GREENHOUSE MONITORING APPLICATIONS: TDMA BASED MAC PROTOCOL FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT WSN.
Raju Bhowmik, Ajita Pathak · International Journal of Advanced Research · 2017
Modern greenhouse environment monitoring application require wireless sensor nodes to monitor the parameters like temperature, humidity, soil moisture etc.These sensor nodes are embedded with limited power backup and equipped with limited computing and radio communication capabilities.Therefore it is necessary to reduce the energy consumption of these nodes and requirement of power efficient routing protocols arises.When a proper energy efficient protocol is applied to the wireless sensor network, the power consumption of these nodes can be reduced.In order to fulfill this purpose we have simulated the WSN model using QualNet with the help of AODV routing protocol and Time Division Multiplexing Access (TDMA) based MAC protocol, which is energy efficient as compared to other existing protocols.