Diseño de una red sensorial para la medición de variables en el crecimiento de un cultivo

Abstract

Nowadays, the World is experiencing a profound change thanks to technological advances which cover all sectors of industrial production. According to it, the development of the communication is not an exception. This kind of progress has made possible to shorten distances and to create different types of applications such as Smart Cities. Having in mind what mentioned above; the objective of this work allows to form a network model for the interchange the information from an agricultural sector. This network is known as a connection of sensors in a wireless way called WSN (Wireless Sensor Network). For this purpose, a type of agricultural crop was discriminated where the network was implemented with Arduino technology, whose materials are: soil air temperature and humidity sensors, data acquisition and expansion cards. In addition, this network is made up by five modules and every one of them is connected to these kinds of sensors. Likewise, each module is placed in a strategic place to carry out the respective measurement. All these data are collected in a central node that processes and sends them to the Internet network. Finally, the data already processed is hosted on a Web server, which allows the user to verify the real status of the crop in real time, and remotely. A noteworthy aspect of this system is that users can also activate a ventilation and irrigation control mechanism that are placed inside the crop.