Category: Smart Agriculture

The IoT Marketplace by Libelium shows at IoT Solutions World Congress more than 100 solutions to improve sustainability and competitiveness

<p> Libelium participates in IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona with The IoT Marketplace as the guest star of the booth. This online store actually offers<strong> more than 100 kits</strong> ready to be deployed, including hardware devices and software visualization, for different applications that <strong>improve the sustainability and the competitiveness. </strong>The most demanded solutions exhibited revolves around monitoring different agriculture crops, water quality management, fish farms supervision, air quality control, applications for smart buildings and factories, fire and flood prevention, smart parking, among others. </p> <a rel="prettyPhoto-img[43094]" title="Libelium is present at The IoT Solutions World Congress 2018" href="https://web-libelium.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/09/libelium_iot_rrss.jpg"><img src="https://web-libelium.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/09/libelium_iot_rrss.jpg" alt="Libelium is present at The IoT Solutions World Congress 2018" width="500" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43139" /></a> <p> The IoT Solutions World Congress, to be held in Barcelona between the 16^th and the 18^th October 2018, is <strong>a unique event dedicated exclusively to join IoT providers with different productive sectors</strong> to increase their productivity via this disruptive technology. Read more. </p>

Libelium adds Gill Instruments’ professional weather stations to its agriculture solution

<p> Libelium enlarges its portfolio by <strong>adding 14 new professional weather stations</strong> from its partner <a href="https://gillinstruments.com/" title="Gill Instruments" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gill Instruments</a>. In June 2018, <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/libeliums-new-smart-agriculture-xtreme-sensor-node-provides-maximum-accuracy-for-crop-monitoring/" title="Libelium’s new Smart Agriculture Xtreme Sensor Node Provides Maximum Accuracy for Crop Monitoring">Libelium launched the new Smart Agriculture Xtreme sensor node</a>, a solution which featured 19 sensors from the most prestigious and reliable manufacturers such as Gill Instruments, Apogee, Decagon and Ecomatik. </p> <p> Given the success of this integration, Libelium and Gill Instruments decided to amplify their collaboration by <strong>integrating all MaxiMet weather stations line</strong> to <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/" title="Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture Xtreme">Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture Xtreme</a>. Read more. </p>

Libelium’s new Smart Agriculture Xtreme Sensor Node Provides Maximum Accuracy for Crop Monitoring

<p> Responding to <strong>the growing demand of precision</strong> from the smart agriculture devices market, <strong>Libelium releases a new version of its Smart Agriculture sensor node</strong> improving <strong>maximum accuracy</strong> for crop monitoring. The enhanced <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/" title="Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture Xtreme">Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture Xtreme</a> device includes <strong>top market performance sensors</strong> for the most exigent field applications such as vineyards, fruit orchards and greenhouse cultivations, among others. </p> <p> The new solution features <strong>19 sensors from the most prestigious and reliable manufacturers</strong> of agricultural technology such as <strong>Apogee, Decagon, Ecomatik and Gill Instruments</strong>. This integration enables the measuring of different parameters related to weather conditions, light and radiation levels, soil morphology, fertilizers presence, frost prevention, daily growth of plants and fruits and other environmental parameters to improve crop quality production and to prevent harvest losses. <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/libeliums-new-smart-agriculture-xtreme-sensor-node-provides-maximum-accuracy-for-crop-monitoring/" title="Read more">Read more</a>. </p>

Libelium presents a white paper with 50 real IoT success stories after ten years of experience in the market

<p>With the aim to unveil its horizontal approach to the IoT market, Libelium has launched a new white paper to <strong>present 50 real smart projects deployed in 120 countries all over the world</strong>. The IoT company has summarized its most successful and appealing stories, developed with Libelium technology and its partners ecosystem, for <strong>the main verticals of the market</strong>. The white paper includes real IoT projects for Environment care, water management, precission agriculture, smart cities, parking management, smart building, smart factory, logistics, retail and eHealth. Read more.</p>

Comparing the Professional VS the Maker Sensor Lines for Agriculture and Water Monitoring

<p>In Libelium’s product portfolio is possible to find different options to control and measure agriculture and water parameters. On the one hand, Libelium offers professional solutions based in our own designed platform <strong>Waspmote: Smart Agriculture</strong> and <strong>Smart Water</strong>, on the other hand, we have designed two Arduino based cheap alternatives for makers: <strong>Open Aquarium</strong> and <strong>Open Garden</strong> that are distributed by Cooking Hacks – Libelium’s open hardware division.</p> <p>In this article, we will go through the main differences between them to <strong>help Libelium’s customers to choose the platform that suits best their needs</strong>. Read more.</p>

Smart Water Sensors to monitor water quality in rivers, lakes and the sea

Libelium launched a Smart Water wireless sensor platform to simplify remote water quality monitoring. Equipped with multiple sensors that measure a dozen of the most relevant water quality parameters such as pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) conductivity (salinity), temperature and dissolved ions such as Ca2+, Cl-, I-. Waspmote Smart Water is the first water quality-sensing platform to feature autonomous nodes that connect to the Cloud for real-time water control.

Waspmote to create a complete Smart Agriculture system

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">Agriculture not only suffers the impacts of climate change, it is also responsible for 14 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Hit by the worst drought in 60 year this year, the Horn of Africa is suffering from famine and hunger. Figures compiled by the Department for International Development (DfID) suggest that between 50,000 and 100,000 people, more than half of them children under five, died in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/18/east-africa-drought-disaster-report">2011 Horn of Africa</a> crisis that affected Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/waspmote/">Waspmote</a> can be used to monitor different environmental parameters related to agriculture such as temperature, humidity, soil temperature/humidity, weather station, leaf wetness and many other parameters. The monitoring of these parameters allows to minimize time and money as well as maximize agriculture results.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">Researchers from Grupo Austen, a Spanish company, have developed a system called 'Siega System' that allows to monitor in real-time a bunch of variables in order to create a whole Smart Agriculture system.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"> </p>

New Waspmote Sensor Board enables extreme precision agriculture in vineyards and greenhouses

<p>The new Agriculture Sensor Board for Libelium’s award-winning Waspmote platform enables very precise <strong>irrigation</strong> and climate control for <strong>vineyards</strong> and <strong>greenhouses</strong> by monitoring up to 14<strong> </strong>environmental parameters: air temperature, air humidity, soil temperature, soil moisture, leaf wetness, atmospheric pressure, solar radiation, trunk/stem/fruit diameter, wind speed, wind direction and rainfall.</p> <p>This sophisticated monitoring brings extreme precision to crop growing in vineyards and greenhouses by enabling irrigation and climate control to be matched to local conditions. </p>