A Scalable Hybrid Network for Agriculture Environment Monitoring

Nowadays, agricultural production needs to improve the quality and yield of crops by monitoring their growth environment. The monitoring locations have the characteristics of wide distribution, high density, and large quantity. Thus, a networking method suitable for agricultural environmental monitoring is required. LoRa wireless communication technology has the advantages of long range and strong diffraction ability, while its date rate is low. NRF24L01P is a single-chip wireless transceiver working in the 2.4 to 2.5 GHz ISM band. It has the advantages of high data rate, low energy consumption and cost effectiveness, but the communication range is short. By the combination of the two technologies, this article proposes a scalable hybrid networking method based on the needs of agricultural environment monitoring. This method takes the advantage of LoRa and NRF24L01P networking and is suitable for agricultural environmental data collection. The collected data is finally uploaded to the cloud via WiFi so that end users can remotely access the agricultural data. The experimental results show that the proposed hybrid network can improve the data collection efficiency and data transmission distance.