Centre Projects
Wireless network
The Indigo Systems “wireless vineyard” provides a low cost way to collect plant and environmental information over a vineyard using a wireless mesh network.Brief:
The wireless mesh network uses nodes in the vineyard that have environmental sensors connected to the node. In the trial the sensors were recording air and soil temperature and soil moisture. Unlike a traditional wireless telemetry system which would transmit information from any given node directly back to the base-station the wireless mesh network only transmits information to the nearest node in the network. This information is then “routed” through the network to the desired destination. A trial of the wireless mesh network system was performed with the twofold aims of testing the wireless mesh network technology as a means for collecting remote information while also adding valuable data into the larger vineyard variability study conducted by the wine research centre. The system has shown good potential for collecting information both in real-time, which is important for frost protection applications, and also over the longer term to better define the “state” of the vineyard with the aim of improving management techniques.
Wireless network (extracted from Annual Report 2005-06)
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