Internet of animals: On-and off-body propagation analysis for energy efficient WBAN design for dairy cows

Said Benaissa, David Plets, Emmeric Tanghe, Gunter Vermeeren, Luc Martens, Bart Sonck, Frank Tuyttens, Leen Vandaele, Wout Joseph
2017 2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP)   unpublished
This paper presents propagation modelling of different on-body and off-body wireless communication scenarios for dairy cows in barns at 2.4 GHz. Based on the obtained propagation models, a WBAN that monitors multiple health parameters is designed for optimal performances in terms of energy efficiency and packet error rate. Index Terms-Dairy cow, on-and off-body path loss, cow phantom, temporal fading, wireless body area network (WBAN), energy efficieincy. I.
doi:10.23919/eucap.2017.7928112 fatcat:cftaru5z4zeuzoms2cdi4tl7y4