Real-time monitoring of GPS-tracking tractor based on ZigBee multi-hop mesh network

Author

Watthanawisuth, N. ; Tongrod, N. ; Kerdcharoen, T. ; Tuantranont, A.

Author_Institution

Nanoelectron. & MEMS Lab., Nat. Electron. & Comput. Technol. Center (NECTEC), Pathumthani, Thailand

fYear

2010

Firstpage

580

Lastpage

583

Abstract

This research is a part of smart farm system in the framework of precision agriculture. The system was installed and tested over a year. The tractor tracking system employs the Global Positioning System (GPS) and ZigBee wireless network based on mesh topology to make the system communicate covering a large area. Router nodes are used for re-transmission of data in the network. A software was developed for acquiring data from tractor, storing data and displaying in real time on a web site.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; agricultural engineering; agricultural machinery; computerised monitoring; personal area networks; precision engineering; real-time systems; target tracking; telecommunication network topology; wireless mesh networks; GPS-tracking tractor; Global Positioning System; ZigBee multi-hop mesh network; ZigBee wireless network; mesh topology; precision agriculture; real-time monitoring; smart farm system; tractor tracking system; Agricultural machinery; Agriculture; Global Positioning System; Mesh networks; Monitoring; Network topology; Spread spectrum communication; System testing; Wireless mesh networks; ZigBee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering/Electronics Computer Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON), 2010 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5606-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5607-9

Type

conf

Filename

5491422