In the last years, Precision Farming and Farm Automation in Agricultural field, have
been requesting short range wireless communication systems for machine
synchronization and long range wireless communication for fleet management, and
for production and task control in real time. Existing protocols can meet the
requirements only partially: different legislation and product availability in different
countries make it difficult to identify a solution for the global market. TCP/IP
protocol and GPRS/GSM networks meet some requirements for long range
communication, but not for real time communication needed for short range
communication. The synchronization specifications require a real time wireless
communication protocol affordable, safe and with low latency, in order to ensure a
minimum guaranteed throughput apt to synchronize the machine work and travel.
Moreover there are some information security requirements to fulfill in order to
guarantee safe data transmission. The paper presents a comprehensive proposal based
on UDP and IP protocols with embedded controls, apt to create an isochronous
wireless communication for machine synchronization, and some other methods and
protocols to fulfill long range data communication requirements of the Agricultural
field