Wireless sensing

Pervasive acquisition of multiple physical quantities using wireless smart platforms.

Real time control

Continuous update of environmental status through remote connection and network control.

Historical data analysis

Data mining strategies and custom algorithms for data analysis, learning, and optimization.

Season Prototype

Sensors:
  • - Air temperature
    - Air relative humidity
    - Soil temperature
    - Soil moisture
    - Rain level
Wireless technologies

IEEE 802.15.4:

  • - 2.4 GHz
    - TX power up to +18 dBm
    - Up to 1500 m outdoor coverage
Packaging:
- compact size (8cm x 4cm x 15cm)
- integrated battery with external solar panel
- ease of installation of waterproof enclosure

Precision Agriculture

Smart environment through wireless monitoring of heterogeneous physical quantities

SEASON enables the environmental monitoring by means of the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology to study environmental processes. The ground in-situ wireless sensors are able to capture the main changes in the environment thanks to their sensing heterogeneity. Wireless sensor networks basically consist of large amount of sensor nodes deployed in large physical area to monitor and detect the real-time environmental activities. The sensors cooperatively collect the data such as temperature, relative humidity, brightness from the surroundings. The available informations create exciting opportunities for large scale and data intensive applications aiming at supporting intelligent decisions of end-users looking at data readings and patterns.

SEASON offers a global-scale framework for sensed data sharing as well as sensor observation services to close the gap between the scattered WSNs and the Sensor Web application layer.

Such real-time sensor acquisitions are the fundamental inputs of data mining techniques for extracting the useful information through data clustering, pattern matching, and the detection of sensor data irregularities.

Online Testing

 

ELEDIA Season Test field @ Cantina Pisoni, Trento, Italy

Real-time Site View

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Map View

Chart Settings

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Daily Statistics

  • Temperature
  • Humidity

Real-time Measurements

Installation Gallery @ Cantina Pisoni, Trento, Italy

Gateway Season installed at Cantina Pisoni, Trento, Italy.

Installation of the first node on the south corner of the field.

View of Node 1 close to the "historic vineyard" of Cantina Pisoni.

Node 2 installed close to the Cantina Pisoni along the north side of the field.

.Node 3 installed at the farthest corner of the field respect to the gateway position.

Detail of the irrigation system installed in the monitored field.

Installation of a probe for soil moisture and temperature measurement.

.Soil probe of Node 8 installed at a depth of 40 cm for soil moisture and temperature measurement.

Node 8 equipped with one soil moisture/temperature probe installed at 40 cm depth.

Node 8 with solar panel and one soil moisture/temperature probe installed at 40 cm depth.

Two soil probes installed at 30 cm and 50 cm depth for the measurement of vertical variability of soil moisture.

Node 7 equipped with two soil moisture probes installed at 30 cm and 50 cm depth.

Detail of Node 7 installed in the "historic vineyard" at Cantina Pisoni.

Gateway season installed at Cantina Pisoni in front of the monitored vineyard.

Pluviometer sensor connected to the gateway for rain level measurement.

Acknowledgments

This work benefited from the networking activities carried out within the Project "WATERTECH - Smart Community per lo Sviluppo e l’Applicazione di Tecnologie di Monitoraggio Innovative per le Reti di Distribuzione Idrica negli usi idropotabili ed agricoli" (Grant no. SCN_00489) funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research within the Program "Smart cities and communities and Social Innovation" (CUP: E44G14000060008).

 

References

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