Smart Mobile LoRa Agriculture System based on Internet of Things

Gutiérrez, Sebastián; Martínez, Israel Rojas; Varona, Jorge; Cardona, Manuel; Espinosa, Ricardo

doi:10.1109/concapanxxxix47272.2019.8977109

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“…In [13], the authors propose a mobile LoRaWAN gateway system that can be used to increase the efficiency and precision of the operations in greenhouses. The technology presented includes Raspberry Pi 3 B+ powered Mini LoRa Gateway from Heltec.…”

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Low-Power Agriculture IoT System with LoRa: Open Field Storage Observation

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Karamzadeh

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Electrical, Control and Communication Engineering

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The last decade has seen multiple research work on the use of LoRaWAN technology in smart agriculture. In open field storage, monitoring is crucial for increasing the logistics efficiency and improving crop quality. As battery maintenance is expensive in such areas, LoRa is a suitable technology that allows for low-power communications. Within the framework of the research, a prototype has been built for tracking goods in open field storage. The battery lifetime has been analysed through calculations and measurements using LoRa communications. Our findings indicate that although sleeping current has the smallest percentage, it has the greatest effect on increasing the battery life, for longer battery life LoRa node must have a low self-discharge battery, and finally, sensors are the main battery depleting factor on the LoRa node.

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“…Due to its low power consumption, a majority of low-power IoT applications for agriculture employ the LoRa technology [13], [15], [16]. Apart from the power consumption of the LoRa module, other factors may also affect the power consumption in the overall system.…”

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Low-Power Agriculture IoT System with LoRa: Open Field Storage Observation

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“…Works [12,13] report the use of STM family microcontrollers (STMicroelectronics, Geneva, Switzerland). There are also works that use nodes based on other development boards such as Zolertia Re-Mote (Zolertia S.L., Barcelona, Spain) [14], Moteino (LowPowerLab LLC, Michigan, MI, USA) [15], and Heltec WiFi LoRa 32 (Heltec Automation, Chengdu, China) [16].…”

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“…In the case of gateways, depending on the type, Lead Acid batteries are chosen due to increased power needs. While in [14] it is reported the the a battery is used as the only power source but no more details were revealed, in [6,16] as well, only a battery is used, reporting the use of a lithium-based battery. In [6,16], LoRa/LoRaWAN communication is used, and a battery may last for long periods of time, but in [14], RF communication is used, and in this case, power consumption is normally high and the use of a battery makes less sense.…”

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“…While in [14] it is reported the the a battery is used as the only power source but no more details were revealed, in [6,16] as well, only a battery is used, reporting the use of a lithium-based battery. In [6,16], LoRa/LoRaWAN communication is used, and a battery may last for long periods of time, but in [14], RF communication is used, and in this case, power consumption is normally high and the use of a battery makes less sense. Interestingly enough, the work in [18] reports the use of energy harvesting to power the nodes, in this case using the energy harvested from an RFID reader.…”

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A Versatile, Low-Power and Low-Cost IoT Device for Field Data Gathering in Precision Agriculture Practices

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Spatial and temporal variability characterization in Precision Agriculture (PA) practices is often accomplished by proximity data gathering devices, which acquire data from a wide variety of sensors installed within the vicinity of crops. Proximity data acquisition usually depends on a hardware solution to which some sensors can be coupled, managed by a software that may (or may not) store, process and send acquired data to a back-end using some communication protocol. The sheer number of both proprietary and open hardware solutions, together with the diversity and characteristics of available sensors, is enough to deem the task of designing a data acquisition device complex. Factoring in the harsh operational context, the multiple DIY solutions presented by an active online community, available in-field power approaches and the different communication protocols, each proximity monitoring solution can be regarded as singular. Data acquisition devices should be increasingly flexible, not only by supporting a large number of heterogeneous sensors, but also by being able to resort to different communication protocols, depending on both the operational and functional contexts in which they are deployed. Furthermore, these small and unattended devices need to be sufficiently robust and cost-effective to allow greater in-field measurement granularity 365 days/year. This paper presents a low-cost, flexible and robust data acquisition device that can be deployed in different operational contexts, as it also supports three different communication technologies: IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee, LoRa/LoRaWAN and GRPS. Software and hardware features, suitable for using heat pulse methods to measure sap flow, leaf wetness sensors and others are embedded. Its power consumption is of only 83 μA during sleep mode and the cost of the basic unit was kept below the EUR 100 limit. In-field continuous evaluation over the past three years prove that the proposed solution—SPWAS’21—is not only reliable but also represents a robust and low-cost data acquisition device capable of gathering different parameters of interest in PA practices.

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The role of low‐power wide‐area network technologies in Internet of Things: A systematic and comprehensive review

Mousavi

Khademzadeh

Rahmani

2021

Int J Communication

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Summary With the quick progress of wireless technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been recognized as the main part of daily people's lives that makes their life more convenient by utilizing a diverse range of smart devices. Over the last decade, various useful and forthcoming application fields have been developed by taking advantage of the IoT concept. In this regard, LPWAN technologies such as LoRa, Sigfox, and NB‐IoT play an important role in advancing. These technologies are suitable wireless communication protocols for battery‐powered IoT objects that enable long‐distance communication in low‐power devices at a low operation cost. Some review papers have investigated the LPWAN technology in the IoT from different perspectives. However, the lack of detailed and systematic study outlining the role of these technologies in different IoT applications is very clear. Consequently, this gap inspired us to write the current study. The current works are classified into three main classes, including smart city, home automation, and smart healthcare. Besides, the involved models in the smart city group are categorized into five subgroups, including smart monitoring, smart metering, air pollution, smart agriculture, and smart parking. The selected works are reviewed, and their main features, including main idea, coverage range, sensor types, processing board, frequency band, communication protocols, power consumption analysis, and achievement, are specified. Generally, our main aim is to describe the challenging problems of applying LPWAN to various IoT applications, specify the efficient models, and recommend some hints for upcoming studies.

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Smart Mobile LoRa Agriculture System based on Internet of Things

Cited by 34 publications

References 23 publications

Low-Power Agriculture IoT System with LoRa: Open Field Storage Observation

Low-Power Agriculture IoT System with LoRa: Open Field Storage Observation

A Versatile, Low-Power and Low-Cost IoT Device for Field Data Gathering in Precision Agriculture Practices

The role of low‐power wide‐area network technologies in Internet of Things: A systematic and comprehensive review

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