<![CDATA[Monitoring pest insect population is currently an important issue in crop protection. At farm level insect population monitoring is consistently operated by repeated surveys by a human operator of adhesive traps, disseminated through the field, where insects remain stuck when attracted. This is a laborious and time-consuming activity, and it would be of great advantage for farmers to have an affordable system performing this task automatically. A system based on a distributed imaging device that is able to automatically acquire and transmit images of the trapping area to a remote host station is proposed. The network architecture consists of a master node hosted in a PC and a set of client nodes, spread in the fields, which act as monitoring stations. The master node coordinates the network and retrieves the captured images from the client nodes. A GSM modem which is interfaced with PC through USB port is used to send messages to the particular numbers for required attention in this regard for further action.]]>
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