Title :
Design of Wireless Water-Saving Irrigation System Based on Solar Energy
Author_Institution :
Huaxia Coll. Inf. Eng., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
A water-saving irrigation system is designed based on the wireless communication and solar energy technology. Using the ZigBee wireless sensor network collects the soil temperature and moisture information, and transmits the data to the remote monitoring control computer by the GPRS network. The administrator can monitor the soil parameters and control the irrigation on the remote computer according to the specific needs of plants. The sensor network is low power consumption and uses a lead-acid battery charged by the solar cell panel. In the water-scarce area, this system can be used broadly and to avoid waste of water resources.
Keywords :
Zigbee; irrigation; packet radio networks; solar cells; solar power; wireless sensor networks; GPRS network; ZigBee wireless sensor network; lead-acid battery; low power consumption; moisture information; remote monitoring control computer; soil temperature; solar cell panel; solar energy; wireless communication; wireless water-saving irrigation system; Batteries; Irrigation; Monitoring; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Control, Automation and Systems Engineering (CASE), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0859-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICCASE.2011.5997702