Get invovled in the Farm Internet of Things (FIoT) working group!

Open Ag Technology FIoT
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What we are doing…

  1. Identifying common use cases for collecting data on farms and supporting farm operations with IoT solutions.
  2. Developing hardware/software kits using open source technology to meet these needs.
  3. Sharing our work openly.

How we are working and how to get involved…

  • This forum is our primary gathering area for sharing ideas, asking for feedback, providing progress updates, etc.
  • We plan to use Github for a code repo and project management/issue tracking tool
  • We also keep in touch in real time in the FIoT Riot room.
  • And we meet weekly on Mondays @ 1pm Eastern Time. Join the call in our Riot room!
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Long range grow site sensors
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Hi, I’m new to the forum and just wanted to introduce myself. I posted on another thread, but thought this is probably a better place.

I’m a freelance software/hardware developer in Potchefstroom, South Africa. I’ve been tinkering with some farm IoT ideas for a while and looking for like minded individuals. Happy to have found this forum!

Projects I have put together are a Raspberry Pi IoT gateway running Node-Red to connect with (potentially) various sensors on low cost hardware via MQTT on a WiFi network. So far I have used the ESP8266 running https://mongoose-os.com/. A very cool open source embedded OS.

I would like to contribute code/ideas etc and get involved in the FIoT working group!

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Hi - I just wanted to introduce myself, I’m the lead on the open-source Frugal IoT project, the goal of which is to develop and support low cost sensors suitable for use in resource constrained environments (e.g. agroecology in LMICs). There seems to be lots of overlap, but a few differences driven mostly by the cost-constraints. Frugal-IoT currently includes a bunch of sensors (and its easy to add new ones); works on every ESP32 or ESP8266 board we’ve tried, and on Sonoff’s for control apps (e.g. turning on fans & pumps). There’s an open-source platform and client as well. Love to have more people using it, or contributing to it.