VLITE NODE – SOLUTION for PRECISION FARMING2

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In past years in world an extensive research and development work is being done to ensure information technology use in agriculture; long range wireless sensor network (WSN) creation for specific agricultural use. Existing WSN solutions are in experimental development phase; their implementations is not possible without the specific WSN technology developers’ assistance and they have a short working range (ability to guarantee communication between sensors only at a range of several tens of meters); therefore their implementation in large area is very expensive. Realistic WSN implementation is unthinkable without specific WSN technology that includes physical nodes, sensors, operating system, application programming environment, competence centre support. The paper describes new long distance RFID based technology implementation - VLIT NODE.

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VLIT NODESOLUTION FOR PRECISION FARMING

Karel CHARVAT, Zbynek KRIVANEK, Marek MUSIL, Jan JEZEK

Objective

Collection of agro meteorological information VLIT node technology VLIT node as concentrator MORT gateway Database Web Interfaces Visualisation

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Collection of agro meteorological information The importance of meteorology in agriculture has

been increasing due rapid weather conditions changes

To meet the farmers ambitions, especially in areas where parcels are relatively small involving the growth of “expensive” cultivars, there is the need of establishing networks of local sensors and meteorological stations.

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Collection of agro meteorological information

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Collection of agro meteorological information

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Collection of agro meteorological information

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VLIT requirements

Very low complexity elementary sensors, associated with a low power consumption and low-cost;

High reliability of the decision /estimation/ measurement of the network as a whole;

Long network life-time for low maintenance and stand-alone operation;

High scalability;

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VLIT technology

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VLIT technology

Working frequency - 868.0 – 868.6 MHz Distance between nodes - In the line-of-sight: at

least 200m in any weather conditions, at least 800 m in ideal weather conditions

Communication support - At least Point-to-point, Point-to-multipoint, multi – hopping

Technology supports - wireless networking (with corresponding operating system), data collection, data processing at least on calculation of simple operations level, data transmission

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VLIT technology

Battery Lifetime of Node - 6 months – 5 years (depending on battery size and type of communication)

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VLIT NODE as concentrator

At least one node in network must act as so called “concentrator”. This node collects all data from network and forwards them to the upstanding system (RS485 bus).

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Vlit node as concentrator

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MORT gateway

Gateway is small computer kit based on modules compatible with industrial standard PC104

In the case, gateway consists of power board (powering of other boards, battery handling), processor board (AVR Atmega with sram memory, flash), GPRS modem board (optionally with GPS module) and RS485 expansion board

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MORT gateway

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Database

For main data storage Postgres with PostGIS relation database management system is used.

Important tables: units sensors Phenomenon's Observations alert events alerts

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Database

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Web services

Metadata about sensor network There are important information about topology of sensor

network, positions of particular sensors, types of sensors and observed phenomenons, accuracy and frequency of measurement.

Observed values From metadata users can choose what set of values are

required. By using proper service observed values can be requested. Such request can be parameterized by time period, location, phenomenon etc. There is also possible to define the output format (e.g. xml, json, csv, chart raster file)

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WEB services

The operations of the SOS are separated in four profiles: core profile – three basic operations that shall be

provided by every SOS implementation transactional profile – operations to register new

sensors and insert their observations into SOS enhanced profile – additional optional operations for

getting observations or feature of interests by special parameters or for getting schemas of types or models.

entire profile – implements all operations

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Visualisation

HSLayers (Help Service + OpenLayers) combines capabilities of ExtJS and OpenLayers and several helping scripts to establish truly Web GIS applications. Development started in 2007. In 2009, after 2 years of development, it was released under conditions of GNU General Public License 3.

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Visualisation

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Visualisation

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Acknowledgement

VLIT NODE - the solution was achieved with financial support from state resources provided by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic for support of project of the program “TIP-2009” with registration number FR—TI1/523.

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Thank you for your attention

www.ccss.cz

charvat@ccss.cz

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