Performance evaluation of 6LoWPAN-based precision agriculture

Abstract

The use of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) with IP network in Precission Agriculture (PA) would be an added advantage to existing solutions of PA system. However, existing WSN Technologies, such as Zigbee and other legacy sensor networks are originally design for non IP-based WSN. Hence, they have difficulties in constructing global infrastructure for the precision agriculture. On the other hand, IETF task force has come up with an open standard of wireless sensor network called 6LoWPAN which define connectivity of WSN to IP network using IPv6 protocols. Since the 6LoWPAN is a new technology, the use of this standard for Precision Agriculture is scarce. Most of the works are based on Zigbee. Therefore, this paper is contributing on discussing the performance evaluation and fundamental infrastructure setup for 6LoWPAN based Precision Agriculture.