Development of a mote for horticulture based on the SDI-12 standard

Author

Lopez, Jesus A. ; Soto, F. ; Suardiaz, J. ; Sanchez, P. ; Iborra, A. ; Vera, J.A.

Author_Institution

DSIE, Univ. Politec. de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

2630

Lastpage

2635

Abstract

GAIA is a new kind of mote specially designed for horticultural farming. It is based on the SDI-12 standard, which allows the connection of the mote to a large number of agricultural instrumentation. The mote is built around a 16-bit Msp430f1611 micro-controller operating at a clock frequency of 32 MHz and accessing up to 10 KB of on-chip RAM. Wireless communication is achieved by the Chipcon CC2420 radio, which operates in the 2.4 GHz ISM band, and is compliant with the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. This mote was developed to monitor broccoli crops situated on a farm in South-East Spain. This paper shows the main requirements from which the design was developed. Its associated hardware architecture and software platform are presented. Finally, some test results obtained from the final system are presented.

Keywords

crops; horticulture; microcontrollers; Chipcon CC2420 radio; GAIA; IEEE 802.15.4 standard; Msp430f1611 microcontroller; SDI-12 standard; broccoli crops; horticultural farming; horticulture mote; Clocks; Communication standards; Computer architecture; Crops; Frequency; Hardware; Instruments; Monitoring; Standards development; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2009. IECON '09. 35th Annual Conference of IEEE

Conference_Location

Porto

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4648-3

Electronic_ISBN

1553-572X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2009.5415260

Filename

5415260