RT Journal Article
T1 An Autonomous Wireless Device for Real-Time Monitoring of Water Needs
A1 Borrero Sánchez, Juan Diego
A1 Zabalo Torrejón, Alberto José
AB The agri-food sector is in constantly renewing, continuously demanding new systems thatfacilitate farmers´ work. Efficient agricultural practices are essential to increasing farm profitability,and reducing water consumption can be achieved by real-time monitoring of water needs. However,the prices of automatic systems for collecting data from several sources (soil and climate) are expensiveand their autonomy is very low. This paper presents a low-consumption solution using the Internetof Things (IoT) based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and long-range wide-area network(LoRaWAN) technologies. By means of low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) communication,a farmer can monitor the state of crops in real time thanks to a large number of sensors connectedwirelessly and distributed across the farm. The wireless sensor node developed, called BoXmote,exhibits very low power, since it has been optimized both in terms of hardware and software. Theresult is a higher degree of autonomy than commercial motes. This will allow the farmer to haveaccess to all of the information necessary to achieve an efficient irrigation management of his cropswith full autonomy.
PB MDPI
SN 1424-8220
YR 2020
FD 2020-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18272
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18272
LA eng
NO Borrero Sánchez, J. D., & Zabalo  Torrejón, A. (2020). An Autonomous Wireless Device for Real-Time Monitoring of Water Needs. Sensors, 20(7), 2078. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s20072078
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026