Wireless sensor technology usage areas in livestock farming over the world and in Turkey

Year 2015, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 933 - 942, 01.12.2015

Pınar Kırıcı

Abstract

In our century the greatest and most important innovations occur at telecommunication industry. Lately, telecommunication is a vital incident for people, they need to communicate basicly by transmitting files or chatting at every place like farms, homes, warehouses, stores, hospitals, schools and cafes. To provide these needs of people, the easiest and cheapest technology is wireless network technology. With the help of the wireless technology, people can share data whenever they want and wherever they are, even they are mobile. The technology allows us to connect workstations, laptops, mobile phones, handheld PCs and even bar code scanners. Besides, agriculture and farming is the backbone of a country, thus the farmers should follow the recent developments about technology to provide the needs of ever increasing human population with decreasing lands for agriculture and farming. Today, the basic aim is to lower the costs and provide healthy products as seed, farm animals, vegetables and fruits. In the paper, latest improvements in agriculture and farming is examined briefly, in the way of technological developments which are a few years old and new implementations over the world and in Turkey. The investigations are basicly focused on wireless sensor network usage since the sensor technology is very suitable for health and environment monitoring of both people and animals. In America and Europe, sensor technology is used for more than ten years intensively but in Turkey only big livestock farms use such a delicate and advantageous technology for only a few years, in spite of the computer and network using number of people permanently increases in Turkey. In the paper, it is mentioned that the construction of sensor systems in the farms is very easy and useful for the farmers’ budget and also for the economy of a country

Keywords

Wireless sensor technology, livestock farming, monitoring, farming in Turkey

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