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Abstract

The advent of Internet of Things has propelled the agricultural domain through the integration of sensory devices, capable of monitoring and wirelessly propagating information to producers; thus, they employ Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). These WSNs allow real time monitoring, enabling intelligent decision-making to maximize yields and minimize cost. Designing and deploying a WSN is a challenging and multivariate task, dependent on the considered environment. For example, a need for network synchronization arises in such networks to correlate acquired measurements. This work focuses on the design and installation of a WSN that is capable of facilitating the sensing aspects of smart and precision agriculture applications. A system is designed and implemented to address specific design requirements that are brought about by the considered environment. A simple synchronization scheme is described to provide time-correlated measurements using the sink node’s clock as reference. The proposed system was installed on an olive grove to assess its effectiveness in providing a low-cost system, capable of acquiring synchronized measurements. The obtained results indicate the system’s overall effectiveness, revealing a small but expected difference in the acquired measurements’ time correlation, caused mostly by serial transmission delays, while yielding a plethora of relevant environmental conditions.

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Title
Wireless Sensor Network Synchronization for Precision Agriculture Applications
Author
Zervopoulos, Alexandros  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Tsipis, Athanasios  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Alvanou, Aikaterini Georgia  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bezas, Konstantinos  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Papamichail, Asterios  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Vergis, Spiridon  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Stylidou, Andreana  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Tsoumanis, Georgios  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Komianos, Vasileios  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Koufoudakis, George  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Oikonomou, Konstantinos  VIAFID ORCID Logo 
First page
89
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20770472
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2384082712
Copyright
© 2020. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.