IoT-based Health and Farm Monitoring System via LoRa-based Wireless Sensor Network

Development of Internet and Internet of Things (IoTs) has laid rapid advancement in the farming system and medical system. Various relevant data and signals are collected and monitored from these systems and then appropriate results are predicted that help to make agriculture more optimized and sustainable and healthcare more automated. In this paper, a low-cost, power efficient, Long-Range Wide-Area Network (LoRaWAN) based IoT platform is proposed where two LoRa end nodes are designed, one for collecting the parameters from agricultural fields and another for monitoring body temperature and pulse rate. The readings from these two nodes are then communicated to a single gateway which are then forwarded to Network Server. The collected data can be visualised on a web-based dashboard on a daily basis. The main aim of this proposed platform is to help the people living in rural and hilly areas in monitoring their farm and health on a single dashboard regularly.