A monitoring system for intensive agriculture based on mesh networks and the android system

One of the most important changes in the southeast Spanish lands is the switch from traditional agriculture to agriculture based on the exploitation of intensive farmlands. For this type of farming, it is important to use techniques that improve plantation performance. Web applications, databases and advanced mobile systems facilitate real-time data acquisition for effective monitoring. Moreover, open-source systems save money and facilitate a greater degree of integration and better application development based on the system's robustness and widespread utility for several engineering fields. This paper presents an application for Android tablets that interacts with an advanced control system based on Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl or Python (LAMP) to collect and monitor variables applied in precision agriculture. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.