Presentation of the project OliveNET Croatian: MasliNET

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Presentation of the project OliveNET (Croatian
MasliNET)

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Wireless Sensor Networks

• A set of a large number of sensor nodes that
• collect data from the environment
• make decisions locally and interact with the
  environment (adaptability, intelligent systems)
• communicate with each other and with the central
  system
• Sensor node
• Very small (widely applicable) computer with
  limited resources
• Applications
• Medicine, environmental protection, transport,
  industry, military, agriculture etc.

Mica2 sensor node, http//www.xbow.com
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OliveNET RD department at the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering and Computing

• The goal is to demonstrate the application of
  wireless sensor networks in agriculture
• Continue with research and cooperation with
  Siemens
• Research challenges, interdisciplinary
• Develop a new platform
• Minimize consumption
• Acquire, process and transmit visual information
• Robustness
• Project will take 3 years
• Exploration phase
• Test phase

A part of the FERs Department of Electronic
Systems and Information Processing team for
research and development of wireless sensor
networks, http//aig.zesoi.fer.hr
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The concept of a wireless sensor network in olive
growing

• Tree-level network provides information for
  monitoring
• microclimate, soil condition, plant condition
  and presence of pest
• Functional elements
• Ground node
• Tree node
• Local communication
• Local server
• Link with the central mainframe through a public
  communication network
• Idea link single olive groves networks into
  an integrated system

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Using information acquired from sensor networks

• Implementation of the concept on larger areas
• more efficient monitoring of
• microclimate conditions in an olive grove
• plants and fruits development
• pest occurrence
• Support in decision-making in growing and use
  of protective agents
• Support in making projection models
• Infrastructure for studying pest and their
  geographical distribution
• Prerequisite for multidisciplinary research

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Cooperation between Siemens and FER so far

• Project Universal Telemetric Platform
• Collect, organize and store data from distant
  measuring locations
• Forward the collected information to end-user
  applications for processing and/or visualization
  
• Project Intelligent House Wireless Sensor
  Network
• Microclimate and energy consumption management
• Lighting, heating and air-conditioning devices
  management
• Distant supervision and control of these systems

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Siemenss contribution to the MasliNET project

• Experience in technology
• Siemens creates new technologies
• Siemens Croatia is taking part in developing
  devices and solutions based on new technologies
• Participation in international agricultural
  projects
• Implementation of the incentives system
• Implementation of the crops registry
• Implementation of EU regulations
• Participation in industrial projects in which
  similar technologies are being applied

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Perspectives and project coverage

• Perspectives
• Possibility of using the acquired experiences in
  other areas of olive growing
• Implementation in other olive groves and other
  crops
• Projects web site

www.masliNET.com
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THE OLIVE FRUIT FLY(Bactrocera oleae)

• The most important pest in olive growing
• Damage in yields and oil quality, up to 100!
• Over HRK 100,000,000 worth of damage (Croatia)

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Monitoring - prevention

• Yellow boards (pheromone)
• McPhails traps, pheromone

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Problems - Solutions

• Field inspection
• Time and fuel consumption
• 2 sites per county at the most
• Expenses HRK 80,000 100,000 and 240 workdays
• Automatic trap
• Monitoring at any time at an unlimited number of
  sites islands, hardly accessible sites, large
  plantations!
• GIS cards, occurrence dynamics

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Thank you!