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Design and Implementation of the Management System of Cultivation and Tracking for Agricultural Products using USN

유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크를 이용한 농산물 재배관리 및 이력추적 시스템의 설계 및 구현

  • Published : 2009.09.15
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Abstract

Recently, there has been much research and many attempts to enhance converged information technology services using new technology such as ubiquitous sensor networks (USN) in medical, environmental, industrial, and logistic areas. There has also been much research and various attempts to apply this new technology to agricultural areas. However, applications to the agricultural areas should be considered differently against the same areas such as medical, environmental, industrial, and logistics. Therefore, this paper suggests that an agricultural cultivating management and traceability system. This system is a unified system that supports the processes sowing seeds through selling agricultural products to consumers. Farmers can be provided with an effective calendar for cultivation and weather information in real time as well as the monitoring of the growth of farm products on the farm in real time using this system. Farmers can also control all equipment installed on the farm directly or remotely and the equipment can be controlled automatically when the measured values such as temperature and humidity deviate from the decent criteria which are set by farmers or this system. Additionally, the reliability for and the better quality of the agricultural products can be improved because farmers can use this unified system to cover all processes from sowing seeds to selling to consumers.

최근 군사, 의료, 환경, 산업 현장, 물류 분야 등에서 유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크와 같은 신기술을 적용한 진보된 IT융합 서비스들에 대한 연구와 시도가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 농업 분야에서도 다양한 형태의 많은 연구가 진행되고, 또한 실제로 현장에 적용되고 있다. 그러나 농업 분야에서의 적용은 의료, 산업, 유통 분야 등과 같은 기존의 적용 환경과는 다른 고려가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크 기술을 적용한 사용자(농민) 중심의 농산물 생산, 가공, 유통 및 판매가 통합된 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안된 시스템은 농작물의 최초 파종 단계에서부터 해당 농산물이 소비자에게 판매되기 이전까지 진행되는 모든 과정을 지원하는 통합화된 서비스이다. 사용자는 이 시스템을 이용하여 영농활동에 필요한 각종 재배력, 기상 상황 정보 등을 실시간으로 제공 받을 뿐 아니라, 재배되고 있는 농산물에 대한 각종 상황 정보를 실시간으로 모니터링 할 수 있으며, 재배지에 설치되어 있는 각종 영농 시설물들을 직접 혹은 원격지에서 제어하거나, 사용자가 지정한 임계값을 벗어나는 경우 자동으로 제어 될 수 있도록 한다. 또한 농산물의 생산, 저장, 유통 및 최종 판매 단계까지 연결되고 일원화된 시스템을 사용할 수 있도록 하여, 해당 농산물에 대한 신뢰도 및 품질의 향상을 가질 수 있도록 하였다.

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