The important role of sensors in the construction of agricultural Internet of things system

The important role of sensors in the construction of agricultural Internet of things system

In traditional agriculture, people have limited access to farmland information, mainly through manual measurement, which requires a lot of manpower.

For example, in the greenhouse cultivation of edible fungi, people have noticed the effect of CO2 concentration and temperature and humidity on crop growth at the beginning, but basically follow the old method, waste manpower every day, and let the staff go to each greenhouse to detect the CO2 concentration with a CO2 detector. To turn on the fan, to open the side windows and sunroofs.

In recent years, with the development of smart agriculture and precision agriculture, the application of IoT technologies such as intelligent sensing chips and remote control systems in modern agriculture has gradually expanded.

By using wireless sensor networks, manpower consumption and the impact on the farmland environment can be effectively reduced, and accurate crop environment and crop information can be obtained. In modern agriculture, a large number of sensor nodes form a monitoring network with different functions. Collecting information through various sensors can help farmers find problems in time and accurately capture the location of the problem.

As a result, agriculture has gradually shifted from a production model centered on manpower, from a production model that relied on isolated machinery to a production model centered on information technology means and software, and a large number of automated, intelligent, and remote-controlled production equipment is used. Promote the transformation of agricultural production methods.

In monitoring crop irrigation, soil air changes, environmental conditions of livestock and poultry houses, and large-scale surface testing, collecting temperature, humidity, wind, atmosphere, rainfall, soil moisture, soil nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium content and PH value, etc. Sensing technology is playing an increasingly important role in the development of precision agriculture, so as to achieve scientific monitoring, rational planting, help farmers fight and reduce disasters, improve comprehensive agricultural benefits, and promote the transformation and upgrading of modern agriculture.

The new soil moisture sensor developed by NiuBoL can not only accurately collect soil moisture content information, but also adopt a special stainless steel process during the production of the probe, which makes the sensor buried in the soil more durable (the probe of a common sensor is buried in The soil is very easy to corrode and rust, and it cannot work properly). IoT sensor products make the development of smart agriculture further, and the basic functions are more solid and more secure.