Experiences Deploying an Always-on Farm Network
Experiences Deploying an Always-on Farm Network
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部署永远在线的农场网络的经验
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2017
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Mark Kimball
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Zerina Kapetanovic;Deepak Vasisht;Jongho Won;Ranveer Chandra;Mark Kimball
数据驱动的农业技术可以帮助农民减少浪费，增加农业产量，并确保环境的可持续性。这些技术的关键推动因素是始终在线连接的物联网系统，该系统可以感知农场的不同特征，并为农民提供短期和长期可行的见解。然而，由于稀疏的互联网连接和缺乏可靠的电源，建立这样一个系统非常具有挑战性。天气变化性在许多方面给系统带来压力，进一步加剧了这一点。我们将讨论如何构建和部署Farmbeats[6]以应对这些挑战。我们希望我们的经验将帮助那些开始探索在农业或其他弱连接、电力匮乏场景中进行部署的研究人员，如建筑、油田、采矿和其他领域。
Data-driven techniques for agriculture can help farmers reduce waste, increase farm output and ensure sustainability for the environment. The key enabler for such techniques is an always-on connected IoT system that can sense the different characteristics of the farm and generate short-term and long-term actionable insights for the farmer. Yet building such a system is very challenging due to sparse Internet connectivity and lack of reliable power sources. This is further exacerbated by weather variability that stresses the system in numerous ways. We discuss how we built and deployed Farmbeats [6] in the face of these challenges. We hope our experiences will aid researchers who are beginning to explore deployments in farming or other weakly connected, power-starved scenarios, such as construction, oil fields, mining, and others.