GAIA2: A multifunctional wireless device for enhancing crop management

Juan A. López, H. Navarro, F. Soto, N. Pavón, J. Suardíaz and R. Torres

Agricultural Water Management, 2015, vol. 151, issue C, 75-86

Abstract: Precision agriculture is a well-known approach that allows to estimate, evaluate and understand crop evolution. This paper describes how such approach is implemented by deploying a wireless sensor network, whose main components are based on the new multifunctional wireless sensor node GAIA2, a fully configurable device (from a hardware and software point of view), that can be properly configured with the aim of acting as any node required during the network deployment and that works with well-known agricultural instrumentation. Several validation tests carried out in real arid and semiarid horticultural crops located at Southern Spain (where the existing water deficit poses a major problem for farmers), demonstrates that it is easy and moderately inexpensive to deploy a GAIA2-based wireless sensor network that helps farmers to improve crop management.

Keywords: Agronomical instrumentation; WSNs; Crop management; Precision agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2014.10.023

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