Title :
Field Server Monitoring System for Construction of IT Farming and Agri-tourism - Trial Report from Obuse-town, Nagano Japan
Author :
Saito, Yasunori ; Suzuki, Takanobu ; Kobayashi, Kin-ichi ; Sato, Katsuharu ; Hirafuji, Masayuki ; Fukatsu, Tokihiro ; Ichimura, Ryozo ; Yashiro, Ryoichi ; Takeuchi, Setsuo ; Yuasa, Kazuhiko ; Watanabe, Sumio ; Kobayashi, Fumitoshi ; Kawahara, Toshio ; Kam
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng., Shinshu Univ., Nagano
Abstract :
A new agricultural farming and management system is proposed, which is based on real time field monitoring of agricultural related information using a Field Server. The Field Server monitoring network system was developed at a vine yard at Obuse-town in Nagano, Japan. Data of environmental condition (solar-radiation, temperature, relative humidity, and soil moisture) and growth information (leaf and branch shapes, blooming, fruiting and size) were automatically collected by the Field Server and transferred to a personal computer inside a house through a wireless LAN which could connect the two places at a distance of about 300 m. These information are used not only for farming, but also for agri-tourism that is one of strategies for the Obuse´s agricultural industry with sustainable development. Some ideas are also proposed for the data use
Keywords :
agriculture; wireless LAN; IT agricultural farming; agri-tourism; agricultural industry; field server network monitoring system; information technology; wireless LAN; Computerized monitoring; Humidity; Microcomputers; Network servers; Real time systems; Shape; Soil moisture; Sustainable development; Temperature; Wireless LAN; Field Server; IT farming; Obuse-town; agri-tourism; agriculture; environment; farming and management; field monitoring; growth information; real time monitoring; wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
SICE-ICASE, 2006. International Joint Conference
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
89-950038-4-7
Electronic_ISBN :
89-950038-5-5
DOI :
10.1109/SICE.2006.314605
