Remote farm environment monitoring system based on embedded system and ZigBee technology

Nowadays aquaculture industry requires the real-time control on farm environmental parameters such as humidity, temperature and illumination intensity. This paper presented a remote system for farm environment monitoring which uses ZigBee technology, embedded system and network database. Except obtaining the monitoring function on farm humidity, temperature, light intensity and data query, the system also provides real-time warning for staff through setting the upper and lower limit value of various parameters, which is convenient for farm staff to implement the on-site or remote control on environmental parameters. The test result shows that our proposed system can obtain a cost-effective monitoring solution for farmers with perfect and stable performance.