TY - GEN
T1 - A Battery-Free Wireless Smart Sensor platform with Bluetooth Low Energy Connectivity for Smart Agriculture
AU - Rosa, Roberto La
AU - Dehollain, Catherine
AU - Costanza, Mario
AU - Speciale, Angelo
AU - Viola, Fabio
AU - Livreri, Patrizia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Smart agriculture systems, which integrate sensors and data analysis into agricultural production processes, are increasingly proving an effective solution for reducing food production waste, yield production increase, and product quality improvement. In this context, this paper deals with a wireless sensors platform for humidity, temperature, and light detection that has the peculiarity to be self-powered and battery-free. The main advantage of the proposed solution is the elimination of maintenance interventions due to battery replacement. Therefore, the availability of install-and-forget sensors allows an easy diffusion for a capillary detection of plant health and growth parameters throughout the cultivated area. The device platform implements off-the-shelf components on a printed circuit board (PCB) with the size of 2x2cm2 and the thickness of 0.45cm. The sensor platform can harvest energy and supply the sensors with light intensity as low as 300lux and communicate with Bluetooth Low Energy communication. Experimental measurements carried out in the rural context of the rows of a vineyard show the system functionality with a reliable communication distance, between the sensor platform and a remote Base Station, within a radius of 160m.
AB - Smart agriculture systems, which integrate sensors and data analysis into agricultural production processes, are increasingly proving an effective solution for reducing food production waste, yield production increase, and product quality improvement. In this context, this paper deals with a wireless sensors platform for humidity, temperature, and light detection that has the peculiarity to be self-powered and battery-free. The main advantage of the proposed solution is the elimination of maintenance interventions due to battery replacement. Therefore, the availability of install-and-forget sensors allows an easy diffusion for a capillary detection of plant health and growth parameters throughout the cultivated area. The device platform implements off-the-shelf components on a printed circuit board (PCB) with the size of 2x2cm2 and the thickness of 0.45cm. The sensor platform can harvest energy and supply the sensors with light intensity as low as 300lux and communicate with Bluetooth Low Energy communication. Experimental measurements carried out in the rural context of the rows of a vineyard show the system functionality with a reliable communication distance, between the sensor platform and a remote Base Station, within a radius of 160m.
KW - BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy)
KW - Energy Harvesting
KW - IoT (Internet of Things)
KW - Wireless Sensor Node (WSN)
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85136381259
U2 - 10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9842920
DO - 10.1109/MELECON53508.2022.9842920
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85136381259
T3 - MELECON 2022 - IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Proceedings
SP - 554
EP - 558
BT - MELECON 2022 - IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 21st IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, MELECON 2022
Y2 - 14 June 2022 through 16 June 2022
ER -