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Continuous Instream Monitoring of Nutrients and Sediment in Agricultural Watersheds
Published on: September 26, 2017
Monitoring system for farming operations with wearable devices utilized sensor networks
Tokihiro Fukatsu1, Teruaki Nanseki
1National Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization/3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan.
Abstract:
In order to automatically monitor farmers' activities, we propose a farm operation monitoring system using "Field Servers" and a wearable device equipped with an RFID reader and motion sensors. Our proposed system helps in recognizing farming operations by analyzing the data from the sensors and detected RFID tags that are attached to various objects such as farming materials, facilities, and machinery. This method can be applied to various situations without changing the conventional system. Moreover, this system provides useful information in real-time and controls specific machines in a coordinated manner on the basis of recognized operation.
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