This paper presents a novel approach for guiding mobile robots inside greenhouses demonstrated by promising preliminary physical experiments. It represents a comprehensive attempt to use the successful principles of AGVs (auto-guided vehicles) inside greenhouses, but avoiding the necessity of modifying the crop layout, and avoiding having to bury metallic pipes in the greenhouse floor. The desi...

The paper describes the design of an environment monitoring system supporting the development of black-box model based greenhouse climate control. Despite many currently available control schemes, only black-box modelling can be carried out efficiently for small or medium size greenhouses. For this large amount of measurements is needed, calling for a new distributed measurement system architec...

Greenhouse cultivation technology has greatly contributed to the development of agriculture in Malaysia. Understanding how monitor greenhouse environment with high efficiency and low power consumption is particularly important. In this research, a wireless sensor network for agricultural greenhouses based on improved Zigbee protocol designed. Its hardware consists various sensors nodes commonly...

Wireless Sensor Networks are considered an important part of the modern ICT solutions for greenhouse monitoring. Several communication technologies are already available and have been used both in pilot and commercial installations. Their attractiveness is based on their deployment flexibility and low cost. However, some special features of the greenhouses and their cultivations (variable micro...

The environmental temperature plays an important role in the growing crops. How to make use of computer technology to realize automatic control ambient temperature of greenhouse is a hot issue in the intelligent agriculture. The control of environmental temperature in modern greenhouses is collected and analyzed by monitoring system of greenhouse environment based on Labview software and wirele...