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Monitoring Drip Irrigation System Using Wireless Sensor Networks

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Advances in Network Systems (iNetSApp 2015)

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Recently, adopting an optimized irrigation system has become a necessity due to the lack of the world water resource. Moreover, many researchers have treated this issue to improve the irrigation system by coupling the novel technologies from the information and communication field with the agricultural practices. The Wireless Sensor and Actuators Networks (WSANs) present a great example of this fusion. In this paper, we present a model architecture for a drip irrigation system using the WSANs. Our model includes the soil moisture, temperature and pressure sensors to monitor the irrigation operations. Specifically, we study the case where a system malfunction occurs, as when the pipes burst or the emitters are blocked. Furthermore, we differentiate two main traffic levels for the information transmitted by the WSAN, and by using an adequate priority-based routing protocol, we can achieve high QoS performances for the priority information. We have performed extensive simulations through TOSSIM simulators. The results show that our solution gives better performances in terms of delay and packet delivery ratio. Also we have realized a real test-bed to investigate the effectiveness of our approach. The experimentation results show considerable gain compared to other state-of-the-art protocol.

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  1. Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

    I. Bennis & H. Fouchal

  2. Université Ibn Tofail, Kenitra, Morocco

    O. Zytoune

  3. Université Mohammed V Rabat, Rabat, Morocco

    D. Aboutajdine

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    Maciej Grzenda

  2. Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Al Azhar University, Luleå, Sweden

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  3. Military University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland

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    Jarosław Legierski

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Bennis, I., Fouchal, H., Zytoune, O., Aboutajdine, D. (2017). Monitoring Drip Irrigation System Using Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Grzenda, M., Awad, A., Furtak, J., Legierski , J. (eds) Advances in Network Systems . iNetSApp 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 461. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44354-6_17

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