ABS-SmartComAgri: An Agent-Based Simulator of Smart Communication Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks for Debugging in Precision Agriculture

García-Magariño, I. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Lacuesta, R. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Lloret, J.

Resumen: Smart communication protocols are becoming a keymechanismfor improving communication performance in networks such as wireless sensor networks. However, the literature lacks mechanisms for simulating smart communication protocols in precision agriculture for decreasing production costs. In this context, the current work presents an agent-based simulator of smart communication protocols for efficiently managing pesticides. The simulator considers the needs of electric power, crop health, percentage of alive bugs and pesticide consumption. The current approach is illustrated with three different communication protocols respectively called (a) broadcast, (b) neighbor and (c) low-cost neighbor. The low-cost neighbor protocol obtained a statistically-significant reduction in the need of electric power over the neighbor protocol, with a very large difference according to the common interpretations about the Cohen’s d effect size. The presented simulator is called ABS-SmartComAgri and is freely distributed as open-source from a public research data repository. It ensures the reproducibility of experiments and allows other researchers to extend the current approach.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3390/s18040998

Año: 2018

Publicado en: Sensors (Switzerland) 18, 4 (2018), 998 [20 pp]
ISSN: 1424-8220

Factor impacto JCR: 3.031 (2018)

Categ. JCR: INSTRUMENTS & INSTRUMENTATION rank: 15 / 61 = 0.246 (2018) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL rank: 23 / 84 = 0.274 (2018) - Q2 - T1
Categ. JCR: ELECTROCHEMISTRY rank: 12 / 26 = 0.462 (2018) - Q2 - T2

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.592 - Analytical Chemistry (Q2) - Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (Q2) - Medicine (miscellaneous) (Q2) - Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Q2) - Instrumentation (Q2) - Biochemistry (Q2)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MEC/CAS17-00005
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MEC/OAPEE-2013-1-CZ1-GRU06-14277
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/TIN2014-57028-R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/JIUZ-2017-TEC-02
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/JIUZ-2017-TEC-03

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Lenguajes y Sistemas Inf. (Dpto. Informát.Ingenie.Sistms.)