Development of wireless sensor network for Harumanis Mango orchard's temperature, humidity and soil moisture monitoring

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is widely used in agriculture for the purpose of monitoring, controlling and managing the crops. This paper presents the development of wireless sensor network system to monitor the environment parameters in Harumanis Mango orchard using temperature, humidity, soil moisture sensor by utilizing RF transceiver module and PIC18 microcontroller. The wireless sensor nodes transmit wirelessly the temperature, humidity and soil moisture sensor data to the base station. The system was successfully tested in Harumanis Mango orchard and its capability and feasibility towards monitoring the environment's temperature, humidity and soil moisture level are established. The data were successfully captured and stored in a local server.