Fast and Intelligent Irrigation System Based on WSN

Table 3

General assessment of different techniques.

	Advantages	Disadvantages
Manual technique; Wu et al. [27]; Jawhar et al. [23]	Need a real-time information	Not applicable to underwater applications
		Complex & costly
Wired technique; Wong et al. [35]	Faster & secure compared to a wireless network	Rapidly technique failure
		Hard access to pipeline region
SCADA; Cheng et al. [30]; Enache et al. [36]	Rapid installation	Lower sense ranging
	Adaptable for application with short range	Single point of system failure
WSNs; Kartakis et al. [37]; Cai et al. [38]	Portable & scalable	High conception in energy
	Low corrosion	Sensitive & not reliable