A new agriculture monitoring system based on WSNs

Recent developments in information technologies provide facility agriculture monitoring system a new perspective of networking and automation. This paper presents a new agriculture monitoring system based on WSNs (Wireless sensor networks) with IP cameras, which can be controlled remotely to have close vision of plants. WSNs can deploy freely, collect sensor data periodically to the control center, process and store historical data, which could facilitate clients and experts in agriculture to monitor the conditions in a large field. Traditional WSNs monitoring system only focused on environmental parameters, such as temperature and humility. We integrate video information and environmental data. Also the sleeping methods based on small-scale time synchronization and alarming mechanism of our system achieve better communication and less power consumption. Through experiments we validated the system in a greenhouse and outdoors fields in Hainan successfully.