Agricultural LoRA sensor network applied to soil moisture monitoring for fertigation-based production

Mestrado de dupla diplomação com a Université Libre de Tunis ; The global water crisis is one of the serious threats that human being is facing and especially farmers due to a variety of environment issues. This growing trend of water scarcity led to the existence of the efficiency of irrigation systems for agricultural proposes using electronic sensors and performance systems to precise the amount of water for the growth of plants. However, currently, some automation attempts led to a sub-optimal solution as they do not take into account the vegetative development state of the plants and the small differences in environmental conditions present inside greenhouses. In this project, the work is based on developping a monitoring system based on measurement nodes for real-time monitoring temperature, and humidity. Open-source hardware and sensors was use to create the measurement nodes using LoRa WAN a wireless sensor network. The aim of this work is to create a network of sensors inside a greenhouse in order to obtain regularly updated information. The data is going to be useful since is easy to utilize by the farmers directly from a platform. Measurement node, communicating in real-time through LoRa, will transmit data to the gateway which will then be displayed on a dashboard. ; The classic internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks which carries a vast range of information resources and services in which HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the first protocol used to transfer hypertext data, from server to the end customer. The classic internet is thus based on the internet of data. On the other hand, the internet of things (IoT), is a new tool for connectivity and mobility, that is to transform business and is helpful in daily life to connect objects. Nowadays, common objects become active and intelligent, integrating seamlessly into a global network and can produce and exchange useful data without the intervention of humans. It’s a network of networks that allows us to identify and ...