28-11-2012, 06:29 PM
Precision Agriculture
Precision Agriculture.ppt (Size: 2.36 MB / Downloads: 79)
Changing Farm Environment
Merging and Consolidatiion
Run by corporations instead of families
Larger areas per farm
Increasing Global Competition
Proifits from crop quality as well as quantity
Costs and productivity improvement
More sophysticated machinery and equipment per farmer
Sustainable growth
Increasing Environmental Concerns
Land and environment conservation
Polution reduction
Natural disaster damage control
Precision Agriculture Solutions
Wireless integrated
Zero configuration
Location awareness
Wired, Bulky
User demanding
System Requirements
Low-cost, low-power, small size networking devices
unliscenced band
short distance per hop
low date rate
Sensor information data < 50 bps/zone
low mobility
Long Battery life (> 8 months)
Robust to environment variation
temperature, humidity, rain, wind, growing plants
User friendly
Minimal network set-up and configuration
Minimal network management