Farm Internet of Things Suite (RaspberryPi Based)

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A suite of Farm Internet of things sensors organized around common farm use cases including but not limited to monitoring and management of Soil and Crop health, root cellar, greenhouse, walk-in cooler, compost pile, germination chamber, livestock fence and water, irrigation, bird control. This Suite of hardware fits within the FarmOS Farm Observatory system to manage parameters and alerts through a visual programming interface based on Scratch/Blockly.
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Project Pages and Conversations 

Farm Hack tool http://farmhack.org/tools/colecting-sensor-data-farmos-using-grovepi-and-node-red
Github page here  https://github.com/fiot-dev/grovePi_scratch

Another github for Node Red FIOT - https://gist.github.com/Dornawcox/662eaabc188cd7d8ef0a4ebeac02ad7a
Discourse (GOAT) forum here  http://forum.goatech.org/t/get-invovled-in-the-farm-internet-of-things-fiot-working-group/84

Concept Illustration: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1dyOMU9cMuK4fsgSnklfIXaAFYMdU3K7wOw2kWJYDvpQ/edit?usp=sharing

 

Basic Universal Bill of Materials 

RaspberryPi 3/zero
Lora nodes
Arduino and GrovePi Shields
Temp humidity board sensor
Onewire temp sensor 
Soil Moisture
Digital camera(s)(Timelapes)
Microphones
Voltage Divider (battery monitor)
Fence Voltage tester
Sonic Range Finder (Water level)
rhizotron time lapse camera
Load cells 
Relays for automation (high and low amp)

Additional sensors 
CO2
O2
CH4
pH

Enclosures:
PVC round with fittings
Polycarbonate cases
Telestrut posts & fittings with driven galvanized T posts 
Connectors, junctions, wire & fittings?  Grove+ others 
Epoxy, mineral oil, buytl rubber, heat shrink and hotglue

Power & Connectivity 
12V Lead acid battery, charge controller/power supply and 20-60W solar panel
Ubiquity node
GSM backup alerts & non-image data streaming
 

Automation
Gearmotors with limit switches (roll-up doors, greenhouse automation)
Linear Actuators
Solenoid valves 

 

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