Surveillance of SigFox technology integrated with environmental monitoring

Internet of Things (IoT) became an accessible solution to the users for controlling and managing different processes and systems. Those systems can include features such as easily monitoring plants growing process, a thing that is widely needed now because of the population number exponential growth, expecting to reach 9.7 billion until the year 2050. This thing is going to increase the need for food exponentially and at the same thing, it is going to reduce the area of usable soil for agriculture while the available natural resources are going to decrease. The traditional methods of environment data collecting are still in use, such as using human labor periodically to determine the different conditions such as weather, water levels, and possible pests present in the fields. In this article, we are proposing a monitoring system capable of collecting information about the environment (such as, humidity, temperature, and luminosity) that could allow the optimal growth of plants by integrating a network of sensors capable of transmitting the collected data by using the SigFox technology. This system intends to increase productivity and profits, reduce human labor, and eventually, integrate other technologies to make the agricultural process simpler and more efficient.