Monitoring different parameters of interest in a crop has been proven as a useful tool to improve
agricultural production. Crop monitoring in precision agriculture may be achieved by a multiplicity of
technologies; however the use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) results in low-cost and low-power
consumption deployments, therefore becoming a dominant option. It is also well-known that crops are
also negatively affected by intruders (human or animals) and by insufficient control of the production
process. Video-surveillance is a solution to detect and identify intruders as well as to better take care of the
production process. In this paper, a new platform called Integrated WSN Solution for Precision Agriculture is
proposed. The only cost-effective technology employed is IEEE 802.15.4, and it efficiently integrates crop
data acquisition, data transmission to the end-user and video-surveillance tasks. This platform has been
evaluated for the particular scenario of scattered crops video-surveillance by using computer simulation
and analysis. The telecommunications metrics of choice are energy consumed, probability of frame collision
and end-to-end latency, which have been carefully studied to offer the most appropriate wireless
network operation. Wireless node prototypes providing agriculture data monitoring, motion detection,
camera sensor and long distance data transmission (in the order of several kilometers) are developed.
The performance evaluation of this real tests-bed scenario demonstrates the feasibility of the platform
designed and confirms the simulation and analytical results.