Development of Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks Protocol for Precision Agriculture

To meet the flaws associated with the traditional precision agriculture such as poor real-time data acquisition, smaller monitoring area, excessive manpower requirement, wireless sensor network (WSN) based precision agriculture has come into play. Proper agricultural practices result in good yield. These agricultural practices include varying crops and crop production techniques under different conditions. These conditions include soil moisture content, soil texture, etc. . A Wireless Sensor Network is established with sensor nodes buried inside the soil to transmit the sensed data to the sink node or base station. Existing protocols are studied for their possibility for implementation into precision agriculture in this paper. A new protocol is proposed that aims to enhance the network life time by reducing the per node energy consumption and maintain balance between energy consumption and energy disparity.