An environment monitoring system for livestock barn based on energy efficient wireless sensor network

Recently, there is an increasing trend of cases where wireless sensor network technology is being applied in various areas. Particularly, various environmental sensors are being used to substitute the areas that are difficult for people to do directly. Among various areas of industry, such studies are being actively conducted also in livestock industry. Although the Korea livestock industry is becoming larger in scale and systematic, it is still receiving damages from various diseases and difficulty in maintaining growth and development environment. To reduce such damages, this paper proposes a wireless sensor network (WSN) based stall environment monitoring system for collecting environmental information for real-time monitoring by using various environmental sensors. The proposed system allows manager to easily monitor via PC and smart devices by deviating from the existing manual method of directly checking growth and development environment. In addition, it has been enhanced to extend the life of sensor through the method of efficiently collecting energy data for extending the slip time of sensor node while minimizing routing path. Based on this, it is expected to improve the productivity of livestock farms by maintaining optimum growth environment of livestock.