WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS IN MALAYSIA

Borhanuddin Mohd Ali,

NEST, UPM

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Introduction,

Interest in WSN,

National Centre of Excellence (NEST),

WSN in agriculture,

The way forward,

Conclusion.

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INTRODUCTION

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Vision 2020

Knowledge -Based Society

Access to Infostructure

Enrichment of Information, knowledge and applications

NATIONAL VISION

Where ICT as driver for restructuring of economy and employment Prerequisites include access to infostructure and development of

Information, knowledge and applications

To move towards a knowledge-based society and economy

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Thrust 1To Move The Economy Up The Value Chain

To Raise The Capacity For Knowledge And Innovation And Nurture 'First Class Mentality'

To Address Persistent Socio-economic Inequalities Constructively And Productively

To Improve The Standard And

Sustainability Of Quality Of Life

To Strengthen The Institutional And Implementation

Capacity

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Thrust 33

Thrust 5 5

Thrust 4 4

Thrust 22

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CHAPTER 5: Main streaming Information and communications technology

Upgrading and expanding ICT infrastructure

THRUST ONE: TO MOVE THE ECONOMY UP THE VALUE CHAIN

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INTEREST IN WSN

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3 MAIN INFRASTRUCTURE TO BE FOCUSED UNDER 9MP

1 BROADBAND

2 IPv6

3 SENSOR TECHNOLOGY

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Sensor Technologies + Short Range Communications + MyICMS886

Sensor Technologies + Short Range Communications + MyICMS886

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)

National Centre of Excellence on Sensor Technology

Roadmap

System Architecture

Application Development

Pilot Project

K-repository system

Promotion & Awareness

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NATIONAL CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN SENSOR TECHNOLOGY (NEST)

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NEST

MEWC (now MoICC) invited bids from qualified institutions to become the consultant to its programs,

UPM was finally selected and recognised as its CoE in WSN called NEST,

NEST is to assist MEWC to achieve their objectives as set above,

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NEST shall provide advise to the government on the promotion of this technology in the country,

NEST developed the WSN Roadmap, Knowledge Repository, Training Modules, and identified a few application areas for Proof of Concept – precision agriculture, slope monitoring, logistics and transport.

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• High technology-readiness and small technology gap for sensor related technology in the identified sectors

• Emerging technology patents• Global technology and market scenario• Malaysia’s initiative• Malaysia’s user readiness

AGRICULTURE

Structure and Infrastructure

Monitoring

Transport and Logistic

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WSN IN AGRICULTURE

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GW

Sensor node

GatewayRelay

MOSTI(e.g.MIMOS)

NationalCoE

MoICC

Internet

Lead Agency(E.g.: MoA)

MoICC

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Mimos developed MEMS sensors for use in agriculture – soil contents, humidity, etc.

Demonstrated the feasibility of WSN in an oil palm plantation,

Developing PoC with agriculture institutions in Malaysia – Agri Department, R&D institutions, UPM and private farms,

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Use of Satellites Data by MACRES, UPM and other institutions,

Use of WSN by NEST, UPM and various other players,

Other institutions involved in WSN: UTM, Uniten, UTeM, MMU, UTP, etc.

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Envision PA as an end to end solution, from farm to knowledge base,

Knowledge Base through WSN is gathered to provide informed decision for good farm management,

Transforming traditional farmers to more advanced “agronomists”.

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Conducted PoC on different types of farms; high value food crops, commodity.– Tomatoes, Chillies – fertilizer, soil conditions, humidity

monitoring and control,

– Oil Palm – nitride level (fertilizer),

– Paddy – land leveling, water leveling, fertilizer,

Initial works to identify the sites and partners have been done, and the next stage will start soon.

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NEST helps to propose WSN in agriculture as 1 potential source of economic growth in the future,

A technology that would spur new economic activities for the country in the future,

A local working group under MYREN should be reactivated to revive joint works in this area, and extent this to collaborate with international partners.

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WSN is a promising technology for a wide array of applications,

WSN in agriculture shows great potential to move the industry up the value chain, increase yield and value add products,

A complete eco system is required in order to sustain the use of this technology – market demand, government support and right policy, technology supply , and R&D support.

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THANK YOU

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