IoT Use Cases
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Farming, Survival Instinct
How many days do you think you can survive without eating? In the best case, you will last three weeks. Nowadays, survival is not the only issue; Rather, it is important to receive the essential nutrients to maintain health. According to research by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, if food production does not increase by 70% by 2050, we will all face a serious health threat due to the world's population increasing. Agriculture and aquaculture are two very important global food production industries that can address this problem.
Internet of Things, Champion of Disrupt
To increase food production in the agriculture and aquaculture industries, we can increase the cultivation areas or the number of employees. But these are limited resources that cause further problems. However, the most sustainable solutions are based on optimizing the current infrastructure with the help of new technologies.
IoT technology plays a key role in the development of smart city, smart building, smart energy, and smart farming solutions. Using the Internet of Things (IoT) and other technologies including artificial intelligence and machine learning in farming optimization will result in the optimal use of resources, increase product efficiency, and reduce operating costs. Here, you can see some impressive IoT applications for smart farming:
Smart Agriculture:
- Using drones for irrigation and spraying
- Monitoring soil and product quality by sensors
- Smart irrigation in fields and greenhouses
- Real-time monitoring and weather forecast
- Smart greenhouse management
- Tracking agricultural equipment
Smart Aquaculture:
- Smart feeder remote controlling and planning
- Smart aerator based on oxygen status
- Monitoring water quality including temperature and oxygen
- Monitoring and controlling farms and aquariums conditions
- Improving security through virtual fences and cameras
- Real-time tracking for equipment and workers
You probably have a thousand other ideas reaching your creative mind now that you know better about the rising energy market and the power of IoT in this sector. But, when applying IoT capabilities to implement your ideas, you will need certain skills and tools. Thingspod can be a dreamy tool to make your ideas come true!
ThingsPod, the Ideal Tool
ThingsPod is a comprehensive Internet of Things platform for managing your IoT devices, which makes processing, storing, and displaying data fast, easy, and delightful.
You can send all sorts of data related to the vehicle location, cargo status, and driver behavior to the ThingsPod platform using smart devices (nodes). Thingspod supports many web protocols such as MQTT, HTTP, and CoAP and other industrial protocols such as Modbus, OPC-UA, and LoRaWAN. Then, you will be able to process your data from fleet devices through platform programming blocks and display the information by default widgets.
In ThingsPod, you can manage farming in the following ways:
- Collecting different data from agricultural and aquacultural sensors
- Using Rules Engine for processing the gathered data and generating alerts
- Calculating data and sending information to external systems
- Displaying historical or real-time data by flexible dashboards
- Defining Roles for managing users’ access to devices and dashboards
- Remote control and OTA update for smart devices
- Sending information with custom frameworks to external user apps
- Achieving all initiatives with almost no coding!
ThingsPod Smart Farming Dashboard
This demo of a multi-layered dashboard includes the following features:
- The list and status of each greenhouse
- Displaying temperature, humidity, light, and wind outside of the greenhouse
- Displaying temperature, humidity, light, and wind inside each greenhouse
- Generating alarms for parameters exceeding the standard limit
- Displaying an image map for each greenhouse
- Controlling the fan and irrigation system manually and automatically
- Displaying the status of the equipment on the image map
ThingsPod Roadmap
In the diagram below, we show the development process of a smart farming solution, including transferring the device’s data to the platform directly or through intermediary systems and processing and storing information before sending it to the application layer (and vice versa).
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Data Collection
Collecting and storing telemetry and attribute data with high reliability through MQTT, HTTP, and CoAP protocols to protect data from network and hardware failure.
Rule Engine
Processing input data through creating rule chains by dragging and dropping pre-programmed blocks regarding alarm activation, transferring messages to external systems, filtering and transporting messages, analyzing, etc.
Multi-Workspace
Supporting multi-tenant and multi-workspace to allow one user to have different roles in several dashboards while being able to create millions of user, customer, and device groups in each separate workspace.
Assigning Role
Assigning multiple roles to users and customers individually or in groups to define their access levels to platform resources, including dashboards, devices, etc.
Data Visualization
More than ten different default/customizable widget categories: alarm displays, graphs, digital and analog gauges, maps, control tools, etc.
Management and security
Registering, managing, and grouping devices in assets while supporting encryption in the transmission layer and providing API for server-side applications to send RPC requests.
Edge Computing
Providing all the platform’s features on the edge where data is created. Automatically synchronized with the cloud platform to increase reliability and reduce latency in times of unstable communication network.
Solution Template
Ready-to-use templates of pre-designed scenarios in fleet tracking, smart office, air quality monitoring, etc. fields to reduce errors and enhance creativity while developing similar projects.