Field Server Development and Applications in Taiwan

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Field Server Development and Applications in
Taiwan

• Ye-Nu Wan
• Agricultural Automation Center
• National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

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Conferences and Workshop

• 2003/11 Taiwan AG-IT conferences
• Dr. Hirafuji
• 2004/6 AG-IT Wireless Sensor Network Workshop
• (NARC) Dr. Ninomiya, Dr. Hirafuji, Mr. Fukatsu,
  etc.
• AG-IT was widely respected expected by
  administrator because of the conferences

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Typical Ag-ITTraceability systemField-server
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Trace linked using bar-code and/or RFID
Traceability IT structure
Production DB
Product-ID
Process and marketing DB
Production records
Process and marketing records
RFID
Transportation
Packing
Cargoes
retail sale
Raise, cultivate
Harvest
Process
FromNARC, Japen
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Agricultural wireless sensor network development
and applications
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IT makesUbiquitous Automatic

• ICT and wireless technique development
• Measurement instrument getting smaller, modular,
  networked, wireless, economic, and low power
  consumption
• Wireless communication
• 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee or GSM
• Wireless sensor network (WSN)
• Distributed multi-channel remote monitoring and
  data collecting time-shearing system

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Price vs. performanceagricultural wireless
sensor network

• Crossbol integrated commercial product
• Field-Server performance functions developing
  with software, sensors, camera, wireless, even
  solar power
• Sensor module web-AD/IO card, temperature,
  humidity, sunlight, CO2, ammonia, moisture
  content, meteorological sensors
• Wireless comm. 802.11a/b/g AP
• Vision CCD, CMOS, IR-camera
• Power consumption low

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Taiwan web-AD/IO engine

• web-AD/IO card
• 10cm x 7cm, 7.5-12V DC
• RJ-45 and RS-232 connectors
• Single chip computer
• PIC18F6520
• TTL I/O 12 ports
• A/D 10 bits, 5V, 8 ports
• Ethernet controller
• RTL8019AS
• IP MAC programmable

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Sensors

• Humidity (0-100 ? 1 RH) TDK CHS-UPS
• Temperature ( 0-100 ?1?C) LM35DZ
• NH3 (0-30PPM) TGS2602
• CO2 (300-5000ppm) HS-135
• Light (indoor) CDS
• Light(outdoor) solar cell
• Camera CCD and CMOS, IR

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Automatic and nonstop information collection and
monitoring
Agent program
Data collection
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Sensor calibration
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Wireless communication

• 802.11b/gWireless internet infrastructure,
  laptop
• Support TCP/IP?Ethernet, usually 2.4GHz
• 802.11b/11Mbps?802.11g/54Mbps, speed 1Mbps
  transmission distance about 570 meter
• Router/Bridge types
• IEEE802.15.4 (ZigBee) home set, PC, game box,
  toy
• 2.4GHz, 868MHz (European), 915MHz (US)
• Transmission distance about 75 meter,
  20kbps250kbps
• Low power consumption
• IEEE802.15.1 (blue tooth) m-phone, printer,
  medical equipment
• Short distance, 2.4GHz
• GPRS bandwidth up to 160 Kbps
• Criteria bandwidth, accessible, long term cost,
  technique popularity, experience

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Some FS
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Applications and Projects
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Application ubiquitous and automatic
information collector
Monitoring, Management, Distance control
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Poultry and livestock management applications
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Agricultural automation platform and control
center

• Front module Web-I/O SSR wireless AP
• Confirmation module FS (vision and movement
  feedback, middle connection)
• Control module (remote) broker, z-transform,
  intelligent control algorithm, etc.

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Remote control applicationwater sprayer cooling
system
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Food safety system issueAgriculture information
input

• Farmers and operators to use computers is
  difficult
• Farmer need information but computer, farmer
  earnest about profit but troublesome computer
  learning
• SOP?Tables?Manually?Static information?
• Field server provides
• Automatic, dynamic, intelligent able agriculture
  data collection

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Example Food safety issue

• Transparent superintend safety and quality check
  by consumer, impartial third party, inspector in
  regularly, remote, routine basis

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Using Field server User interface/Broker for
internet monitoring and management /Traceability
system
Farmer Remote monitoring management
Consumer Production process trace
1. Quality 2. Epidemic disease drug residual 3.
Consumers confidence
Third party superintend
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Project inpaddy field data collection

• Rice quality, weather data, physiology index
• Improve management to increase quality
• Two Universities, 5-10 experimental stations

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Application in swine health illness
monitoring- with RFID tracing dead swine to
incinerate process

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Applications projects

• Greenhouse
• Fruit, traceability data input, cross-check
• Aquatic product cultivation, fishery
• Leisure farms remote family farm

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New project with RFIDin dairy farm
FieldServer ?
Mastitis inspection field server with milk EC
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