Abstract
This paper describes Agri-Snaps, an Internet of Things (IoT) agriculture monitoring system designed to improve farmers’ acceptance of using IoT technology in their farm field. Agri-Snaps consists of four dedicated sensor circuit modules that integrate magnetic pogo pin connectors for easier assembly with the controller circuit module. This work investigated how such a design can enable the farmers to understand how 1) to assemble, 2) self-troubleshoot, and 3) maintain the monitoring system independently without requiring expertise on the farm site. User-experience testing was conducted with ten participants to validate Agri-Snaps’s viability. The results showed that those participants positively rated Agri-Snaps as attractive, easy to understand and assemble, exciting, and innovative compared to the typical agriculture monitoring systems.
Highlights
Internet of Things (IoT) is driving change in agriculture
This work focuses on designing and developing a simple and intuitive IoT agriculture monitoring system that allows the farmers to understand how to implement it without much effort
The results suggested that participants may have difficulty predicting where the sensor modules should be snapped together with the controller module as 40% of participants rated Agri-Snaps as neither unpredictable nor predictable, 10% found it to be neither obstructive nor destructive and neither meet their expectation or not, and 20% felt Agri-Snaps as neither insecure nor secure
Summary
Internet of Things (IoT) is driving change in agriculture. It enables sensors on a farm to remotely monitor and give realtime data to the farmer, such as detecting the current environmental conditions [1]. The implementation of IoT allows the farmers to increase farm production effectively throughout the year. In line with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0), farmers are always encouraged to implement smart farming using IoT technology for better decision making [2, 3]. Most farmers are still hesitant to adopt IoT on their farm sites and prefer traditional farming practices, resulting in lower crop yields [4]. A deeper investigation revealed 4 main reasons why farmers were not ready to implement IoT in their farm fields [2, 5]: 1) the level of education required to become familiar with the technology, 2) the lack of engineering skills needed to install the system, 3)
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