Design and application of cloud platform based soil moisture monitoring system at the farm level

Abstract

The cloud platform based soil moisture monitoring system at the farm level is mainly used for remote monitoring, storage and analysis of agricultural ecological factors and their videos in real time. The system is composed of solar powered soil moisture collector, video collector, self-made farm-level map, GPS location, cloud data service center, web-based client and mobile-based client. These servers and devices have realized several functions such as intelligent multi-block data acquisition, solar power supply, unattended operation all year round, and satellite upload in image/data format. Also, data is independently managed and checked in the cloud data service center and the clients, respectively. We conducted an in-situ test on the performance of the system inQingfeng Farm,HeilongjiangProvince. The test result shows that the system can be installed regardless of locations and surrounding environments, and can acquire dynamic and real-time information of soil moisture and crop growing conditions, thus providing scientific basis for improving soil water utilization rate.