Importance of Advance Networking and Communication for Environmental Monitoring and Greenhouse Control

This article discusses the importance of advance networking and communication for environmental monitoring and greenhouse control. It explores the use of sensor networks and distributed sensor networks in managing applications and provides insights into the implementation of wireless sensor networks for real-time data acquisition. The paper also highlights the benefits of using sensor networks in greenhouse setups and the potential for better growth and energy conservation.

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S.B. Prabhu, C.V. Dhasharathi, R. Prabhakaran, M.R. Kumar, S.W. Feroze, and S.
Sophia. Environmental monitoring and greenhouse control by distributed sensor
Network. International Journal of Advanced Networking and Applications, 5(5), p.2060, 2014.
The aim of this article is to understand the importance of advance networking and
communication. With the implementation of advance networking environmental monitoring can be
done. This also helps in providing proper greenhouse control with the use of distributed sensor
network. A sensor is a small component that is used to determine the physical parameters associated
with the environment. Sensors main job is to measure the parameters and transmit this measures via
wireless medium or with the used of wired medium. This report has described the use of sensor in
today’s generation and the role played by them in managing the applications. Sensor and the
components related to them are termed as node in a wireless medium. Advance networking helps in
proper transmission of data effectively without any loss [5]. This paper aims at discussing about the
effect of using sensor network on environmental monitoring. The paper has discussed about the
experimental setup that helps in successful use of environmental monitoring. This becomes essential
to understand the effects that will be created with the aim of implementing the network on large scale.
The paper has proposed a sensor network that can be implemented with less cost and also includes
mitigation of the risks identified in the last models [3]. The report has described the important setup
needed for greenhouse. This includes a proper a proper greenhouse environment, sensors, greenhouse,
radiation, water and humidity, concentration of CO2.
This report has presented a model for agriculture application with the use of sensor networks.
The proposed model contains three main components, this are sensor network, gateway and base
station. This helps in proper monitoring of the greenhouse and proper measures to control the effect of
greenhouse. The proposed models helps to eradicate the drawbacks in the existing model. With the
implementation of the new model it is observed that excellent improvement is observed within the
sensing parameters [1]. The newly developed sensor network has implemented features like
temperature sensor, humidity sensor, vibration sensor and temperature sensor. The data sensed gets

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processed with the use of micro controller and gets displayed in LCD display. The proposed model
focuses on the doing ideal assessment based on plant type and culture. The parameters accomplished
by wireless transmission helps in sharing the information to the remote monitoring station
periodically. The sensed data is forwarded towards the gateway. Further this data gets forwarded to
the monitoring base station. After all the assumptions made, it can be seen that the development
seems to be better with the implementation of wireless sensor network technology as it offers real
time data acquisition. While developing such an important technology it becomes equally important to
evaluate the risks that are likely to be faced at the implementation time. The concept of greenhouse
clearly indicates that it does not need much climatic parameters to be measured. With implementation
of this expertise it will become easy to determine the climatic limitations with the use of sensor
network [2]. This report ensures that with improved energy efficiency this mechanism can be
implemented within the world of wireless network with the use of well-known energy effective
circulated clustering mechanism.
Findings from the paper
The aim of this paper is to describe about the importance of having a sensor network. Sensor
has the ability to translate physical and chemical readings collected from the environment into signals
that can be calculated within a system. With the help of a multi sensor node the network is capable of
sensing the several other magnitudes within the system. Wireless sensor is a better way of network
architecture as it helps better detection for fire and verification. According to D.Dardari et al.
outdoor monitoring is one of the important factors while implementing a sensor network. For example
one of the latest example of sensor nodes are great duck island. With the implementation of this
networks environment monitoring becomes easy. The main benefit of sensor nodes is that it was able
to sense temperature, humidity and barometric pressure. In addition to this array was set for
monitoring the natural environment of birds and their related activities with the change on climate. In
order to develop a proper sensors in the environment without harming the birds, it is important to
track their actions. Thus motes were installed in birds burrow so that they can spot out the bird’s
presence. With the help of sensor network the landsides can be predicted [4]. This helps in mitigating

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the problems that arises with the landslides. Apart from this forest fires are also recognized as a major
cause that can affect the wild areas and human resources. Sensor clouds are the invention in
technology that will help to monitor the health with the use of simple and wearable sensors. This will
create a network that helps in easy communication among the patients and doctors. Moreover at
emergency situation the patient will be able to get quick response from hospital. This will improve the
health conditions. The paper has explained about the greenhouse setup. The important factors for this
setup includes greenhouse environment. The greenhouse environment consist of plentiful parts with
their own local climate [7]. With the implementation of wireless network one can implement proper
communication range. Apart from this the concentration CO2 is also an essential factor for
development of plant. This becomes important to develop an environment that will contribute towards
the growth of the plant. However it is equally important to note that extreme level of carbon can turn
the environment poisonous.
The proposed model aims at providing a solution to the existing models drawback. The model
proposed currently is being developed on hardware after performing tests. The result of this
implemented software was excellent. This was successfully able to detected environmental parameters
and also produced control models. The transmission took place by wireless network was implemented
with the use of a Zigbee module. This module helps in development of a module that can send
information to remote monitoring station frequently [8]. For monitoring and controlling the planned
variables of environment it becomes important to have actuators and sensors. This instruments has the
capability for measuring and controlling the values with the greenhouse. Basically the
implementation of greenhouse control is done by determining the cost to a reference cost.
The proposed model has a sensor network with several nodes, a gateway and a base station.
The information gets transmitted from sensor network to gateway and after that the information are
transferred to base station for further modification. It is being observed that a huge amount of cost
gets incorporated while implementing a wireless sensor network. Thus to implement the network
within the budget it becomes necessary to work with sensor network. The data after sensing gets
delivered to the gateway. From gateway the data gets forwarded to remote monitoring base station.

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The base station is basically located in remote area with a computer that is used for visualizing the
details periodically and also helps in monitoring the details. The data are further carried out for
performing actions. The control system are divided into distributed and centralized systems. In case of
centralized system a single component has the capability to gather information and has the ability to
process those data. Whereas in a distributed control system connections are built between information
processing and nodes and are distributed among the other components of the system. The main
advantage of having a distributed system is that it includes following features: expansion, reliability
and flexibility. Flexibility helps in changing the procedures such as removing, adding components
that impacts the basic operations. Reliability helps in minimizing the effect of failure [6]. That is
component failure will affect the part of the structure. Expansion helps in including additional
components without enormous changes in the system. However from this paper it can be concluded
that using sensor networks in greenhouse will help to control and monitor the effects. With the usage
of this technology in big scale will bring better growth for future. For the best energy conservation it
becomes important to implement wireless sensor network in the real world for efficient working and
better energy distribution among different nodes. This paper gives an idea regarding better way of
managing the advanced networking and the way greenhouse can be controlled.

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