Wireless Sensor Networks in Agriculture: Cattle Monitoring for Farming Industries
(0) This paper investigates an adaptation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to cattle monitoring application. The proposed solution facilitates a desired requirement of continuously assessing the condition of individual animal, aggregating and reporting these data to the farm manager. There are several existing approaches to animal monitoring, from using a store and forward mechanisms to employing a GSM technique. These approaches for monitoring livestock health can only provide sporadic information and introduce a considerable cost in staffing and physical hardware. The core of this study is to overcome the aforementioned drawbacks by using alternative low cost, low power consumption sensor nodes, which are capable of providing real-time communications at a reasonable hardware cost. In this paper, the hardware and software have been carefully designed to provide early indication of possible outbreaks while conforming to WSNs stringent limitations.
Kae Hsiang Kwong Tsung Ta Wu Hock Guan Goh Bruce Stephen Michacl Gilroy Craig Michie Ivan Andonovic
Centre for Intelligent Dynamic Communications,Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Strathclyde,Glasgow,United Kingdom
国际会议
Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2009(2009年电磁学研究新进展学术研讨会)(PIERS 2009)
北京
英文
1719-1723
2009-03-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）