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

fYear

2014

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

91

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Science, Computing and Telecommunications (PACT), 2014 Pan African Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCAT.2014.7055144

Filename

7055144