DESIGN OF CONNECTED FARMS
The connected farm is a new type of automated farming
system developed using IoT infrastructure. As shown in Figure
1, the connected farm system has three main components,
i.e., connected IoT devices including monitoring sensors and
controllers, IoT gateway (called &Cube), and IoT service platform
(called Mobius). In connected farms, there are physical
sensors (e.g., temperature, humidity, CO2, illumination) and
controllers (e.g., sprinkler, LED lights, air conditioner, heater)
for monitoring and controlling the environmental conditions of
the farm. All the sensors and controllers are connected with the
IoT gateways in turn connected with the IoT service platform.
End users (i.e., farmers) can interact with the connected farm
for monitoring its environmental conditions or triggering some
farming utilities.