Evaluating effect of foliage on link reliability of wireless signal

G. Ngandu; C. Nomatungulula; S. Rimer; B. S. Paul; K. Ouahada; B. Twala

doi:10.1109/ICIT.2013.6505899

Evaluating effect of foliage on link reliability of wireless signal

G. Ngandu
, C. Nomatungulula
, S. Rimer
, B. S. Paul
, K. Ouahada
, B. Twala

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Science

University of Johannesburg

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Abstract

Applications of low cost wireless sensor nodes in precision agriculture are being gradually adopted by commercial agricultural cooperatives as part of the continuing industrialisation of commercial agriculture. Current applications require extensive testing and experimentation to ensure reliable message transmission, because the transmitted wireless signal is scattered by the surrounding foliage. Network topology and node density is not optimized. In this paper, experiments to determine the effect of surrounding vegetation on the wireless signal in terms of link reliability, and signal strength for three different types of agricultural crops, namely, ground foliage, medium height and density vegetation, and very dense types of foliage is analyzed and discussed. The objective is to demonstrate that current radio propagation foliage loss models are not optimised for use in precision agriculture.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2013
Pages	1528-1533
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2013.6505899
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2013 - Cape Town, South Africa Duration: 25 Feb 2013 → 28 Feb 2013

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Name	Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology

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Conference	2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2013
Country/Territory	South Africa
City	Cape Town
Period	25/02/13 → 28/02/13

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Keywords

distance
link reliability
precision agriculture
scattering
wireless sensor networks

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Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Ngandu, G., Nomatungulula, C., Rimer, S., Paul, B. S., Ouahada, K., & Twala, B. (2013). Evaluating effect of foliage on link reliability of wireless signal. In Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2013 (pp. 1528-1533). Article 6505899 (Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2013.6505899

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Evaluating effect of foliage on link reliability of wireless signal. / Ngandu, G.; Nomatungulula, C.; Rimer, S. et al.
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