Projets-2016-2017-Serres connectées
Project presentation
The project subject : Serres connectées.
The project consist of upgrading a classic greenhouse to retrieve live information about its climate. The farm exploitation is located in Saint-Cassien (38500), in the French Alps.
Data to retrieve :
- Air temperature
- Air moisture
- Soil moisture
Control of these parameters are essentials to avoid disease, enhance the growth of the plantations and limit water consumption.
Two main constrains :
- No power in the zone
- Sensors needs to be moveable to let vehicles move along the greenhouse
Team
- Supervisor: Nicolas Palix and Vincent Hibon
- Members: Antoine Boisadam, Oriane Dalle
- Department: RICM 4, Polytech Grenoble
Documents
Calendar
The project started on January 9th, 2017.
Week 1 (January 9th - January 12th)
- Project selection (List of all subjects)
Week 2 (January 13th - January 19th)
- Introduction to LoRa by Didier Donsez.
- Discovery of the project
- Setup of our computers to be able to program our Adafruit Feather.
- First Hello world with the hardware (Discussion between two Adafruit Feather 32u4 in LoRa)
- Call with one of the managers of the farm, Vincent, the feeling is good with him, we spoke during one hour :
- He spoke about him and his wife farm exploitation
- He detailed the farm layout
- We asked him some precise questions about the project (Types and numbers of sensors wanted, data wanted, ...)
- We agree on a meeting for the next Wednesday (25/01/2017)
Week 3 (January 20th - January 26th)
- Define the use case diagram
- Taking charge of the Adafruit Feather card and the PyCom one.
- We wrote a little program that is able to send and receive data. At the moment these data are fake temperature until we embedded real sensors
- We determinate the length maximum of data that we can sent to be able to record data each 30 minutes and respect the duty cycle (1% of the time)
- The meeting was canceled by the managers of the farm and reported to the 8th of February
Week 4 (January 27th - February 5th)
- No official time slot for the projec this week (Postpouned)
- Call with Vincent Hibon on the 1st of Feb. We spoke about the advancement of the project.
Week 5 (February 6th - February 12th)
- We got some new hardware : Mbed SX1272 with a ST Nucleo board, therefore we have to re-setup our computers to makes these cards working. Adafruit cards will be given to the project n°2.
- On wednesday afternoon, first meeting at the farm with Vincent. We also meet Isabelle, Vincent's wife, the manager of the farm. Here is a report of this afternoon (in French).
- There are some pictures picked today (yes, the forecast wasn't very good...) :
Week 6 (February 13th - February 20th)
- We are very disheartened with these new STM32 cards. Three other hours lost in making research about how it works.