Vertical: Smart Agriculture
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.
Sensors Mag “Smart Viticulture Project in Spain Uses Sensor Devices to Harvest Healthier, More Abundant Grapes for Coveted Albariño Wines”
Smart applications are becoming more prevalent in big cities and urban environments and in the countryside as well. Smart agriculture brings state-of-the-art technology to an industry where the plow and sickle have ruled for thousands of years.
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>