Simulation of temperature measurement system for grain storage based on ZigBee technology

Nowadays, the applications of WSNs are many and varied, and the applications in agriculture are still incipient. In this paper, we explore the feasibility of ZigBee technology for the measurement system in large-scale barns. According to traditional grain-temperature monitoring system and theory on attenuation of radio frequencies in grain, we propose the grain-temperature monitoring system using ZigBee technology. To evaluate the feasibility and the challenges of develop this system, some simulating experiments were designed. The results show that with the right selection of parameters it is an alternative solution to grain-temperature monitoring system using ZigBee technology and some future work also need to be done to optimize this system.