Development of a Field Environmental Monitoring Node with Over the Air Update Function

• Nugroho Andri Prima

  Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Universitas Gadjah Mada

• Okayasu Takashi

  Department of Agro-environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University

• Horimoto Masafumi

  Holly & Co. Ltd.

• Arita Daisaku

  Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies

• Hoshi Takehiko

  Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kinki University

• Kurosaki Hidehito

  NARO Western Region Agricultural Research Center

• Yasuba Ken-ichiro

  Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University

• Inoue Eiji

  Department of Agro-environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University

• Hirai Yasumaru

  Department of Agro-environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University

• Mitsuoka Muneshi

  Department of Agro-environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University

• Sutiarso Lilik

  Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Universitas Gadjah Mada

抄録

The monitoring node is one of the most important system components in the remote and automatic measurement of environmental information. Simplicity, flexibility, and affordability are critical in agricultural applications. The objective of this study was to design and develop a low-cost and robust remote environmental monitoring node based on a microcontroller board with a wireless communication module and an over-the-air (OTA) update function for flexible node management. The monitoring system consists of a cloud-based global management subsystem and a local management subsystem for each monitoring node. The node was developed using the Particle Core, reprogrammable Wi-Fi development kit, which fulfills the requirements for monitoring node mentioned above. The performance evaluation of the stability and the OTA update function were conducted under two network conditions: (1) high-speed network and (2) regular mobile 3G-network as actual application setup. The stability and availability test observed over 95% of the “timely measurements”, a completed measurement within the specified time interval, 99.86% for the condition 1 under high-quality network, and 95.02% for the condition 2. The OTA firmware update process was completed in approximately 60 s. We concluded that the developed environmental monitoring node based on a low-cost microcontroller having internal Wi-Fi module and OTA update function has the potential to increase the simplicity, flexibility, and affordability of remote environmental monitoring node in agricultural applications.

収録刊行物

• 農業情報研究

  農業情報研究 25 (3), 86-95, 2016

  農業情報学会

キーワード

• environmental monitoring
• wireless programming
• microcontroller
• over the air programming
• embedded system

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001204462861184
• NII論文ID: 130005265265
• DOI: 10.3173/air.25.86
• ISSN: 18815219
• ISSN: 09169482
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/air/25/3/25_86/_pdf
• 本文言語コード: en
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