Mimos Bhd and Oracle Corporation Malaysia are collaborating to develop and deploy a sensor grid pilot project for the agriculture industry under KnowledgeGRID Malaysia, a Mimos initiative. The sensor-based grid technology is currently in the initial testing phase and is scheduled to run its beta testing by the second quarter of this year.

The project aimed to develop applications for the preventive and proactive management in agriculture, including real-time crop monitoring, analysis, and proactive and preventive care solutions for crops. Crop data gathered using Mimos’ wireless precision sensors would be used to measure the soil nutrients in a certain plot of land. The data would be stored using Oracle’s database technology. Analysis of the data could then be used to measure the exact amount of fertiliser needed, the types of crops suitable for certain plots of land and so forth.

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Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems is to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, between September 29 - October 2, 2008.

The IEEE MASS 2008 aims at addressing advances in research on multi-hop ad-hoc and sensor networks, covering topics ranging from technology issues to applications and test-bed development. The preliminary Call for Papers, Workshops and Demos is available here.
IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstracts Due: March 14, 2008
Manuscripts Due: March 21, 2008
Acceptance Notification: June 20, 2008
Camera-ready Submission: July 18, 2008