KR100835987B1 - Integrated sensor server system for agriculture - Google Patents

Abstract

An integrated sensor server system for agriculture is provided to enable a farmer to check various kinds of information of farmland easily by obtaining soil, environment, video, and location information of the farmland, and enabling the farmer to monitor the information. A sensor unit(110) obtains soil and environment information of farmland by using a soil sensor(112) and an environment sensor(111). A camera(120) obtains video information of the farmland. A GPS(Global Positioning System) unit(130) obtains current location information of a system. A data logger(140) converts the information received from the sensor unit, the camera, and the GPS unit into a digital signal, and collects and records the digital signals. A storing part(150) stores the information collected from the data logger. A communicator(160) connects the system to the wired/wireless network. A web server(170) provides a monitoring service for the information stored in the storing part to a farmer through the Internet connected through the communicator. A solar(180) generator generates and stores electric power and a speaker outputs an alarm.

Description

Integrated Sensor Server System for Agriculture

1 is a configuration diagram of an integrated sensor server system for agriculture according to the present invention,

2 is a flow chart of a method for providing integrated agricultural information monitoring according to the present invention,

3 is a block diagram of an integrated agricultural network using an integrated agricultural sensor server system according to the present invention.

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110: sensor unit 120: camera unit

130: GPS unit 140: data logger

150: storage unit 160: communication unit

170: web server unit 180: solar power generation unit

The present invention relates to an integrated sensor server system for farming, and more specifically, by acquiring soil, environment, image information, and location information of a plantation site and providing a monitoring service to a user through the Internet, it is possible to easily grasp various types of plantation information. The present invention relates to an integrated sensor server system for farming, which can facilitate crop management of farmland.

In modern society, there are rapid changes in the environment such as warming and El Niño, where the emissions of pollutants such as carbon dioxide are increased due to industrialization and industrialization, and the forests are destroyed, resulting in heavy snow, heavy rain or wildfire. Extreme weather events such as these are occurring frequently, and predictions are becoming more difficult.

In industrial fields such as agriculture and livestock industry, the growth rate, yield, and taste of crops and livestock are affected by changes in the environment such as temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, solar radiation, water supply, carbon dioxide, etc. Acquiring and predicting information and responding to it quickly is very important.

Therefore, in order to cope with changes in the crop cultivation environment, existing producers working in agriculture must acquire weather information from the Meteorological Administration or ask the government offices such as the Agricultural and Forest Technology Center. Not only does it take into account environmental differences, but it also takes a long time to get results.

Accordingly, the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art, by acquiring the soil, environment, image information and system location information of the plantation and providing a monitoring service to the user through the Internet, it is possible to easily grasp the various information of the plantation The purpose is to make it work.

In addition, the present invention has another object to facilitate the crop management of the plantation.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is a system for acquiring and providing information of agricultural plantation to a user, comprising: a sensor unit for acquiring soil and environmental information of the plantation; A camera unit for obtaining image information of the plantation; A GPS unit for acquiring current location information of the system; A data logger for converting the information obtained from the sensor unit, the camera unit, and the GPS unit into a digital signal to collect and record the digital signal; A storage unit for storing the information collected by the data logger; A communication unit for connecting the system to a wired or wireless network; And a web server unit for providing a monitoring of information stored in the storage unit to a user through the Internet connected using the communication unit.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for acquiring and providing information on agricultural plantation to a user, comprising: a first step of acquiring soil and environmental information of the plantation using a sensor; A second step of acquiring image information of the plantation area using a camera; A third step of obtaining current location information using GPS; A fourth step of converting the information obtained from the sensor, the camera and the GPS into a digital signal using a data logger to collect and record the information in a storage unit; And a fifth step of providing the user with the information stored in the storage unit as a monitoring service using the Internet through a wired or wireless network.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the specification and claims should not be construed as having a conventional or dictionary meaning, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention.

Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

1 is a block diagram of an integrated agricultural sensor server system according to the present invention.

Agricultural integrated sensor server system according to the present invention, the sensor unit 110 for obtaining soil and environmental information, the camera unit 120 for obtaining image information, the GPS unit 130 for obtaining the position information of the system A data logger 140 for collecting and recording the acquired information, a storage unit 150 for storing the obtained information, a communication unit 160 for connecting to wired and wireless networks, and an internet connected through the network. It comprises a web server unit 170 for providing a monitoring of the information stored to the user by using and a solar power generation unit 180 for generating electricity using solar power.

The sensor unit 110 is an environmental sensor 111 for measuring any one or more of environmental information such as temperature, illuminance, humidity, carbon dioxide, wind speed, wind volume, raindrops, rainfall and snowfall of the plantation, and the temperature, moisture, A soil sensor 112 for measuring any one or more of the soil information, such as EC (Electronic Conductivity, electrical conductivity) and pH (acidity). The soil sensor 112 measures the soil information by inserting the sensor probe 113 into the soil, each sensor measures the corresponding information at a predetermined time interval.

Camera unit 120 is preferably a CCTV (Closed Circuit System) having an infrared function as a device for obtaining image information of the plantation. The camera unit 120 of the present invention obtains the image information of the plantation and provides the user with an image monitoring of the plantation, and having an infrared function, it is easy to acquire an image at night as well as at night, and has a motion detection function. The moving object around the plantation in which the system of the invention is installed can be detected. Accordingly, the camera unit 120 may have a function as described above to enable rapid response according to a situation such as theft or damage of a crop or a system. In addition, the camera unit 120 converts the analog image obtained by including a digital video recorder (DVR) into a digital image, so that when the user uses a method for providing integrated agricultural information monitoring according to the present invention via the Internet, streaming of the image information Can provide services.

The GPS unit 130 receives a GPS (Global Positioning System) signal from a satellite and is used to determine the position of the system of the present invention, and is used for network configuration management using the system of the present invention. It also enables tracking of the theft of the system of the present invention.

The data logger unit 140 collects and stores the soil and environmental information obtained by the sensor unit 110, the image information obtained by the camera unit 120, and the location information obtained by the GPS unit 130. It is a means for recording in the unit 150.

Storage unit 150 is a means for storing the information collected by the data logger 140 stores the soil information, environmental information, image information and location information in each table. Information stored in the storage unit 150 can be monitored by the user to grasp the environmental change of the plantation for a certain period of time.

The communication unit 160 is a means for connecting the system of the present invention to a wired and wireless network, a local area network (LAN) module for connecting to the Internet using a wired network, and a connection to the Internet using a wireless network. Wireless LAN module, a CDMA module for connecting with a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) communication network, and a Zigbee module for connecting with another system of the present invention. In addition, the CDMA module may be connected to the Internet through a CDMA communication network.

Agricultural integrated sensor server system of the present invention by using a Zigbee module wirelessly connected between two or more systems to form an Ad-hoc (ad-hoc) network, integrated management and monitoring of a large area of cultivation map that cannot be covered by one system Can be. Ad-hoc networked systems can communicate with each other using Zigbee module and overcome the limitations of ZigBee module's communication distance by Multihop Routing function. It can also work with the network. Therefore, when the Ad-hoc network is configured as described above, the connected Internet can be accessed from another system using a wired or wireless network in one system.

In addition, the agricultural integrated sensor server system of the present invention, when the snow or rain falls through the environmental sensor 111 of the sensor unit 110 and the SMS (SMS) to the user using the Internet or CDMA communication network connected through the communication unit 160 By sending a Short Message Service, you can warn of weather disasters.

The web server unit 170 is a means for providing a method for providing integrated information monitoring for agriculture according to the present invention to the user through the Internet, the user web server unit 170 via the Internet using a terminal regardless of time and place It is possible to monitor the soil, environment, image and location information stored in the integrated sensor server system for agriculture of the present invention by accessing.

The integrated sensor server system for farming of the present invention generates electricity by using the solar panel included in the solar generator 180 even in a place where power is not supplied from the outside, and stores the electricity in the storage battery included in the solar generator 180. do. Therefore, it can operate with electricity stored in the battery even at night when the solar panel is not available. Also, in areas where external power supply is possible, power may be supplied from the outside.

The integrated sensor server system for agriculture according to the present invention further includes a speaker, and when an external invasion is detected using the motion detection function of the camera unit 120, an alarm may be generated to prevent an accident.

Therefore, the integrated sensor server system configured as described above collects and stores the soil, environment, image and location information of the plantation as a monitoring service through the Internet so that the user can monitor the plantation information through the Internet anytime and anywhere. Appropriate planting measures can be taken to meet the environmental conditions of the

2 is a flow chart of a method for providing integrated agricultural information monitoring according to the present invention.

Environment information such as temperature, illuminance, humidity, carbon dioxide, wind speed, wind volume, raindrops, rainfall and snowfall, and soil temperature, moisture, Obtain soil information such as EC and pH (S210).

In addition, by using the camera included in the integrated sensor server system for farming, image information around the plantation in which the system is located is acquired (S220). The camera may easily acquire an image at night including an infrared function, and may detect a moving object including a motion detection function.

In addition, location information corresponding to the current location is obtained using the GPS included in the system (S230).

The soil, environment, image, and location information obtained in the above steps are collected by the data logger, converted into digital values, and stored in the storage unit (S240).

The stored information is connected to the Internet using a wired or wireless network to provide to the user as a monitoring service (S250).

The present invention enables the user to easily grasp various types of information on the cultivated land by performing the method of providing integrated agricultural information monitoring as described above and to take proper and rapid cultivation measures according to the environmental conditions of the cultivated land to facilitate crop management of the cultivated land. Make it work.

3 is a block diagram of an integrated agricultural network using an integrated agricultural sensor server system according to the present invention.

According to FIG. 3, the integrated sensor server system 310 for agriculture uses a built-in Zigbee wireless communication module to configure the integrated agricultural network 320, which is wirelessly connected and is an Ad-hoc network.

The agricultural integrated network 320 configured as described above may be connected to the Internet to provide a monitoring service of the plantation, and the user using the monitoring service may be provided with a personal computer (PC), a notebook computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a mobile phone, or the like. The monitoring service of the plantation can be used by using an internet-enabled terminal.

Therefore, by configuring an integrated agricultural network using the integrated agricultural sensor server system according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a monitoring service regardless of the area of cultivation, and to connect the Internet connected from one agricultural integrated sensor server system to another agricultural integrated network. It can also be used with the system.

Although the present invention has been shown and described with reference to the preferred embodiments as described above, it is not limited to the above embodiments and those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention. Various changes and modifications will be possible.

Therefore, the integrated sensor server system of the present invention obtains soil, environment, image information, and system location information of the plantation and provides a monitoring service to the user through the Internet, so that the user can easily grasp various kinds of information of the plantation. do.

In addition, the present invention has a remarkable and advantageous effect of allowing the user to easily perform crop management of the plantation by taking appropriate and rapid planting measures according to the environmental conditions of the plantation.

In addition, the present invention includes the solar cell has the effect that can be operated autonomously without the supply of external power.

In addition, the present invention has the effect of preventing accidents by detecting the invasion of the plantation of unauthorized moving objects to obtain an image and warn in advance.

Claims (12)

In the system for acquiring and providing information of agricultural plantation, Sensor unit for obtaining the soil and environmental information of the plantation; A camera unit for obtaining image information of the plantation; A GPS unit for acquiring current location information of the system; A data logger for converting the information obtained from the sensor unit, the camera unit, and the GPS unit into a digital signal to collect and record the digital signal; A storage unit for storing the information collected by the data logger; A communication unit for connecting the system to a wired or wireless network; A web server unit for providing a monitoring of information stored in the storage unit to a user through the Internet connected using the communication unit; And Solar power generation unit for generating and storing electricity Agricultural integrated sensor server system comprising a. delete The method of claim 1, Agricultural sensor system further comprises a speaker for outputting a warning sound. The method of claim 1, The sensor unit, Soil sensor for measuring any one or more of the temperature, water, EC and pH of the cultivated soil; And Environmental sensor for measuring any one or more of the temperature, illuminance, humidity, carbon dioxide, wind speed, wind volume, raindrops, rainfall and snowfall of the plantation Agricultural integrated sensor server system comprising a. The method of claim 4, wherein The camera unit, the integrated sensor server system for agriculture to perform the operation of the motion detection mode for acquiring the image by detecting the infrared motion and the surrounding motion for acquiring the image at night. The method of claim 5, wherein The communication unit, A LAN module for connecting the Internet to a wired network; A wireless LAN module for connecting the Internet to a wireless network; A CDMA module for connecting with a CDMA communication network; And Zigbee module for wirelessly connecting to one or more other integrated sensor server systems for agriculture Integrated sensor server system for agriculture comprising a. The method of claim 6, When the environment sensor detects rain or snow falling, integrated sensor server system for agriculture to send a warning SMS to the user using the Internet or CDMA communication network connected through the communication unit. An agricultural integrated network comprising at least two agricultural integrated sensor server systems of claim 1 and configured as an ad-hoc by wirelessly connecting. A method of acquiring and providing information of agricultural plantation site to a user using the integrated agricultural sensor server system of claim 1, A first step of acquiring soil and environmental information of the plantation using a sensor; A second step of acquiring image information of the plantation area using a camera; A third step of obtaining current location information using GPS; A fourth step of converting the information obtained from the sensor, the camera and the GPS into a digital signal using a data logger to collect and record the information in a storage unit; And A fifth step of providing the user with the information stored in the storage unit as a monitoring service using the Internet through a wired or wireless network; Agricultural integrated information monitoring method comprising a. The method of claim 9, wherein the first step, Agricultural integration using soil sensor and environmental sensor to acquire soil information of any one or more of temperature, moisture, EC and pH and environmental information of any one of temperature, roughness, humidity, carbon dioxide, wind speed, wind volume, rain, rainfall and snowfall How to Provide Information Monitoring. The method of claim 10, wherein the second step, The method of providing integrated information monitoring for farming, which acquires an image using an infrared mode of the camera at night, and acquires an image using a motion detection mode when a surrounding movement is detected. The method of claim 11, wherein in the fifth step, Connecting the Internet through the wired or wireless network, using a LAN or a wireless LAN module method for providing integrated agricultural information monitoring.

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