Abstract: It is difficult to acquire the growth information of the crops in the far field.A growth monitoring system for the field crops was designed to solve the problem.The designed system adopted a hybrid architecture which combined the B/S and C/S access mode.It made use of various techniques including ActiveMQ message server and AJAX.The crop growth information can be obtained at fixed time or in real time,and can be presented in multiple ways.The system function can also be deployed dynamically.The results indicate that the presented system was comprehensive,consistent and workable,and it can satisfy all requirements of information acquisition from the filed crops.

Key words: monitoring system, message service, AJAX, infomation collection