Deqing Smart Agriculture Weather Monitoring System Project
Project Background
With the development of smart agriculture and precision farming, the customer needed more accurate environmental data to support daily crop management. The existing management approach relied heavily on field experience, making it difficult to monitor changes in weather, soil moisture, greenhouse conditions, and air quality continuously. This created challenges for irrigation scheduling, greenhouse climate control, and timely identification of conditions associated with crop disease.
To address these requirements, the customer deployed Yantai automatic agricultural weather stations, greenhouse weather stations, and integrated agricultural air-quality monitoring stations across open fields, greenhouses, and orchards. The system monitors key parameters including air temperature and humidity, rainfall, wind speed and direction, solar radiation, soil moisture, PM2.5/PM10, and greenhouse CO₂ concentration.
The monitoring stations automatically collect and transmit field data through wireless communication to a cloud-based platform. Operators can view real-time conditions, review historical records, and receive threshold alarms through computers or mobile devices. This provides practical environmental data for irrigation, ventilation, shading, temperature control, crop protection, and agricultural research.
- Equipment: Agricultural Weather Monitoring System
- Application Area: Smart Agriculture
- Date: Implemented in 2025
- Project Location: Deqing, Zhejiang, China
On-site Installation Process & Equipment Configuration
Before installation, the project team conducted an on-site survey of the open fields, multi-span greenhouses, and orchard areas to determine suitable monitoring points according to the local layout and monitoring requirements. The outdoor stations were positioned away from major obstructions, standing-water areas, and other factors that could affect measurements. Concrete foundations were prepared for the monitoring poles, followed by installation of the weather sensors, wind speed and direction sensor, rain gauge, solar radiation sensor, PM2.5/PM10 sensors, and soil temperature and moisture sensors.
After the sensors were installed, the team completed the assembly of the IP65 data acquisition enclosure, solar power supply, and wireless communication modules, with outdoor wiring properly protected against moisture and weather exposure. The 4G/LoRa/Wi-Fi communication system was then configured and connected to the cloud monitoring platform. Final commissioning included sensor calibration, communication testing, data verification, trial operation, and on-site operator training before system acceptance and handover.
Equipment Configuration:
- Automatic Agricultural Weather Station: Measures air temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind speed, wind direction, rainfall, and solar radiation for open-field environmental monitoring.
- Greenhouse Weather Station: Monitors temperature, humidity, light intensity, CO₂ concentration, soil temperature, and soil moisture to support greenhouse climate and irrigation management.
- Integrated Agricultural Air-Quality Monitoring Station: Monitors PM2.5, PM10, and other atmospheric environmental conditions in agricultural production areas.
- Soil Temperature & Moisture Sensors: Provide localized soil-condition data for irrigation and crop-growth management.
- Data Acquisition Unit: Collects, processes, and stores data from multiple environmental sensors.
- Wireless Communication Module: Supports 4G, LoRa, or Wi-Fi data transmission according to the site conditions.
- Solar Power System: Provides independent power for outdoor monitoring stations where grid power is unavailable or inconvenient.
- Outdoor LED Display: Displays selected environmental monitoring data directly at the project site.
- Cloud Monitoring Platform: Provides real-time data access, historical records, data export, and threshold alarm functions.
Project Operation Performance
Since the system was put into operation, the monitoring stations have provided continuous environmental data across the open fields, greenhouses, and orchards. The system integrates weather, soil, greenhouse microclimate, and air-quality monitoring, allowing operators to track temperature, humidity, rainfall, solar radiation, soil moisture, CO₂, PM2.5/PM10, and other parameters in real time. The data provides a practical basis for irrigation, ventilation, shading, temperature control, and crop management, reducing reliance on manual observation and experience-based decisions.
The solar-powered, low-power monitoring stations support long-term unattended operation in outdoor agricultural environments, while wireless communication and the cloud platform enable remote data access, historical record review, data export, and threshold alarms. By combining continuous environmental monitoring with digital data management, the project has improved the efficiency of daily agricultural operations and strengthened the farm’s ability to identify changing environmental conditions and respond to potential crop and weather risks in a timely manner.
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Customer Feedback
“After the system was put into operation, the biggest difference for us was that we could see the actual environmental conditions in different production areas without sending staff to collect data manually. The weather station data has been particularly useful for checking rainfall, temperature, humidity, and soil moisture before irrigation. The greenhouse monitoring also gives us a clearer view of CO₂ and temperature changes, which makes daily adjustments easier.”
“The installation and commissioning process was straightforward, and the communication and power systems have been running steadily in the field. We also found the remote monitoring function convenient for checking data and historical records from the office. For our daily management, having continuous records instead of relying only on field experience has made environmental monitoring much more practical. We plan to keep the system in regular use as the agricultural base develops.”
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