| Project Title | A Prototype Wireless Sensor Network for Precision Agriculture |
| Project PI | Prof.Dr. Sherine Abdelkader |
| Project Abstract | In the proposed system, the sensor nodes communicate with the network gateway wireless, and they can sense: temperature, atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, light intensity, and soil moisture. The system design takes into account, with respect to its hardware and firmware, saving the nodes' energy for increasing the network operational lifetime; also the solar energy harvesting is exploited to supply the nodes with energy and charge their batteries. The nodes are protected with suitable housing and carried on a stand away from the land where they can be susceptible to damage and other dangers. The housing and the carrying stand is designed to be easily deployed and mounted on the land and suitable for harsh environments can bear immersion in water, overcome obstacles by easily adjust the stand to different lengths, provides easy adjustment of the solar cell to the optimum tilt to angle it towards the sun to get the best of the solar harvesting unit. The system is an IoT system, therefore its gateway conveys the network data through the Internet to a server where the system's user interface resides and where the data is stored, processed, analyzed, displayed, and used for extracting results, producing reports, making conclusions, and producing alerts differ according to the user's role whether he is the system administrator, the farmer or the agronomist, or the lands manger. |
| Project Objectives | In view of the fact that agriculture is not far from modern technology and the world seeks to achieve sustainable development goals in the field of agriculture, and since precision agriculture is an important element in sustainability, the goal of the project is to design and implement a monitoring system for natural conditions affecting crops based on Wireless Sensor Network and Internet of Things technologies to be the basis for the application of modern technologies in the Egyptian agriculture. |
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| Project Beneficaries | The governmental agricultural lands and the owners of the private farms and |
