RIKA SENSOR's Smart Agriculture Environment Monitoring Solution

The Problems in Traditional Agriculture

Traditional agriculture globally has been grappling with several challenges. It heavily relies on manual labor, leading to high labor intensity, low efficiency, and potential labor shortages. For example, during peak farming seasons, finding sufficient workers can be a struggle, and the cost of labor has been on the rise. 

Weather and climate are major disruptors. Uncontrollable factors like droughts, floods, and extreme temperatures cause significant yield fluctuations. In some regions, a sudden cold snap can destroy an entire crop, leaving farmers with unstable incomes. Moreover, traditional methods lack sustainability in terms of soil fertility and ecological balance. Overuse of fertilizers and pesticides degrades the soil, leading to long - term environmental damage. Also, without leveraging modern tech, agricultural management and production processes are inefficient, hampering the improvement of product quality and yield.

Smart Agriculture Environment Monitoring Solution

RIKA SENSOR's smart agricultural solution is a comprehensive and integrated agricultural science and technology service system. It breaks the boundaries of traditional agricultural production, organically integrates the scattered agricultural production links, and realizes intelligent management of farmland production throughout the process.

This solution is centered on data monitoring and technology. It collects various types of data in the agricultural production process through intelligent perception equipment, uses the data analysis platform to conduct in - depth mining and analysis, and then converts the analysis results into specific decision-making instructions to drive the intelligent control equipment to perform precise operations.

Whether it is a large-scale modern farm or a small family farm, we can use this solution to scientifically reduce production costs, enhance market competitiveness, and achieve the transformation and upgrading of agricultural production.

Components of the Smart Agriculture Environment Monitoring System

Sensor Nodes

• Weather Sensors: These include temperature, humidity, solar radiation, wind speed, and precipitation sensors. For instance, the RK330 - 01 atmospheric temperature, humidity & pressure sensor can accurately measure air temperature, relative humidity, and barometric pressure. It is built - in a waterproof and anti - UV shelter, suitable for harsh agricultural environments.
• Soil Sensors: Measure soil moisture, temperature, pH, salinity, and nutrient levels. They help farmers understand the soil condition better, allowing for precise irrigation and fertilization.
• Crop - related Sensors: Such as leaf wetness sensors and pest - detection sensors. These can detect early signs of diseases and pest infestations, enabling timely intervention.

 Data Acquisition and Transmission Devices

• Data loggers and wireless transmitters collect data from sensor nodes and send it to the cloud platform. They use communication protocols like GPRS, Wi - Fi, or LoRa to ensure seamless data transfer, even in remote agricultural areas.

Cloud Platform

• The cloud platform serves as the central hub for data storage, analysis, and management. It processes the vast amount of data received from sensors, presenting it in an easily understandable format to farmers and agricultural managers.

System Features and Advantages

- High-precision sensor technology

• The solution is equipped with accurate and reliable sensors, which work 24 hours a day and transmit the collected data to the data analysis platform in real time, providing a rich and accurate data foundation for subsequent accurate decisions.

- Internet of Things and Data Transmission Technology

• Using IoT technology can realize real-time data transmission. Through the wireless sensor network, monitoring data can be uploaded to the data center in real time to ensure the timeliness and accuracy of the data.

- Flexible monitoring station design

• The monitoring station adopts a flexible design method and can be customized according to different application scenarios and needs. The monitoring station can be equipped with a variety of sensors to achieve simultaneous monitoring of a variety of agricultural meteorological parameters.

- Intelligent control device linkage

• According to the instructions of the data analysis platform, agricultural production operations such as irrigation, fertilization, ventilation, and sunshade are automatically completed.

RIKA Smart Cloud Platform

RIKA SENSOR offers a free smart cloud platform. The cloud platform is based on advanced information technologies such as information collection systems, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, and the Internet. Users at all levels can access platform data through various channels such as PC WEB and APP clients to realize remote system management functions.

The system has achieved seamless connection with mobile phones, tablets, and PCs. It facilitates management personnel to view system information anytime, anywhere through mobile terminal devices such as mobile phones and remotely operate related equipment. Through the monitoring system, we can remotely supervise and control the destination park, and manage the work of equipment remotely.

Platform specific functions

- Dashboard Management

• The system dashboard can statistically analyze and visually display information such as device status, type distribution, usage, energy consumption distribution, and alarm messages. This facilitates rapid management, viewing, and location - finding.

- Precise management

• The precise management model not only improves the yield and quality of crops, but also reduces environmental pollution.

- Data Analysis

• The data is summarized and classified, and corresponding data analysis charts are drawn according to different application scenarios of the data, including pie charts, line charts, bar charts, etc., and data query, export and other operations can be carried out.

- Early warning management

• The monitoring equipment can set an early warning threshold, and an early warning will be triggered when the value exceeds the threshold. According to the early warning threshold, multiple warnings can be conducted, including SMS, email and other warning forms.