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Sensors 2010, 10, 11189-11211; doi:10.3390/s101211189 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Study on an Agricultural Environment Monitoring Server System using Wireless Sensor Networks Jeonghwan Hwang, Changsun Shin and Hyun Yoe * School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sunchon National University, Maegok-dong, Suncheon-si, Jeollanam-do, Korea; E-Mails: jhwang @sunchon.ac.kr (J.H.); csshin@sunchon.ac.kr (C.S.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: yhyun@sunchon.ac.kr; Tel.: +82-61-750-3591; Fax: +82-61-750-3590. Received: 2 November 2010; in revised form: 18 November 2010 / Accepted: 7 December 2010 / Published: 8 December 2010 Abstract: This paper proposes an agricultural environment monitoring server system for monitoring information concerning an outdoors agricultural production environment utilizing Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology. The proposed agricultural environment monitoring server system collects environmental and soil information on the outdoors through WSN-based environmental and soil sensors, collects image information through CCTVs, and collects location information using GPS modules. This collected information is converted into a database through the agricultural environment monitoring server consisting of a sensor manager, which manages information collected from the WSN sensors, an image information manager, which manages image information collected from CCTVs, and