Automatic Farmland Weather Station: Integrating Microclimate Monitoring into Precision Agro-Management

Weather and climatic conditions directly affect the growth, development, and final yield and quality of crops. Traditional agriculture relies on experience and broad weather forecasts, often struggling to effectively respond to complex and changeable local climates. Nowadays, the Automatic Farmland Weather Station has been put into use as a field monitoring device, providing data sources for scientific farming.

The Automatic Farmland Weather Station is used to monitor the local climatic environment of farmland. Equipped with multiple high-precision sensors, it can real-time and accurately collect key agricultural environment parameters such as temperature, humidity, light intensity, wind speed and direction, and rainfall. After being integrated and processed by the collector, the data is transmitted to the cloud platform via 4G or wireless networks. On the cloud platform, complex meteorological data is transformed into intuitive charts and reports, allowing farmers to view the real-time weather conditions of farmland at any time through devices such as computers and mobile phones.

The Automatic Farmland Weather Station boasts rich and practical functions. The real-time monitoring function enables farmers to promptly grasp the climate changes in the fields. When the temperature is too high and humidity is low in summer, farmers can irrigate and shade crops in a timely manner based on the monitoring data to prevent crops from being damaged by high temperatures and drought. The weather station can also store and analyze historical data. Through long-term accumulated data, technicians can summarize the changing laws of the local farmland microclimate to better plan planting varieties and arrange agricultural activities. For example, referring to past years' light and temperature data, they can select crop varieties more suitable for the local climate, enhancing crop adaptability and yield.

In the field of facility agriculture, greenhouse growers leverage the weather station data to precisely regulate environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, and light inside the greenhouses. When the temperature inside the greenhouse is too high, ventilation equipment and sunshade nets automatically turn on; when humidity is insufficient, the spray device automatically humidifies, creating a suitable growth environment for crops and improving agricultural product yield and quality. The occurrence of many plant diseases and insect pests is related to climatic conditions. The weather station real-time monitors data such as temperature, humidity, and light, and combined with the occurrence model of diseases and insect pests, can predict the occurrence trend of diseases and insect pests in advance. Farmers can accordingly carry out timely prevention and control, which not only reduces the harm of diseases and insect pests to crops but also reduces pesticide usage, achieving green agricultural production.

The Automatic Farmland Weather Station has changed the traditional agricultural model of "relying on the weather," helping farmers achieve scientific farming.