Analysis of low power wide area network wireless technologies in smart agriculture for large-scale farm monitoring and tractor communications

In this paper, the assessment of multiple scenario cases for large-scale farm monitoring using Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) based near-ground sensor nodes with interaction both tractors and farmers are presented. The proposed under analysis considers communication links, namely to infrastructure, tractor, farmer, tractor infrastructure farmer communications. Moreover, these scenarios agricultural equipment performance improvement tracking, as well resources management within field. Different link type configurations tested in order consider impact ground, spatial distribution elements. results show that LPWAN-based WSNs can provide better terms coverage radio quality than ZigBee a non-flat field fixed moving farmer. systems validated by cloud-based platforms LoRaWAN, Sigfox NB-IoT communications, providing flexible scalable solutions enable interactive farming applications.