Agribusiness Monitoring
Innovate in Agribusiness Monitoring with IoT solutions: control, efficiency, and productivity for agricultural machinery, equipment, and operations.
Challenge
Overcoming the constant power outages and monitoring various operations such as silos, hopper openings, truck entry and exit sensors, and grain elevator actuators.
Solution
It has its own batteries, making it immune to precarious power supply situations and able to operate with autonomy for up to 72 hours, even using 3G/4G cellular communication.
Faced with the need to monitor multiple digital signals in remote locations, our client sought a solution that could unify the data while accommodating the diverse network topologies of their operation. Above-Net solved the problem using the AND-AM142 Modbus RTU converter connected to a gateway specific to each of the client's network scenarios.
With this, the data is sent to Bridgemeter, our industrial IoT solution, where the user can access their personalized monitoring dashboard, with analog and digital displays of the information, as well as history, graphs, and predictive analysis.
Monitoring is done through the cloud platform, generating real-time alerts about changes in the operating conditions of machines or equipment.
Several prerequisites were essential for the solution to function, including:
- Silo Monitoring
- Opening of Granaries
- Truck entry and exit sensors
- Grain elevator actuators.
- Independent battery
The products and systems involved in the solution are industrial-grade and designed for critical operations and high-volume connections
- Robustel R3000-L3P – Dual-SIM cellular router with 1 serial port and 1 Ethernet port.
- AND-142M – converter module with 24 digital inputs and Modbus RTU communication.
- ANH-I140 – Analog/digital module with 4 analog current inputs (0/4 to 20mA)
With extensive experience in developing mobility solutions and integrating complex systems, Above-Net is able to overcome challenges in project integration and implementation.