Designing a brown planthoppers surveillance network based on wireless sensor network approach

TL;DR

This paper presents a wireless sensor network-based surveillance system for monitoring brown planthopper swarms at a provincial scale, utilizing light traps and network topology analysis to optimize detection.

Contribution

It introduces a novel WSN approach for BPH monitoring, including topology identification and communication range evaluation, tailored for large-scale agricultural pest surveillance.

Findings

Effective network topology identified for BPH monitoring

Optimal communication range determined for reliable data collection

Successful deployment demonstrated in Hau Giang province

Abstract

This paper proposes a new approach for monitoring brown planthoppers (BPH) swarms using a surveillance network at provincial scale. The topology of this network is identified to a wireless sensor network (WSN), where each node is a real light trap and each edge describes the influence between two nodes, allowing gathering BPH information. Different communication ranges are evaluated to choose a suitable network. The experiments are performed on the light traps surveillance network of Hau Giang province, a typical rice province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.