A OpenThread WSN Prototype for the Monitoring of Crops

Wireless sensor networks can be an low-cost and efficient solution for monitoring environmental parameters in agriculture. In this work, we analyze the potentialities of using a network based on a general purpose internet of things protocol as OpenThread. The aim of this paper is to test and verify the platform functionalities during the monitoring of environmental parameters such as: temperature, relative humidity, visible and infrared irradiance in a real environment.