DESENVOLVIMENTO DE UM SISTEMA AUTOMATIZADO PARA COLETA DE DADOS DE TENSIOMETRIA UTILIZANDO IOT

This work presents the partial results obtained on the development of applied research. Nowadays, in the agricultural process there is a growing need on automating the productive process with technological support. One of the jobs is the data collection about the soil’s hydric condition that is done manually and, on large properties, may become tricky and longstanding. Once dealing with a manual conference, it may generate mistakes on reading. With these problems in mind, the authors look for creating automated systems for irrigation using Agriculture 4.0 (Agro 4.0) concepts. This part of the manuscript presents the materials and methods applied to the building of a prototype made to digitalize, send and store data about the soil’s hydric tension in a single cloud database. Furthermore, there are shown details of the interface created to view the data from the internet. Such features line up the presented system with the Internet of Things (IoT) and provide evidence that it may be used as a tool for monitoring useful sensorial information on the automated irrigation process.