural University, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, 510642, China

    Zhen Li, TianSheng Hong & JiaNian Li

  2. Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA

    Zhen Li, Ning Wang & Aaron Franzen

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Li, Z., Wang, N., Hong, T. et al. Closed-loop drip irrigation control using a hybrid wireless sensor and actuator network. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 54, 577–588 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-010-4086-6

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