• DocumentCode
    1467236
  • Title

    Sprinklers and power lines

  • Author

    Wall, Richard W.

  • Author_Institution
    Idaho Univ., Moscow, ID, USA
  • Volume
    14
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    4/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    25
  • Lastpage
    29
  • Abstract
    Implementing precision agriculture for farm management requires improved sensing and control beyond that commonly used today. This article describes how existing power lines are being used to reduce implementation and operating costs for automating existing agricultural irrigation controls
  • Keywords
    agriculture; carrier transmission on power lines; power overhead lines; process control; telecontrol; water supply; agricultural irrigation automation; farm management; operating costs; power lines; precision agriculture; Chemicals; Communication system control; Crops; Distributed control; Irrigation; Peer to peer computing; Programmable control; Radio frequency; Thermal variables control; Valves;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer Applications in Power, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0895-0156
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/67.917582
  • Filename
    917582