An Air-Ground Wireless Sensor Network for Crop Monitoring
Joao Ricardo Pereira Valente, David Sanz, Antonio Barrientos, Jaime del Cerro, Ángela Ribeiro, Cláudio Rossi · Sensors · 2011
This paper presents a collaborative system made up of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and an aerial robot, which is applied to real-time frost monitoring in vineyards. The core feature of our system is a dynamic mobile node carried by an aerial robot, which ensures communication between sparse clusters located at fragmented parcels and a base station. This system overcomes some limitations of the wireless networks in areas with such characteristics. The use of a dedicated communication channel enables data routing to/from unlimited distances.