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A Survey on LoRa for Smart Agriculture: Current Trends and Future Perspectives
2023
This paper provides a survey on the adoption of LoRa in the agricultural field, and reviews state-of-the-art solutions for Smart Agriculture, analyzing the potential of this technology in different infield applications. In particular, we consider four reference scenarios, namely irrigation systems, plantation and crop monitoring, tree monitoring, and livestock monitoring, which exhibit heterogeneous requirements in terms of network bandwidth, density, sensors’ complexity, and energy demand, as well as latency in the decision process. We discuss how LoRa-based solutions can work in these scenarios, analyzing their scalability, interoperability, network architecture, and energy-efficiency. Fi…
An Ambient Intelligence Architecture for Extracting Knowledge from Distributed Sensors
2009
Precisely monitoring the environmental conditions is an essential requirement for AmI projects, but the wealth of data generated by the sensing equipment may easily overwhelm the modules devoted to higher-level reasoning, clogging them with irrelevant details. The present work proposes a new approach to knowledge extraction from raw data that addresses this issue at different levels of abstraction. Wireless sensor networks are used as the pervasive sensory tool, and their computational capabilities are exploited to remotely perform preliminary data processing. A central intelligent unit subsequently extracts higher-level concepts represented in a geometrical space and carries on symbolic re…
Exploiting the Human Factor in a WSN-Based System for Ambient Intelligence
2009
Practical applications of ambient intelligence cannot leave aside requirements about ubiquity, scalability, and transparency to the user. An enabling technology to comply with this goal is represented by wireless sensor networks (WSNs); however, although capable of limited in-network processing, they lack the computational power to act as a comprehensive intelligent system. By taking inspiration from the sensory processing model of complex biological organisms, we propose here a cognitive architecture able to perceive, decide upon, and control the environment of which the system is part. WSNs act as a transparent interface that allows the system to understand human requirements through impl…
Extracting Structured Knowledge From Sensor Data for Hybrid Simulation
2014
Obtaining continuous and detailed monitoring of indoor environments has today become viable, also thanks to the widespread availability of effective and flexible sensing technology; this paves the way for the design of practical Ambient Intelligence systems, and for their actual deployment in real-life contexts, which require advanced functionalities, such as for instance the automatic discovery of the activities carried on by users. Novel issues arise in this context; on one hand, it is important to reliably model the phenomena under observation even though, to this end, it is often necessary to craft a carefully designed prototype in order to test and fine-tune the theoretical models.
A Hybrid Framework for Soft Real-Time WSN Simulation
2009
The design of a wireless sensor network is a chal- lenging task due to its intrinsically application-specific nature. Although a typical choice for testing such kind of networks requires devising ad-hoc testbeds, this is often impractical as it depends on expensive, and hard to maintain deployment of nodes. On the other hand, simulation is a valuable option, as long as the actual functioning conditions are reliably modeled, and carefully replicated. The present work describes a framework for supporting the user in early design and testing of a wireless sensor network with an augmented version of TOSSIM, the de-facto standard for simulators, that allows merging actual and virtual nodes seaml…
Robust Data Gathering for Wireless Sensor Networks
2006
2005 13th IEEE International Conference on Networks jointly held with the 2005 7th IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications, Proceedings Volume 1, 2005, Article number 1635527, Pages 469-474 2005 13th IEEE International Conference on Networks jointly held with the 2005 7th IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications; Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia; 16 November 2005 through 18 November 2005; Category number05EX1235; Code 69262 Robust data gathering for wireless sensor networks (Conference Paper) Ortolani, M. , Gatani, L. , Lo Re, G. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Parco d'Orleans, 90128 Palermo, Italy View re…
Programming distributed applications with symbolic reasoning on WSNs
2015
Programming Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a complex task for which existing approaches adopt rigid architectures that are only suitable for specific application fields. In previous papers we introduced a programming methodology and a lightweight middleware based on high-level programming and executable code exchange for distributed processing on WSNs. In this paper, we show how high-level programming can be effectively used on WSNs to implement symbolic reasoning. In order to prove the feasibility of our approach, we present a Fuzzy Logic system where the value updates and the rule evaluations are performed in a distributed way. Through the proposed methodology, we discuss the developm…
Modeling and Verification of Symbolic Distributed Applications Through an Intelligent Monitoring Agent
2022
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) represent a key component in emerging distributed computing paradigms such as IoT, Ambient Intelligence, and Smart Cities. In these contexts, the difficulty of testing, verifying, and monitoring applications in their intended scenarios ranges from challenging to impractical. Current simulators can only be used to investigate correctness at source code level and with limited accuracy. This paper proposes a system and a methodology to model and verify symbolic distributed applications running on WSNs. The approach allows to complement the distributed application code at a high level of abstraction in order to test and reprogram it, directly, on deployed network…
Probabilistic Anomaly Detection for Wireless Sensor Networks
2011
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are increasingly gaining popularity as a tool for environmental monitoring, however ensuring the reliability of their operation is not trivial, and faulty sensors are not uncommon; moreover, the deployment environment may influence the correct functioning of a sensor node, which might thus be mistakenly classified as damaged. In this paper we propose a probabilistic algorithm to detect a faulty node considering its sensed data, and the surrounding environmental conditions. The algorithm was tested with a real dataset acquired in a work environment, characterized by the presence of actuators that also affect the actual trend of the monitored physical quantities.
A Monitoring Framework Exploiting the Synergy between Actual and Virtual Wireless Sensors
2006
This paper describes a framework that allows realistic monitoring of a wireless sensor network in order to assess its behavior before actually deploying all the nodes. Designing a wireless sensor network for a specific application typically involves a preliminary phase of simulations that rely on specialized software, whose behavior does not necessarily reproduce what will be experienced by an actual network. On the other hand, delaying the test phase until deployment may not be advisable due to unreasonable costs. This paper suggests the adoption of a hybrid approach that involves coupling an actual wireless sensor network composed of a minimal set of actual nodes with a simulated one; we …