World Electric Intelligent Smart Agriculture IoT Solution

I. Development Background of Smart Agriculture

With the continuous development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, an increasing number of technologies are being applied to agricultural production. Currently, technologies such as remote monitoring systems and wireless sensor monitoring are maturing and gradually being implemented in the construction of smart agriculture. These applications primarily include environmental and plant/animal information detection, information monitoring in greenhouse agriculture, standardized production monitoring, and water-saving irrigation in precision agriculture. This has enhanced the management efficiency of agricultural production, increased the added value of agricultural products, and accelerated the pace of smart agriculture development.

II. Current Status and Pain Points in Agricultural Management

During agricultural production, crop growth is closely related to various natural factors, including air temperature, air humidity, soil temperature and humidity, light intensity, carbon dioxide concentration, water, and other nutrients. In traditional agricultural practices, managing these parameters that influence crop growth relies heavily on human perception, leading to significant inaccuracies. Consequently, agricultural production often becomes a form of extensive management, failing to meet the requirements of precision management.

The comprehensive environmental monitoring and control system, which combines sensors with wireless communication networks, has gained significant popularity in facility agriculture and is rapidly being adopted. In response to the current status and needs of agricultural management, West Intelligence proposes a smart agriculture solution.

III. Overview of the Smart Agriculture IoT Solution

The West Smart Agriculture Solution is based on wireless communication technologies such as Zigbee/NB-IoT/LoRa. Utilizing West Intelligence's smart gateways and wireless connectivity devices equipped with corresponding sensors (e.g., air temperature and humidity sensors, CO2 concentration sensors), it collects environmental parameters in real-time, including air temperature and humidity, soil temperature and humidity, CO2 concentration, light intensity, and PH value. The system can automatically activate, deactivate, or remotely control designated equipment. It can be processed as needed by users, providing a scientific basis for the automatic monitoring of comprehensive ecological information in facility agriculture, as well as for environmental automatic control and intelligent management.

Furthermore, by connecting different sensors to the West Intelligence hardware platform according to varying customer application scenarios, the solution can be adapted for diverse applications, including agricultural greenhouses, forestry, and aquaculture.

IV. West Smart Agriculture IoT Hardware Solution

Based on the data transmission structure of the entire system, the architecture can be divided into four parts: Perception Layer, Transmission Layer, Application Layer, and User Terminal:

1. Perception Layer: Primarily consists of environmental information collection devices and automatic control equipment, including air temperature and humidity monitoring, soil information monitoring, meteorological information monitoring, and video information collection.
2. Transmission Layer: Mainly comprises the data transmission network, including smart gateways and wireless connectivity devices independently developed by West.
3. Application Layer: Primarily includes scenario applications such as agricultural greenhouses, forestry, and aquaculture.
4. User Terminal: Mainly involves information release and intelligent data processing, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, PCs, etc.

V. Example: Agricultural Greenhouse IoT Solution

The Smart Agricultural Greenhouse System consists of Shunzhou's self-developed smart gateways based on Zigbee/NB-IoT/LoRa, wireless transmission devices, wireless data acquisition devices, and matched sensors (air temperature/humidity, soil temperature/humidity, soil PH, light intensity, CO2), cameras, as well as heating, irrigation, ventilation, curtain rolling equipment along with their supporting PLCs and other device servers.

VI. Functions of the Smart Agriculture Control System

1. Real-time Data Monitoring

Devices such as air temperature/humidity sensors, soil temperature/humidity sensors, soil PH sensors, photosynthetically active radiation sensors, and CO2 sensors installed at designated monitoring points collect real-time data on air temperature/humidity, CO2 concentration, soil temperature/humidity, PH value, etc.

2. Real-time Data Transmission

Shunzhou wireless data transmission devices send the collected data to the monitoring center in real-time via smart gateways through the wireless network, ensuring data timeliness and accuracy.

3. Intelligent Linkage Control

The linkage control system consists of heating, irrigation, ventilation, curtain rolling equipment, along with their supporting PLCs and Wifi device servers. When environmental data collected by sensors exceeds the critical range compared to standard values, the controller automatically activates relevant hardware devices to heat, water, ventilate, or adjust light radiation via curtains, achieving precise control over the crop growth environment.

4. Visualization of the Growing Environment

The smart agriculture information display screen, composed of spliced LCD panels, is used to present environmental data collected by various sensors within the agricultural greenhouse and live scene footage.

5. Platform Software Remote Control

All system data is stored on the cloud platform. The platform can perform intelligent processing on the collected data by establishing analytical models to optimize crop cultivation.

VII. About Hainan West Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.

Hainan West Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. envisions "making standardized industrial IoT simpler." Focusing on the IoT industry chain, the company continuously conducts R&D in areas related to indoor positioning, sensing control, and data transmission products. It adopts a "Lego-like" production approach to precisely meet the characteristic needs of industrial IoT products—small volume but high variety—providing solutions for complex environments and personalized customer requirements, thereby realizing a new supply-demand relationship with low inventory and high satisfaction.

The company has R&D centers in Shanghai, Suzhou, Chengdu, and Taipei. Upholding the group's nearly 40 years of strong commercial resources and reputation, it firmly believes in the business philosophy of "being an expert in the industry." It excels in channels, is sensitive to the market, focuses on products, ensures reliability in "R&D," stability in "production," and quality in "sales," always dedicated to the ultimate satisfaction of personalized scenario needs for industrial IoT customers.

Regarding products, we have Zigbee positioning products developed by our in-house team over more than a decade, as well as UWB positioning products developed by teams in Shanghai and Taipei, meeting different customer requirements for positioning accuracy. Simultaneously, the company introduces Bluetooth positioning products to complement its self-developed solutions, aiming to fully satisfy the needs of various customers.

In terms of software support, we integrate overall solutions across industries, actively open interfaces and source code for system integrators to join, and facilitate related software companies in showcasing cases based on our products, thereby broadening the application of IoT indoor positioning.