Designing a Wireless Sensor Network for Precision Agriculture Using Zigbee

The newly emerging technology i.e. Wireless Sensor Networks spread rapidly into many field's like medical, habitat monitoring, bio-technology etc. The relevance of WSN are tremendous. The utility of WSN is for collecting the sensed data, storing or processing the sensed data and the transmitting data to the appropriate central station. Agriculture is one of the field which have recently averted their scrutiny to WSN. By taking help of WSN, one can transmit the real-time data quickly with in no time. The WSN system which is developed in this paper, is used for precision agriculture. Precision agriculture is nothing but applying right inputs at the right time to get more cultivation with less power and work. The real-time data is based on the several characteristics of weather like temperature, humidity etc. The architecture of the developed WSN system in this paper comprehend a set of sensors called sensor node, base station and central station. Base station sends the sensed data to the central station.