I-Greenhouse progress

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Schedule of the project

March-November 2016

• 1st HW/SW software and hardware design of the LoRa endpoint for temperature, humidity, rain and wind (Figure 2)
• 1st HW/SW software and hardware design of the Sigfox endpoint for temperature and humidity (Figure 3)
• 1st HW/SW design of the LoRa pico-gateway based on ESP8266 + RN2483 (Figure 4)
• 1st mockup of the backend based on MQTT, Node-RED and InfluxDB Link (Figure 5)
• 1st mockup of the data-visualization application based on Grafana Link (Figure 5)

December 2016

• Order of Adafruit Feather 32u4 RFM95 LoRa Radio on Adafruit with the USD 150 gift.

January 2017 (start of the student project)

• Ordering of the 14 square meters greenhouse and associated material
• Installation of the greenhouse in Polytech Grenoble backyard
• Sigfox endpoints (with first set of sensors)

February 2017

• Lora backend and LoRa endpoints (with first set of sensors)
• Lora pico-gateway hardware
• Grafana dashboard

March 2017

• March 9-10: Participation to the Eclipse IoT Days 2017 Grenoble (lik)
• Lora pico-gateway software
• LoRa endpoints (with second set of sensors)
• Sigfox endpoints (with second set of sensors)
• Alarming backend (Email, Free SMS, Android push).

April 2017

• Cordova mobile application
• Integration in OpenHAB/Eclipse SmartHome
• User documentation
• Student defense

Progress

December 2016

Ordering of components on Adafruit with the USD 150 gift.

• 3 Adafruit Feather 32u4 RFM95 LoRa Radio
• Soil Temperature/Moisture
• DS18B20 - Temperature sensor
• BMP183 SPI barometric pressure sensor
• I2C barometric pressure and temperature sensor

January 2017

• Reception of the components
• Soldering of the 868MHz antenna and the pins on the Adafruit Feather

• Follow the Hello World example at https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-feather-32u4-radio-with-lora-radio-module/using-the-rfm-9x-radio

• The TX device is connected to a solar panel with a battery pack (3x 1.2V)
• Use the 868Mhz frequency to match the antenna capability (Available ISM in France).

#define RF95_FREQ 868.0

• Add the blinking LED on pin 13 on the TX device

digitalWrite(LED,packetnum%2);

Febuary 2017

• Mock-up of a greenhouse
• Repository