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Community-Oriented Management and Monitoring Of Natural Resources via a Sensor network
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| Coordinating organisation: | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne |
| Description: | The COMMON-Sense Net system aims at designing and developing an integrated network of sensors for agricultural management in the rural semi-arid areas of developing countries. On top of having an impact on yield and efficiency at the local level, the system will allow the collection of extensive data that can be reused to better understand the effects of water and other environmental parameters on agriculture, and thus to develop replicable strategies. The COMMON-Sense Net consists in a wireless network of ground-sensors that record periodically the water content of the soil. Weather stations are also used to monitor the variation of climatic parameters. In our model, sensors record data on a periodic basis, and send them to a centralized processing unit, which performs statistical computations and correlates them with meteorological data to assess the optimal farming strategy. The centralized processing unit can be linked to external meteorological servers to help in its decision process. This can be done, depending on the environment, through a wired or wireless connection, or a satellite link. |
| Budget (in &euro): | 575334 |
| Internet: | Projects Link |
| Start: | 2004-05-01 |
| End: | 2008-05-01 |
| Total number of staff: | 8 |
| Number of staff abroad: | 6 |
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| ARD-theme: | plant production water water conservation water management farming systems |
| Target country: | India |
| Ecosystem: | semi-arid tropical |
| Activity: | research |
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| Donor organisations: | 3 |
| Participating organisations: | 1 |
| Programmes funding: | 1 |
| Last editing: | 2006-06-07 15:01:07 |