We set up a GoFundMe https://www.gofundme.com/smartagsyria but would also be most grateful for guidance and feedback.
Thank you! Flavius
Bluetooth works for short range. We will use that to connect it with farmers' equipment, while a GSM network allows us to keep all the greenhouses data being sent and received to the server. It also helps us to remotely access the processor for update.
We also want the long-range and scalability of GSM. People are spread out and this project will have several parts in different places, like servo in water pumping station and temp+other sensors in the greenhouse. It's also easier to train people to use GSM since we can get it going with any regular smartphone in a way that they understand better than setting up bluetooth, according to our experience. We already have other GSM devices, but want to acquire this one, here in the US, so that we can download all the packages we need and get it running here. That's hard to do there, where there is barely internet.
What do you mean by smart agriculture?
The ability to grow your needs of food with minimal human interaction, because of the shortage of skilled workforce.
Smart agriculture, in this case is providing any individual with the ability to control their greenhouse, even if they don’t have the experience.
What do you think?
Thank you so much again!
PS: Because of the mention of S, the gofundme is currently under review and not accessible.
Also, what does "smart agriculture" mean to you?