Importance Of Sensor Network For Environmental Monitoring And Greenhouse Control

The purpose of this assignment is to help you understand how research is conducted and reported in Information Technology related fields. You are asked to read a peer-reviewed article from a scholarly journal in the field of Advance Networking and Communication Systems. Articles of this type will typically report on original research or replications of previously conducted experiments, or they will be literature reviews in which the author(s) present the results of a literature search on a specific topic. In the latter case, the article will usually be a dissertation on the most current thinking on a specific topic.

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S.B. Prabhu, C.V. Dhasharathi, R. Prabhakaran, M.R. Kumar, S.W. Feroze, and S. Sophia. Environmental monitoring and greenhouse control by distributed sensor Network. International Journal of Advanced Networking and Applications, 5(5), p.2060, 2014.

The aim of this article is to understand the importance of advance networking and communication. With the implementation of advance networking environmental monitoring can be done. This also helps in providing proper greenhouse control with the use of distributed sensor network. A sensor is a small component that is used to determine the physical parameters associated with the environment. Sensors main job is to measure the parameters and transmit this measures via wireless medium or with the used of wired medium. This report has described the use of sensor in today’s generation and the role played by them in managing the applications. Sensor and the components related to them are termed as node in a wireless medium. Advance networking helps in proper transmission of data effectively without any loss [5]. This paper aims at discussing about the effect of using sensor network on environmental monitoring. The paper has discussed about the experimental setup that helps in successful use of environmental monitoring. This becomes essential to understand the effects that will be created with the aim of implementing the network on large scale. The paper has proposed a sensor network that can be implemented with less cost and also includes mitigation of the risks identified in the last models [3]. The report has described the important setup needed for greenhouse. This includes a proper a proper greenhouse environment, sensors, greenhouse, radiation, water and humidity, concentration of CO2.  

This report has presented a model for agriculture application with the use of sensor networks. The proposed model contains three main components, this are sensor network, gateway and base station. This helps in proper monitoring of the greenhouse and proper measures to control the effect of greenhouse. The proposed models helps to eradicate the drawbacks in the existing model. With the implementation of the new model it is observed that excellent improvement is observed within the sensing parameters [1]. The newly developed sensor network has implemented features like temperature sensor, humidity sensor, vibration sensor and temperature sensor. The data sensed gets processed with the use of micro controller and gets displayed in LCD display. The proposed model focuses on the doing ideal assessment based on plant type and culture. The parameters accomplished by wireless transmission helps in sharing the information to the remote monitoring station periodically. The sensed data is forwarded towards the gateway. Further this data gets forwarded to the monitoring base station. After all the assumptions made, it can be seen that the development seems to be better with the implementation of wireless sensor network technology as it offers real time data acquisition. While developing such an important technology it becomes equally important to evaluate the risks that are likely to be faced at the implementation time. The concept of greenhouse clearly indicates that it does not need much climatic parameters to be measured. With implementation of this expertise it will become easy to determine the climatic limitations with the use of sensor network [2]. This report ensures that with improved energy efficiency this mechanism can be implemented within the world of wireless network with the use of well-known energy effective circulated clustering mechanism.

Locating an Appropriate Article

The aim of this paper is to describe about the importance of having a sensor network. Sensor has the ability to translate physical and chemical readings collected from the environment into signals that can be calculated within a system. With the help of a multi sensor node the network is capable of sensing the several other magnitudes within the system. Wireless sensor is a better way of network architecture as it helps better detection for fire   and verification. According to D.Dardari et al. outdoor monitoring is one of the important factors while implementing a sensor network. For example one of the latest example of sensor nodes are great duck island. With the implementation of this networks environment monitoring becomes easy. The main benefit of sensor nodes is that it was able to sense temperature, humidity and barometric pressure. In addition to this array was set for monitoring the natural environment of birds and their related activities with the change on climate. In order to develop a proper sensors in the environment without harming the birds, it is important to track their actions. Thus motes were installed in birds burrow so that they can spot out the bird’s presence. With the help of sensor network the landsides can be predicted [4]. This helps in mitigating the problems that arises with the landslides. Apart from this forest fires are also recognized as a major cause that can affect the wild areas and human resources. Sensor clouds are the invention in technology that will help to monitor the health with the use of simple and wearable sensors. This will create a network that helps in easy communication among the patients and doctors. Moreover at emergency situation the patient will be able to get quick response from hospital. This will improve the health conditions. The paper has explained about the greenhouse setup. The important factors for this setup includes greenhouse environment. The greenhouse environment consist of plentiful parts with their own local climate [7]. With the implementation of wireless network one can implement proper communication range. Apart from this the concentration CO2 is also an essential factor for development of plant. This becomes important to develop an environment that will contribute towards the growth of the plant. However it is equally important to note that extreme level of carbon can turn the environment poisonous.

The proposed model aims at providing a solution to the existing models drawback. The model proposed currently is being developed on hardware after performing tests. The result of this implemented software was excellent. This was successfully able to detected environmental parameters and also produced control models. The transmission took place by wireless network was implemented with the use of a Zigbee module. This module helps in development of a module that can send information to remote monitoring station frequently [8]. For monitoring and controlling the planned variables of environment it becomes important to have actuators and sensors. This instruments has the capability for measuring and controlling the values with the greenhouse.  Basically the implementation of greenhouse control is done by determining the cost to a reference cost.

Overview of the Article

The proposed model has a sensor network with several nodes, a gateway and a base station. The information gets transmitted from sensor network to gateway and after that the information are transferred to base station for further modification. It is being observed that a huge amount of cost gets incorporated while implementing a wireless sensor network. Thus to implement the network within the budget it becomes necessary to work with sensor network. The data after sensing gets delivered to the gateway. From gateway the data gets forwarded to remote monitoring base station. The base station is basically located in remote area with a computer that is used for visualizing the details periodically and also helps in monitoring the details. The data are further carried out for performing actions. The control system are divided into distributed and centralized systems. In case of centralized system a single component has the capability to gather information and has the ability to process those data. Whereas in a distributed control system connections are built between information processing and nodes and are distributed among the other components of the system. The main advantage of having a distributed system is that it includes following features: expansion, reliability and flexibility. Flexibility helps in changing the procedures such as removing, adding components that impacts the basic operations. Reliability helps in minimizing the effect of failure [6]. That is component failure will affect the part of the structure. Expansion helps in including additional components without enormous changes in the system. However from this paper it can be concluded that using sensor networks in greenhouse will help to control and monitor the effects. With the usage of this technology in big scale will bring better growth for future. For the best energy conservation it becomes important to implement wireless sensor network in the real world for efficient working and better energy distribution among different nodes. This paper gives an idea regarding better way of managing the advanced networking and the way greenhouse can be controlled.

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