%0 Conference Paper
%A Zakaria, S.Z.
%A Aziz, A.A.
%A Drieberg, M.
%D 2017
%F scholars:8043
%I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
%K Energy utilization; Gateways (computer networks); IEEE Standards; Manufacture; Microwave measurement; Remote control; Robotics; Sensor nodes; Soil moisture; Topology; Wireless sensor networks, Communications standard; IRIS mote; Multi-hop topologies; Multihop networks; Network topology; Remote monitoring; Single-hop network; Soil moisture monitoring, Moisture control
%P 1-5
%R 10.1109/ROMA.2017.8231829
%T Multi-hop wireless sensor network for remote monitoring of soil moisture
%U https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/8043/
%V 2017-D
%X This paper presents a case study of wireless sensor network (WSN) system for remote soil moisture monitoring. The development of this system is driven by the needs for having realtime data collection and remote monitoring access capabilities which are lacking in the conventional soil monitoring techniques. Our proposed system is developed using commercially available IRIS motes based on the IEEE 802.15.4 communications standard. The surrounding humidity, temperature and soil moisture of the crops are gathered and transmitted to a gateway for further analysis. The users will be notified when the soil moisture falls below the optimum level and they can also observe the changes in the data remotely. We validate the system and investigate its performance with respect to the types of network topology. The link quality, RSSI, network lifetime and number of packet drops are measured for both single-hop and multi-hop topologies. The finding shows that the multi-hop network offers wider area coverage with strong link quality at the expense of higher energy consumption compared to the single-hop network. © 2017 IEEE.
%Z cited By 2; Conference of 3rd IEEE International Symposium in Robotics and Manufacturing Automation, ROMA 2017 ; Conference Date: 19 September 2017 Through 21 September 2017; Conference Code:134001