@article{ref1,
title="A real-time, wireless pressure monitoring system for bucking bulls",
journal="Procedia engineering",
year="2012",
author="Li, Siyu and Wang, Ning and Gao, Hongju and Pang, Shujie",
volume="29",
number="",
pages="2809-2813",
abstract="To evaluate the animal welfare, many ranchers would like to know the pressure on the animals due to the holsters and ropes. In this paper, a wireless real-time pressure monitoring system was designed based on wireless sensor network. The system consists of several pressure sensor nodes and a sink to coordinate the whole network, collect data from pressure sensor nodes and send the data to PC. An ultra-thin pressure sensor was integrated in the smart moteplatform to form the pressure sensor node. TinyOS, an open-source operating system and nesC language, an extension to C were applied for programming. In the lab test, the result of sensor calibration shows it has a good linearity and the packet delivery rate test verify that the system could operate stably and reliably in a better acceptable link quality. For better presenting to users, an information monitoring interface was used based on MATLAB as a simple demonstration of the whole system.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1877-7058",
doi="10.1016/j.proeng.2012.01.395",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2012.01.395"
}