Development of Environmental Monitoring Systems based on LoRa with Cloud Integration for Rural Area
M S Hidayat, A P Nugroho , L Sutiarso a and T Okayasu
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Abstract
Increasing the quality and quantities of agricultural products can be optimized with an environmental monitoring system, to determine the plants condition and as a reference in caring for plants. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is widely used in field monitoring recently, because of its ease of use and being able to monitor in real-time. Indonesia is an agricultural country with more than 16,5 million of farming land, most of the farming land are located in the rural area. The problems that occurs when implementing IoT to environmental monitoring in rural area is the limited signal and energy. In this study, we study and research the use of LoRa as a Long Range Low Power data transmitter for environmental monitoring in agricultural systems in the rural areas. The location of this research was conducted in Bulaksumur Universitas Gadjah Mada. This research was focused on system design and performance test. There are four zones with variuous obstacles. The Zone D (LOS) is the best scenario to optimizing data transmission. This Zone can reach over 800 m distance with only 20% packet loss.
Keywords: LoRa, Environmental Monitoring System, Rural Area
Topic: Energy and agricultural machinery