Development of electric fence management system using wireless network technology

Traditional electric fence has been helpful as a guard of crops. However, its system has some problems. It can be used only as a defense from animals, and it cannot notify the voltage which occasionally drops because of vines winding or weeds touching. Furthermore, the owners of the fence have to check the voltage but they cannot know it without going there. An electric fence management system we develop uses wireless communication, and it enables the owners to know the voltage and the state of the electric fence and monitor it from remote locations safely. Wireless communications is successful or not is an important factor in the system, many experiemntal trials of wireless communication using 2.4[GHz] band are conducted in hill and dale. This paper describes a demonstrative experiment in a mountainous region, and suggests an approach to resolve some problems.