PANSY: a Portable Autonomous Irrigation System
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Generally, crop in a greenhouse environment is extremely sensitive and responds negatively to even the slightest of climatic changes. As such, an automated system of irrigation is ideal. Deployed effectively, intelligent wireless sensors can efficiently control the environment and irrigate as necessary. Smart wireless sensors provide an avenue to dynamically control the environment with little or no human intervention. In this paper, we introduce a wireless networked sensor system, PANSY, which intends to make crop irrigation efficient and labor un-intensive. PANSY effectively monitors the temperature, humidity, and soil moisture of a certain crop and its surroundings. If desired, sensors can monitor every plant in the greenhouse far more rapidly than traditional techniques, namely, human labor. In addition, each sensor can be calibrated to the specifications of a certain crop making the system universally useful. Such a system promotes highly accurate inventories, simple species location, and the elimination of pot bar codes. More specifically, PANSY provides a portable autonomous irrigation system. Experimental results confirm both PANSY’s potential and current ability to produce crops equivalent to those produced by a
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