Title :
Deployment of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in automated irrigation management and scheduling systems: a review
Author :
Haule, Joseph ; Michael, Kisangiri
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun. Eng., Nelson Mandela Instn. of Sci. & Technol., Arusha, Tanzania
Abstract :
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) is an important and exciting technology with great potential for application in various fields including medicine, transportation, agriculture, industrial process control, global-scale environmental monitoring and precision agriculture. This paper reviews the application of WSN in automating irrigation management and rescheduling. Irrigation management and rescheduling based on WSN are potential solutions for optimum water management via automatic access to in-field soil moisture conditions and control of irrigation systems.
Keywords :
irrigation; scheduling; wireless sensor networks; WSN; automated irrigation management; in-field soil moisture conditions; irrigation rescheduling; irrigation scheduling systems; irrigation system control; water management; wireless sensor networks; Irrigation; Monitoring; Soil moisture; Telecommunications; Temperature sensors; Wireless sensor networks; Automation; Irrigation Scheduling; Irrigation management; Moisture sensor; Wireless Sensor Network;
Conference_Titel :
Science, Computing and Telecommunications (PACT), 2014 Pan African Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/SCAT.2014.7055144
