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The vineyards of all Spain could be monitored with the tool of sensor networks that has tested a thesis of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) directed by Juan Ángel Pastor and Bárbara Álvarez.
The research has led to the technological limit, simulating millions of sensors covering vast areas, the tool Fiware, launched by a consortium in which the European Union participates.
"We have no news that such systematic and massive tests have been carried out previously," said the author of the thesis, Ramón Martínez Carreras, a telecommunications engineer at the Cartagena Polytechnic.
"Precision farming in the immediate future will require these tools," says Juan Ángel Pastor, director of the UPCT's School of Telecommunication.
"The sensors are going to make a lot cheaper and the current problems of energy supply, with long battery life and remote activation are being solved at the moment of data collection," he said.
"A dron flying over growing surfaces could be enough to activate the sensors, capture their data and automatically share them in the cloud," adds Pastor of the Division of Electronic Engineering Systems (DSIE) at the Polytechnic.
The tested tool also allows the real-time processing of the multiple variables that are interesting to know of an agricultural land, such as temperature, humidity or nutrient level.
"The next challenge is to extend this study to the processing of complex events, with continuous streaming of data, and the comparison with other platforms," ​​concludes Bárbara Álvarez, a professor in the area of ​​Computer Languages ​​and Systems.
Source: UPCT
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