1. Student: Taariq Ghansar Supervisor: Prof. Antoine Bagula
Smart Agriculture
Internet of Things in Motion
Term 3: Implementation
Student: Taariq Ghansar
Supervisor: Prof. Antoine Bagula

2. Presentation Outline Problem Revisit High Level Design
Data Transfer Layout
Implementation Demo
Questions & Answers

3. Problem Revisit Deploying IoT in Agriculture.
Monitor soil and environmental characteristics through IoT sensors:
Soil Moisture
Humidity
Temperature
Monitoring several points across a field connected through a LR-WPAN (Low Rate Wireless Personal Area Network).
There is a large consumption of water. Water allocation for agriculture in South Africa is 60 percent according to the department of water affairs.

4. High Level Design

5. Data Transfer Layout REST API or Telnet protocol Console or
Python telnetlib library & MySQL
Sensor Node 1 (Uno)
Gateway (Yun)
Sensor Node 2 (Uno)
There is a large consumption of water. Water allocation for agriculture in South Africa is 60 percent according to the department of water affairs.

6. Gateway Architecture Split Architecture Environments: XBee module:
Arduino
Linux Open-Wrt OS
XBee module:
Communicates through Digital pin 8 & 9
Bridge:
Communicates between Digital pin 0 & 1
Wi-Fi: Telnet console, REST API and more capabilities

7. 802.15.4 LR-WPAN Networking Protocol Stack: Communication
Medium Access Control
Physical Layer
XBee Modes:
API: Fully Structured Frames
AT: Bytes
Communication
Gateway -> Sensor Node (Broadcast)
Sensor Nodes: -> Gateway (Unicast)

8. Implementation Demo
TCP – Transport Layer
IP – Network Layer

9. Questions and Answers
TCP – Transport Layer
IP – Network Layer

10. References [1] http://www.ieee802.org/15/pub/TG4.html
[2]
TCP – Transport Layer
IP – Network Layer