Abstract
The agri-food sector is in constantly renewing, continuously demanding new systems that facilitate farmers´ work. Efficient agricultural practices are essential to increasing farm profitability, and reducing water consumption can be achieved by real-time monitoring of water needs. However, the prices of automatic systems for collecting data from several sources (soil and climate) are expensive and their autonomy is very low. This paper presents a low-consumption solution using the Internet of Things (IoT) based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and long-range wide-area network (LoRaWAN) technologies. By means of low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) communication, a farmer can monitor the state of crops in real time thanks to a large number of sensors connected wirelessly and distributed across the farm. The wireless sensor node developed, called BoXmote, exhibits very low power, since it has been optimized both in terms of hardware and software. The result is a higher degree of autonomy than commercial motes. This will allow the farmer to have access to all of the information necessary to achieve an efficient irrigation management of his crops with full autonomy.
Highlights
Some of the main problems that the world population faces today, and on which researchers from all over the world are working, are globalization, global warming, and the supply of food
The farmer does not have to worry about the maintenance of the device during the months of maximum work, being able to devote his time to other tasks
Given the importance of a high autonomy of the device in agriculture, in this study we focused on quantifying the consumption of our BoXmote, performing a consumption test in the laboratory
Summary
Some of the main problems that the world population faces today, and on which researchers from all over the world are working, are globalization, global warming, and the supply of food. -called smart agriculture or digital agriculture uses intelligent networks and data management tools to employ all of the information and experience available in order to enable the automation of sustainable processes in agriculture This agriculture is based on connected and knowledge-based agricultural production systems and makes great use of information and communication technologies (ICT), both for data collection and for subsequent processing. For this reason, the design and implementation of efficient and economic devices in agriculture are currently an important line of research [5]
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