caa a22 4500 445864753 CHVBK 20180317145454.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11119-010-9178-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11119-010-9178-1 Design and validation of a wireless sensor network architecture for precision horticulture applications [Elektronische Daten] [Juan López, Antonio-Javier Garcia-Sanchez, F. Soto, A. Iborra, Felipe Garcia-Sanchez, Joan Garcia-Haro] This paper proposes a general wireless sensor network architecture for monitoring horticultural crops that are distributed among small plots scattered at distances of up to 10km from one another. The technology used for the real implementation of the architecture is based on the B-MAC (Berkeley Medium Access Control) medium access protocol to assure a high degree of sensor node power autonomy. To resolve this issue, a series of specialized sensor nodes (Soil-Mote, Environmental-Mote and Water-Mote) have been developed along with a gateway to interconnect them with the farm central offices. Before starting device development, simulations were conducted to ensure that acceptable performance would be achieved with the selected technology in terms of node autonomy, achieved throughput and delays. To that end, it was necessary to implement the selected B-MAC protocol in the ns-2 (Network Simulator-2) simulation framework. The final system was deployed on a real crop to check and validate the simulation results against experimental results. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Wireless sensor networks nationallicence ns-2 simulator nationallicence Precision horticulture nationallicence López Juan Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, 30202, Cartagena, Spain aut Garcia-Sanchez Antonio-Javier Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, 30202, Cartagena, Spain aut Soto F. Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, 30202, Cartagena, Spain aut Iborra A. Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, 30202, Cartagena, Spain aut Garcia-Sanchez Felipe Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, 30202, Cartagena, Spain aut Garcia-Haro Joan Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, 30202, Cartagena, Spain aut Precision Agriculture Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 12/2(2011-04-01), 280-295 1385-2256 12:2<280 2011 12 11119 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-010-9178-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11119-010-9178-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- López Juan Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, 30202, Cartagena, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Garcia-Sanchez Antonio-Javier Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, 30202, Cartagena, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Soto F. Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, 30202, Cartagena, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Iborra A. Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, 30202, Cartagena, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Garcia-Sanchez Felipe Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, 30202, Cartagena, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Garcia-Haro Joan Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, 30202, Cartagena, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Precision Agriculture Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 12/2(2011-04-01), 280-295 1385-2256 12:2<280 2011 12 11119 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer