Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) based smart farming applications opens up new opportunities for monitoring the agricultural fields. There are different communication protocols can be used in practice to connect the IoT-enabled devices. Among them, the low-power, wide area network (LPWAN) based protocols are well suited to the specific needs of agricultural applications due to their energy-efficient transmission of small data packets over long distances. This study presents the conceptual design of LoRa based weather monitoring system that can be used to warn the farmers about possible crop damages due to harsh weather conditions. The hardware design of a low-cost weather station has been explained in details. Also, the estimated coverage area of the application to be carried out in order to reduce the risk of apple flowering frost damage risk in Karaman Province, Turkey was evaluated using the Xirio Online radio planning tool. The obtained results have verified the feasibility of proposed weather monitoring system.

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