ag-node

Automatic multi-weigh-station for measuring the live-weight of sheep in remote locations.

https://github.com/dpiclimate/ag-node

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agriculture iot kicad lorawan sheep weigh-station weight

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Automatic multi-weigh-station for measuring the live-weight of sheep in remote locations.

Basic Info

Host: GitHub
Owner: DPIclimate
License: mit
Language: C++
Default Branch: master
Homepage: https://dpiclimate.github.io/ag-node/
Size: 30.9 MB

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Watchers: 4
Forks: 0
Open Issues: 1
Releases: 0

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agriculture iot kicad lorawan sheep weigh-station weight

Created almost 5 years ago · Last pushed about 2 years ago

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Agriculture Node

About • Schematic • Protocol • Docs • License

About

The agriculture node (ag-node) is an automatic multi-weigh-station for measuring the live-weight of sheep in remote locations. The station can be situated against a trough for which sheep weights will be recorded as they access feed or water. An in-built LoRaWAN radio sends data (containing live-weight information) back to a local gateway and onto the end user. Additional interfaces are provided, including; SDI-12, I₂C and OneWire to allow for various sensors to be connected to the device (such as trough level sensors, temperature monitors etc.).

Schematic

The devices schematic can be found at: schematic.pdf

Basic components are summarised in the below image. Where A is the analog-to-digital converter, B is the LoRaWAN communication infrastructure and C is the peripheral sensor connectors (I₂C, OneWire and SDI-12).

Protocol / Algorithm

As the device operates autonomously (sheep are weighed in an unsupervised manner) an algorithm to capture the maximum stable weight (and an error representation) is provided.

The protocol is explained below and a visual representation is provided.

A weight is captured (triggered by a sheep stepping on a scale) consisting of a time-series of weights while the sheep is on the platform
This time-series data is sliced into groups of 5 values
The slope between the first and last value is calculated (where values < 0.1) are discarded as they represent unstable weights
The Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of the fitted line is calculated
The average of the 5 points are taken
An evaluation of the new weight is made against previous slices (see figure below under the Method Evaluate for an equation that represents this)

Firmware Docs

Firmware documentation can be found here

An illustration of the devices operations can be found below:

License

Ag-node is MIT licensed, as found in the LICENSE file.

Owner

Name: DPIclimate
Login: DPIclimate
Kind: organization

Repositories: 5
Profile: https://github.com/DPIclimate

Citation (CITATION.cff)

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message: "Please cite this work as below."
authors:
- family-names: "Bates"
  given-names: "Harvey"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9619-6356"
- family-names: "Taylor"
  given-names: "David"
title: "Ag-node"
version: 0.5.1
date-released: 2022-04-12
url: "https://github.com/DPIclimate/ag-node"

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