A Wireless Sensor Network for greenhouse climate monitoring

In the last years, the presence of WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) is spreading worldwide. The reason for this success is that they facilitate the creation of data acquisition networks minimizing the necessary wire infrastructure. However, the WSN distributed modules typically have high dependencies on their batteries consumption. In the other hand, event-based systems are spreading fastly day by day. This kind of system allows to perform asynchronous actions based on a schedule or rules. The WSN distributed modules allow to perform a process before transmitting the data. If a event-based algorithm is used to define when it is necessary to transmit the acquired data, transmissions could be minimized. In this way, modules energy consumption can be reduced, extending the battery life. Therefore, mixing both technologies improves the WSN autonomy. In this work, these ideas are performed and analyzed in the climate monitoring framework.