Development of a Low-Cost, Power-Efficient Smart Farming Framework using LoRa and IoT

Industrial agriculture is embracing the idea of "smart farming" in response to the rising demands for food throughout the world and the difficulties inherent in traditional agricultural practices. The agri-food supply chain can benefit substantially from smart farming systems' increased efficiency, safety, and productivity because to their high degree of automation and real-time control. This study introduces a tailored smart farming system that utilizes a LoRa and Internet of Things (IoT) based wide-area wireless sensor network that is inexpensive, power-efficient, and has a long range. Existing Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) often used in industry and agriculture are connected with LoRa connection in this system. Through Simatic IOT2040, PLCs regulate, control the processes and devices. Agricultural machinery and environmental data can be tracked and managed remotely using this web-based solution. The conversations were automated with users of this messaging service by using the bundled Telegram bot. We have tested the suggested network structure and evaluated the route loss in the wireless LoRa.