Intelligent Insect Monitoring through Wireless Sensor Network: White Grub Detection

Rashid Hussain, Tanujha Jha, Yusuf Saleh

Abstract


WSN is an emerging technology that has spread rapidly into various multidisciplinary fields. Recently, the agriculture and farming industry has diverted their attention to WSN, seeking this cost effective technology to improve its production and enhance agriculture yield standard. The issue of water, soil and pest can be solved by WSN (automatic monitoring) to increase profit, productivity and efficiency in agriculture. Based on the behavior of these insects pest, acoustic, image, odor, temperature, moisture and CO2 sensors and technologies are used for monitoring these insects below and above the soil, which serves to monitor the green house condition. CO2 sensor and moisture were utilized to detect (above a threshold value) and locate white grubs as soil pest with WSN technology. Acoustic detection can be used to estimate population of white grubs. 


Keywords


Acoustic, Detection, CO2, Greenhouse, Insect, Monitoring, WSN

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