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

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 Waspmote: Smart Agriculture and Smart Water, on the other hand, we have designed two Arduino based cheap alternatives for makers: Open Aquarium and Open Garden that are distributed by Cooking Hacks – Libelium’s open hardware division.

In this article, we will go through the main differences between them to help Libelium’s customers to choose the platform that suits best their needs.

So let’s start with the comparative of Libelium water monitoring products: Smart Water VS Open Aquarium.

Smart Water wireless sensor platform simplify remote water quality monitoring. Equipped with multiple sensors that measure a dozen of the most relevant water quality parameters (Temperature, Conductivity, Dissolved Oxygen, pH, Oxidation-reduction potential, Turbidity and Dissolved Ions sensor probes available), Smart Water is the first water quality-sensing platform to feature autonomous nodes that connect to the Cloud for real-time water control. Their sensors are available for both Waspmote lines: Plug & Sense! – ready to deploy in final projects, and OEM – to be embedded in a third party product line.

Plug & Sense! Smart Water

Data is sent from Open Aquarium to a laptop via an USB cable or via WiFi or GPRS to the Internet.

Smart Water One Step Solar Panel Connection

Smart Water One Step Probe Change

Open Aquarium Basic Kit

Let’s take now a closer look to the main differences between Libelium agriculture monitoring products, Smart Agriculture VS Open Garden.

Smart Agriculture platform 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. The Smart Agriculture board enables control with a finer granularity than existing precision agriculture techniques. Our solution brings extreme precision to crop growing in, for example, vineyards and greenhouses, by enabling irrigation and climate control to be matched to local conditions.

Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture

Waspmote Smart Agriculture OEM Solution

For more information about our Waspmote product lines:

• Waspmote
• Plug & Sense!