MULTI-HOP WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS FOR REMOTE MONITORING OF SOIL MOISTURE

As we know, recent development of wireless sensor networks (WSN) technology
initiates many research works but most of them are implemented in simulation and
rarely been tested for real world application. Thus, this project is conducted to study
the performance of multi-hop WSN and apply it for remote soil moisture monitoring
application. The motivation of this project is driven by the limitations of conventional
soil monitoring technique that are inflexible and requires expensive cost associated
with installation and hiring of an expert agronomist. Therefore, it is believed that
deployment of multi-hop WSN technology with remote monitoring feature can solve
those limitations with minimal human intervention, lower cost and capability of
providing real time monitoring of large data. In this project, Crossbow IRIS motes
were used to build a working testbed of sensor nodes to monitor the surrounding
humidity, surrounding temperature of the crops and soil moisture in the form of
volumetric water content (%VWC).