Ning Wang
Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University

Wireless sensor network has been used in many applications, such as environmental monitoring, industrial process, health-care, constructions, etc. In recent years, water shortage becomes more and more severe and is gaining much attention from governments, researchers, industry, and other users. Carefully monitoring water use efficiency and water distribution becomes imperative. However, this often requires that multi-sensors be distributed in large areas and the data collection be conducted timely and repeatedly. The cost of deployment of such data acquisition systems can be very high, tedious, and time consuming. Recent development of wireless sensor network changes the concepts of traditional data acquisition which makes real-time monitoring more efficient, flexible, and cost-effective. This presentation will report the recent progress on applying WSN for soil and water monitoring and discuss the challenges of the next generation WSNs and their deployment to improve soil and water monitoring and management.