Title :
Capacitance-based wireless sensor mote for snail pest detection
Author :
Garcia-Lesta, D. ; Ferro, E. ; Brea, V.M. ; Lopez, P. ; Cabello, D. ; Iglesias, J. ; Castillejo, J.
Author_Institution :
Centro de Investig. en Tecnoloxias da Informacion (CiTIUS), Univ. of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Abstract :
Pests due to terrestrial mollusks cause serious damage, both economic and ecological, in various types of agricultural plantations. In this paper we develop a low cost capacitive sensor that wirelessly communicates with the base, to monitor the activity of land snails. Once implemented physically, it has been tested in a controlled miniplot with favorable results.
Keywords :
capacitance measurement; capacitive sensors; wireless sensor networks; agricultural plantation; capacitance-based wireless sensor mote; land snail activity monitoring; snail pest detection; terrestrial mollusk; wireless communication; Capacitance; Capacitive sensors; Copper; Electrodes; Electron tubes; Registers; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS), 2015 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Zadar
DOI :
10.1109/SAS.2015.7133586
