Acquisition and Mining of Agricultural Data Using Ubiquitous Sensors with Internet of Things

In this paper, a modular architecture for Internet of Things (IoT) based on an agricultural setting for data acquisition and mining is proposed, developed, and implemented for validation. This work is an attempt to modularize the general IoT architecture and separate functional layers to make them independent of each other. The purpose of the presented solution is to make development and deployment of IoT systems, easy and cost-effective in agriculture to accelerate the adoption of precision agriculture. The architecture involves four functional layers: things layer (sensors, controllers, and actuators), edge computing layer (microcomputer), gateway layer (Wi-Fi Modem/Broadband), and cloud layer (Database, web application). The local machine-to-machine communication between things layer and the edge computing layer uses a high-level implementation of the message queue transport telemetry protocol.