IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE UN SISTEMA EXPERIMENTAL DE MONITOREO BASADO EN UNA RED INALÁMBRICA PARA COMPARAR EL CONSUMO DE ENERGÍA Y CALIDAD DE SERVICIO DE UNA RED DE SENSORES EN UN ENTORNO ACUÁTICO

Abstract

Shrimp growth and health, in aquaculture, are affected by changes in environmental and water quality parameters, such as, temperature and dissolved oxygen. Presently, parameter collection and data measurement are done manually. This paper proposes a prototype sensor network for shrimp farm whose nodes are interconnected wirelessly. The XBee modules used in this work can be configured to reduce power consumption. The network's design takes advantage of the mesh topology which can raise data transmission reliability. The network was tested in real environments like tanks and farms, where multiple nodes were placed on floating platforms to obtain, transmit and gather water temperature data. Our results are encouraging and demonstrate the possibilities to exploit low-cost electronics for smart-shrimp-farming.