Healthcare monitoring of mountaineers by low power Wireless Sensor Networks

Tea farming stands on a vast area. The quality and quantity of products enormously depend on the management and control of the environmental conditions of the tea farms. Feasible and continuous monitoring of the plantations’ parameters is needed to achieve the desired farm output. 50%-60% of the light intensity needs to be filtered on each tea plant throughout the year. Traditionally, shading is achieved by planting leguminous trees inside the farms. So it is extensively required to monitor the shading capacity continuously to overcome the degradation of the farm’s product. In this paper, a simple, sustainable shade management system is designed. The system is embedded with Atmega 2560 controller, and a wireless network has been achieved using the ZigBee module. A systematic array of LDRs acquires light Intensity. The measured parameters are wirelessly transmitted continuously to the central decision support system with associated information like locations, sensor values, etc. The proposed method is easily extensible and user-friendly.

A sustainable embedded shade management system for tea cultivation

To conserve the tea farming sector and to maintain the quality of the tea product an efficient system is in need to control and maintain the agricultural processes as well. In this paper, a systematic approach of an automation system for tea farming using ZIGBEE wireless networks has been implemented to monitor and control tea plantation in north east India. Embedded multi-sensing and actuator nodes are distributed around the farms and used to measure the parameters necessary in controlling agricultural process. Farm level information’s, combined with their positions information, are relayed to the centralized decision support system by the ZIGBEE wireless sensor networks. Accordingly, necessary control signal will generate and transmit, only at the targeted positions or area to control feedback action at time. The propose technology can broadly be applied into various area of tea plantation, viz. Irrigation management, pest management, fertilizer control, frost control, sunshine hour/intensity management etc. The user friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) has designed remembering that the framework will be utilized generally by the farmers. The approach, won’t just improve the efficiency, however will also reduce farm input cost and minimize environmental impacts.

O. P. Roy

Papers

A Systematic Approach on Design of Automation System for Tea Farming Based on Embedded Wireless Sensor Network