An IOT-based Multi-sensor Ecological Shared Farmland Management System

Abstract

With the wide adoption of a shared economy, the term “share” has become closely linked with people’s daily life. To improve the economicoutput per unit area of farmland and allow urban residents to experience the funof cultivating, an IOT-based multi-sensor ecological shared farmland managementsystem is presented and designed in this paper. Furthermore, the systemalso presents an agricultural economy model that shares planting and gains byremote control. This system consists of multiple sensors for data collection, automaticallycontrolled equipment, a transport module (with a ZigBee moduleand a WiFi module), an app-based smart monitoring and control module and aWeChat public platform. Various monitoring data, including air temperatureand humidity, soil humidity, illuminance, CO2 concentration, pH, real-timevideo and images, are collected for users to ensure an optimal crop growing environmentvia remote control and by sharing agricultural products in harvestingseasons. Sharing functions such as picking, leasing and transferring are implementedvia the WeChat public platform. Not only is detailed information onvegetables growing in rented farmland available remotely via RFID electronictags and multiple sensors, but the real-time growing state of the planted crops isalso available via camera. Control of functions such as irrigating, fertilizing andshading is also supported. The test shows that in this system, the data collectedvia multiple sensors are accurate; real-time information is transmitted and managedsmoothly