Sensors 2010, 10(10), 8963-8980; doi:10.3390/s101008963
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A Monitoring System for Vegetable Greenhouses based on a Wireless Sensor Network

Xiu-hong Li 1,2,* email, Xiao Cheng 1,2,* email, Ke Yan 2 email and Peng Gong 2 email
1 College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Xinjiekouwai Street No.19, Beijing, 100875, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University, P.O.BOX 9718, Beijing, 100101, China
* Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 28 July 2010; in revised form: 25 September 2010 / Accepted: 27 September 2010 / Published: 8 October 2010
(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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Abstract: A wireless sensor network-based automatic monitoring system is designed for monitoring the life conditions of greenhouse vegetatables. The complete system architecture includes a group of sensor nodes, a base station, and an internet data center. For the design of wireless sensor node, the JN5139 micro-processor is adopted as the core component and the Zigbee protocol is used for wireless communication between nodes. With an ARM7 microprocessor and embedded ZKOS operating system, a proprietary gateway node is developed to achieve data influx, screen display, system configuration and GPRS based remote data forwarding. Through a Client/Server mode the management software for remote data center achieves real-time data distribution and time-series analysis. Besides, a GSM-short-message-based interface is developed for sending real-time environmental measurements, and for alarming when a measurement is beyond some pre-defined threshold. The whole system has been tested for over one year and satisfactory results have been observed, which indicate that this system is very useful for greenhouse environment monitoring.
Keywords: wireless sensor network; embedded operating system; environment monitoring; data center; base station

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Li, X.-H.; Cheng, X.; Yan, K.; Gong, P. A Monitoring System for Vegetable Greenhouses based on a Wireless Sensor Network. Sensors 2010, 10, 8963-8980.

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Li X-H, Cheng X, Yan K, Gong P. A Monitoring System for Vegetable Greenhouses based on a Wireless Sensor Network. Sensors. 2010; 10(10):8963-8980.

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Li, Xiu-hong; Cheng, Xiao; Yan, Ke; Gong, Peng. 2010. "A Monitoring System for Vegetable Greenhouses based on a Wireless Sensor Network." Sensors 10, no. 10: 8963-8980.

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