Abstract
Conference Title: 2016 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) Conference Start Date: 2016, Aug. 29 Conference End Date: 2016, Sept. 2 Conference Location: Budapest, Hungary Wireless sensor networks are now a credible means for crop data collection. The installation of a fixed communication structure to relay the monitored data from the cluster head to its final destination can either be impractical because of land topology or prohibitive due to high initial cost. A plausible solution is to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) as an alternative means for both data collection and limited supervisory control of sensors status. In this paper, we consider the case of disjoint farming parcels each including clusters of sensors, organized in a predetermined way according to farming objectives. This research focuses to drive an optimal solution for UAV search and data gathering from all sensors installed in a crop field. Furthermore, the sensor routing protocol will take into account a tradeoff between energy management and data dissemination overhead. The proposed system is evaluated by using a simulated model and it should find out a class among all under consideration.