Development of an IoT-Based (LoRaWAN) Tractor Tracking System
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2022
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Ankara Üniversitesi
Abstract
The use of new technologies and precision agriculture (PA) in farms has
become more important due to the need for enough agricultural
production for increasing world population opposed to decreasing farm
areas. PA covers wide range of technologies like sensors,
microcontroller-based devices, machine to machine communication
technologies, global positioning systems but, the investment costs of
these devices are literally expensive which become a constraint for
farmers especially in developing countries. Internet of things (IoT)
technology is a new era that agricultural production will be the one area
mostly affected by. LoRaWAN is one of the new communication
technologies for IoT which enables almost everything on the planet to be
connected to internet and deliver high amount of data with no expense. In
this research by using the advantages of LoRaWAN, a new IoT-based
tractor tracking system including a LoRaWAN module and a web-based
software was developed, and the test results were evaluated. As a result,
it was found that the developed system was capable of measuring and
sending tractor sensor data along with geospatial position of the tractor
and serving the data on the web-based user interface.
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Tractor tracking, Asset tracking, Precision farming