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A Design and Development Experience of an Internet of Things Platform to Monitor Site-Specific Weather Conditions at the Farm Level

Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org

Citation:  Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 37(4): 691-700. (doi: 10.13031/aea.14005) @2021
Authors:   Thiago Borba Onofre, Clyde W Fraisse, Janise McNair, Jasmeet Judge, Lincoln Zotarelli, Natalia A Peres
Keywords:   Affordable, Farm, Internet of Things, Mesh Network, Prototype, Wireless Sensor Network.

Highlights

  • We present an Internet of Things (IoT) platform to monitor site-specific weather conditions at the farm level.
  • We built a distributed mesh network of sensor nodes using open-source and open-hardware tools.
  • We tested different communication range scenarios and installation setups.
  • Emerging IoT technologies are susceptible to failure but have the potential to improve site-specific data collection.

Abstract. This article describes the design, deployment, and evaluation of an Internet of Things (IoT) platform to monitor site-specific weather conditions at the farm level using wireless sensor networks (WSN). A distributed mesh network of sensor nodes was developed using open-source software and hardware tools to monitor temperature and relative humidity in-field environmental conditions. The IoT prototype was tested at the University of Florida‘s research farm. Data from the sensor nodes were compared to a Florida Automated Weather Network weather station. The results of this study will contribute to the implementation of site-specific collection tools and with site-specific decision management in specialty crop production systems. A significant advantage of IoT and WSN over a standalone weather station is the capability to monitor micro-weather conditions that may lead to site-specific management operations.

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