Wireless sensor network coverage measurement and planning in mixed crop farming

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 105, Issue , 2014, Pages 83-94

  Ndzi, David L ^a   Harun, Azizi ^b   Ramli, Fitri M ^b   Kamarudin, Munirah L ^b   Zakaria, Ammar ^b   Shakaff, Ali Yeon Md ^b   Jaafar, Mahmad N ^b   Zhou, Shikun ^a   Farook, Rohani S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Asymmetric channel; Energy consumption; Precision agriculture; RSSI; Wireless sensor network; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANTENNAS; CROPS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSOR NODES; VEGETATION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; ZIGBEE;

ASYMMETRIC CHANNEL; DEPLOYMENT MODELS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION MODEL; LOW POWER WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; NETWORK DEPLOYMENT; NETWORK LIFETIME; RSSI; VEGETATION ATTENUATIONS;

LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; ENERGY USE; MIXED FARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SENSOR; VEGETATION;

EID: 84900795733     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2014.04.012     Document Type: Article

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