On the experiences with testbeds and applications in precision farming

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2017-11-05
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Hartung, Robert  
Kulau, Ulf  
Gernert, Björn Ulrich  
Rottmann, Stephan  
Wolf, Lars  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/10887
Start Page
54
End Page
61
Citation
FAILSAFE 2017 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on the Engineering of Reliable, Robust, and Secure Embedded Wireless Sensing Systems, Part of SenSys 2017: 54-61 (2017-11-05)
Contribution to Conference
1st ACM International Workshop on the Engineering of Reliable, Robust, and Secure Embedded Wireless Sensing Systems, FAILSAFE 2017  
Publisher DOI
10.1145/3143337.3143338
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85041681537
Publisher
ACM
While success stories are likely to be reported, failures are rarely published - even if a lot can be learned from them. In this paper we present experiences and findings from our testbed and WSN deployments. Our PotatoNet has been deployed on an agricultural area in 2015 to perform several WSN outdoor experiments while measuring the stress of potato crops. It was extended a year later by the PotatoMesh, a solar panel-based mesh network of nodes. Throughout both of these deployments we experienced problems and failures at different stages of the projects. We derive key problems and some important concepts when it comes to outdoor WSN deployments.
Subjects
Experiences
Failures
Outdoor testbeds
Solar-based Mesh Network
Wireless Sensor Networks
DDC Class
004: Informatik
Funding Organisations
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)  
More Funding Information
We would like to thank the VSD Dethlingen4 for providing the fields and technical support. This research was partially founded by the German Research Council (DFG) under the grant no. BU 3282/2-1.