Design of Wireless Sensor Network Based Embedded Systems for Aquaculture Environment Monitoring

摘要

This paper proposes an process/environmental parameters monitoring framework based on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) using embedded systems. The developed system will have many applications particularly in the area of aquaculture, tea plantations, vineyards, precision agriculture, green houses monitoring etc. The complexity of the system increases for applications involving aquaculture. The developed systems are tailored for sensing in wide farmland's without (or) very little human supervision. The fully designed and developed system consists of sensors for monitoring the parameters, sensor node with wireless network topology, gateway for collecting the information from the sensor node and transmitting the information to the central control unit. Data base, real-time monitoring and visualization facilities, controlling of sensor nodes and sensors are provided at the central control unit. Sensor nodes, sensor assembly and gateways should with stand demanding environmental conditions like rain, dust, heat, moisture, relative humidity etc. With these systems deployed in large farm's bodies the scientist's will have more and more field data with very little human intervention. The acquired data can be used to provide quantitative indications about the farm's status, thus easy for analysis and decision making. In this paper we are focusing our discussion about WSNs in the field of aquaculture.