A Wireless Sensor Network Application for Real-Time Foehn Monitoring
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Tsai, Zhi-Yang
Abstract
Foehn is one of the common climate phenomena in Taiwan because of geographical factors. The foehn is associated with high temperature and low humidity, which often leads to plant death and even causes serious forest fires. The natural disaster relief fund in Taiwan has covered the loss caused by the foehn. However, no monitoring system has been developed for the foehn, so farmers are not able to immediately obtain foehn-related information and activate necessary schemes for disaster reduction. The research aims at foehn detection and uses the wireless sensor network technology to build a real-time system to monitor foehn. Since the characteristics of wireless sensor networks are low costs, unmanned control, and transmission distance up to 80 meters, it is feasible to apply the networks to environmental monitoring. When foehn occurs, the wireless communication devices in the proposed monitoring system transmit the temperature and humidity information collected by monitoring stations to the gateway, and sprinkler module action immediately for cooling and increasing humidity to protect the plants from pericarp damage or fruit drop phenomenon caused by foehn.
Subjects
wireless sensor network (WSN)
automatic sprinkler
foehn monitoring.
Type
thesis
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