%0 Journal Article
%A Mahdi Musa
%A Audu Mabu
%A Falmata Modu
%A Adam Adam
%A Farouq Aliyu
%T Automated Hydroponic System using Wireless Sensor Networks
%J Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal
%D 2022
%V 7
%N 2
%P 1–17
%R 10.25046/aj070201
%U https://www.astesj.com/v07/i02/p01/
%> https://www.astesj.com/?sdm_process_download=1&download_id=49013
%X <p style="text-align: justify;">Researchers have associated agriculture and food processing with adverse environmental impacts like; falls in the underground freshwater table, energy consumption, and high carbon emission. These factors have the worst effect on developing countries. Therefore, there is a need for on-demand food production techniques that require minimum resource utilization. For these reasons, scientists are now focusing their attention on hydroponics. Hydroponics is the process of growing crops without the use of soil. However, different components of the system need to be closely monitored and controlled. In this paper, we compared the performance of an automated hydroponic system using cluster-based wireless sensor networks against a multihop-based one. We used Simponics for the simulation. It is a simulator based on the OMNET++ framework. Simulation results show that both latency and energy overhead of the multihop network increases with the number of nodes. However, they stay constant on a cluster-based network.</p>
%K Hydroponics
%K Wireless Sensor Networks
%K Energy Harvesting
%K Data Aggregation
%K OMNET++