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A wireless sensor network for vineyard management in Sicily (Italy)
2013
Wine quality depends on many factors, such as the choice of variety, stock, training system, pruning as well as environmental parameters and cultivation techniques performed in the vineyard. Monitoring the micro-climate of grapevine allows to conveniently perform the most important cultivation techniques (soil management, pesticide treatments, green pruning, harvest) thus reducing the operating costs of the vineyard, and increasing the overall quality of the grapes. The aim of the present study is to monitor the micro-climate of grapevine in order to control spring period hazards, to reduce the operating costs of the vineyard and to increase the quality of grapes. For this purpose a Wireles…
A Novel Framework of Hybrid Harvesting Mechanisms for Remote Sensing Devices
2022
Sensing networks have recently proven to be useful in a variety of disciplines. The use of mobile sensing robots and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is intended to lessen the burden of sensor node energy consumption. However, conserving energy in the networks remains a major concern. In this work, a design of a hybrid RF-Solar harvesting system to support sensing devices is investigated. The harvesting circuits may collect energy from both solar and radio frequency (RF) resources that are commonly available in ambient environments. This approach creates hybrid harvesting circuits for all elements in the combined sensor networks by combining RF and solar harvester circuits. The RF harvester …
Hybrid Solar-RF Energy Harvesting Mechanisms for Remote Sensing Devices
2022
Recently, sensor networks effectively provide many applications in different fields. The deployment of mobile sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles is to reduce the burden of energy consumption for sensor nodes. However, saving energy in such networks is still a critical issue. This paper investigates the performance of a hybrid RF-Solar harvesting circuit for remote sensing devices. The harvesting circuit can simultaneously harvest power from solar and radio frequency (RF) sources readily available in the surrounding environment. The proposed work builds RF and solar harvester circuits to create hybrid harvesting circuits for all elements in the combined sensing networks. The stand-alone RF ha…
WIRELESS DETECTION OF PD PATTERNS: APPLICATIONS IN SMART GRIDS AND MODERN POWER SYSTEMS
In this thesis, different challenges for various applications of a wireless PD detection instrument are discussed and relevant solutions are proposed. The main purpose is to assess the applicability of such technology both in current HV and MV power systems as well as in future applications for smart grids. The main challenges for these types of diagnostic systems are the following: • voltage synchronization of Phase Resolved PD pattern; • PD recognition under non-sinusoidal voltage waveforms; • PD recognition under sinusoidal voltage superimposed harmonics; • PD recognition in laboratory and in real world situations under noise and other source of disturbance. Thanks to the collaboration w…
Revealing Transmit Diversity Mechanisms in Commercial IEEE 802.11 Cards
2008
Service differentiation in WLAN has been traditionally faced at the MAC layer. However, some PHY layer parameters, such as the transmission power, the antenna, and the modulation/coding scheme, have a deep impact on network performance. Since the criterion for selecting these parameters is left to the vendor specific implementations, the performance spread of most experimental results about 802.11 WLAN could be affected by vendor proprietary schemes. The focus of this paper is an experimental analysis of the undisclosed antenna diversity mechanisms employed by some widely used cards (namely, the Atheros and Intel based cards), and a thorough understanding of the optimization goals which gui…
An Embedded System for the integration of a Combined Photovoltaic Solar (CPS) system into a ZigBee Home Area Network
2011
In this paper is reported the design and implementation of an electronic system capable of communicating over a standard ZigBee network in order to let a residential gateway collector, named agent, gain access to the parameters of a Combined Photovoltaic and Solar thermal (CPS) plant, thus realizing a networked energy production appliance . The system is made of three parts: a PV metering device, a boiler metering device also capable of controlling a heating resistor embedded within the boiler tank, and a data collector acting as a ZigBee node. The data collector device periodically retrieves the following parameters from the metering devices: instantaneous photovoltaic power production, ac…
The FP7 BeyWatch European scientific project: general features and design criteria of the Combined Photovoltaic Solar (CPS) system within the BEYWATC…
2011
This paper includes the general features and design criteria of a combined photovoltaic solar system (CPS) and its allocation within the entire architecture of the BeyWatch system. The CPS main functionalities and characteristics, the description of the CPS main components and the CPS electronic control and monitoring subsystem, together with the description of the Firmware design and communication protocols are here reported. The Combined Photovoltaic and Solar system (CPS) is a Renewable Energy system that produces thermal and electrical energy and the design has been based on a modular approach.
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 energy analysis of IEEE 802.15.6 scheduled access modes
2010
Body Area Networks (BANs) are an emerging area of wireless personal communications. The IEEE 802.15.6 working group aims to develop a communications standard optimised for low power devices operating on, in or around the human body. IEEE 802.15.6 specifically targets low power medical application areas. The IEEE 802.15.6 draft defines two main channel access modes; contention based and contention free. This paper examines the energy lifetime performance of contention free access and in particular of periodic scheduled allocations. This paper presents an overview of the IEEE 802.15.6 and an analytical model for estimating the device lifetime. The analysis determines the maximum device lifeti…
Cross-Technology WiFi/ZigBee Communications: Dealing With Channel Insertions and Deletions
2016
In this letter, we show how cross-technology interference can be exploited to set up a low-rate bidirectional communication channel between heterogeneous WiFi and ZigBee networks. Because of the environment noise and receivers' implementation, the cross-technology channel can be severely affected by insertions and deletions of symbols, whose effects need to be taken into account by the coding scheme and communication protocol.