Review Article

The State-of-the-Art of Knowledge-Intensive Agriculture: A Review on Applied Sensing Systems and Data Analytics

Table 2

The state-of-the-art of the sensing platforms in agriculture (Ojha et al. [2]).

FeatureMICAZTelosBIRISLOTUSImote2SunSPOT

ProcessorATmega128IMSP430ATmega128Cortex M3 LPC 17xxMarvell/XScalePXA271ARM 920T
Clock speed (MHz)7.3736.7177.37310–10013–416180
Bus width (bits)8168323232
System memory (kB)410464256512
Operating frequency band (MHz)240024002400240024002400
Transceiver chipCC2420CC2420Atmel RF230Atmel RF231CC2420802.15.4
Number of channelsProgrammableProgrammableProgrammableIn steps of 5 MHz
Data rate (kbps)250250250250250250
I/O connectivityUART, I2C, SPI, DIOUART, I2C, SPI, DIOUART, I2C, SPI, DIO3xUART, SPI, I2C, I2S, GPIO, ADCUART3x, SPI2x, I2C, I2S, GPIO, DIO, JTAGDIO, I2C, GPIO