{"title":"Solar powered wireless multi-sensor device for an irrigation system","authors":"N. Codreanu, G. Vărzaru, C. Ionescu","doi":"10.1109/ISSE.2014.6887641","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the design and experiments of a multi-sensor device for use in agriculture crop irrigation. The soil and environment parameters are determined by specific sensors under the supervision of a microcontroller and sent through wireless communication to a central unit. The novelty is the assembly of all the sensors on a single structure, together with the wireless communication circuitry to permit the power management of the electronics in order to allow an autonomous supplying from a solar cell in parallel with a Li-Ion accumulator. The design of the power source was done to assure a 3.3V voltage. The research work was firstly focused on soil parameters: moisture and temperature. The main experiments were performed in order to calibrate the method used for sensing the soil moisture.","PeriodicalId":375711,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2014 37th International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 2014 37th International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSE.2014.6887641","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The paper presents the design and experiments of a multi-sensor device for use in agriculture crop irrigation. The soil and environment parameters are determined by specific sensors under the supervision of a microcontroller and sent through wireless communication to a central unit. The novelty is the assembly of all the sensors on a single structure, together with the wireless communication circuitry to permit the power management of the electronics in order to allow an autonomous supplying from a solar cell in parallel with a Li-Ion accumulator. The design of the power source was done to assure a 3.3V voltage. The research work was firstly focused on soil parameters: moisture and temperature. The main experiments were performed in order to calibrate the method used for sensing the soil moisture.