This article treats the issue of remote monitoring and control of greenhouse environment through a distributed system that interconnects several subsystems. Thus, a wireless data acquisition subsystem, a fully automated subsystem made of PLCs and industrial communication networks and an irrigation subsystem consists of two water tanks, sensors and actuators are interconnected. According to data...

Accurate estimates of daily crop evapotranspiration (ET) are needed for efficient irrigation management in regions where crop water demand exceeds rainfall. Daily grass or alfalfa reference ET values and crop coefficients are widely used to estimate crop water demand. Inaccurate reference ET estimates can hence have a tremendous impact on irrigation costs and the demands on freshwater resources...

Fast growing technology of wireless sensor networks (WSN) is an advantage to the agriculture sector. Modern advances in the development of WSN offer new trends like Precision Agriculture (PA). This paper presents Fuzzy Logic Based Intelligent Irrigation Control System by employing WSN for PA. In the proposed system the irrigation controller normalizes the desired moisture level in the agricultu...

In order to resolve the problems which include loss of soil fertility and waste of water resource in agriculture production, we design an intelligent irrigation system based on wireless sensor networks and fuzzy control. The system mainly consists of wireless sensor networks and the monitoring center. All of the nodes in Monitoring area use solar power, collect the information of soil moisture,...

The determination of water application parameters for creating an optimal soil moisture profile represents a complex nonlinear optimization problem which renders traditional optimization into a cumbersome procedure. For this reason, an alternative methodology is proposed which combines a numerical subsurface flow model and artificial neural networks ~ANN! for solving the problem in two, fully s...