Precision in Every Leaf: Farmland Weather Station's Impact on Tea Cultivation

With the accelerated transformation from traditional agriculture to smart agriculture, Farmland Weather Station has become an indispensable intelligent device in the tea planting sector. Its emergence has broken the limitations of farmers relying on experience, introducing tea planting into an era of scientific and data-driven precision management.

Farmland Weather Station is essentially a highly integrated intelligent data acquisition system that monitors meteorological changes through high-precision sensors. It features two core functional modules—meteorological element monitoring and live video surveillance—jointly constructing a comprehensive data monitoring network for tea garden management.

1. Meteorological Element Monitoring: A "Mini Weather Station" for Holistic Data Capture

Operating at minute-level frequency, it continuously collects atmospheric environment data such as air temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and rainfall. It also monitors subsurface indicators like soil temperature and moisture, and even measures the temperature of tea canopies—a critical metric reflecting the physiological state of tea trees and essential for judging growth progress.

Data collection is not isolated; instead, it is transmitted in real time to control terminals via IoT technology and simultaneously displayed on outdoor electronic screens. These screens serve as the "smart windows" of the tea garden. When farmers enter the garden, they can intuitively access environmental data at a glance. For example:

If the screen shows soil moisture below the critical threshold at dawn, an irrigation system can be activated promptly.

If continuous high temperatures and abnormal canopy temperature increases are detected, sunshade nets can be set up immediately to prevent tea leaves from scorching due to heat stress.

Such real-time data-driven decisions artificially reduce the threats of meteorological disasters to tea planting.

2. Live Video Surveillance: Empowering "Televisual" Monitoring with Intelligent Insights

Equipped with high-definition cameras and intelligent image recognition algorithms, this function acts as a "thousand-mile eye." It not only records growth stages such as tea bud germination, leaf expansion, and blooming in real time, but also predicts the trend of plant diseases and insect pests by analyzing details like leaf color and morphological changes. When the system identifies lesions on leaves, it issues immediate warnings. Farmers can then formulate precise prevention plans by integrating meteorological data (e.g., sudden humidity surges often trigger fungal diseases), avoiding blind pesticide spraying. This reduces production costs and minimizes environmental pollution.

3. Data Visualization and Dynamic Strategy Optimization

By generating visual charts from long-term monitoring data, Farmland Weather Station helps farmers summarize environmental change patterns in tea gardens. Through analyzing the correlation between meteorological data and tea yield/quality across different years and seasons, farmers can optimize planting strategies:

Improve soil water retention in advance during low-rainfall years.

Plan windbreaks rationally based on wind direction patterns, forming a dynamically adjustable scientific planting system.

From simple data collection to intelligent decision support, Farmland Weather Station is reshaping tea planting models. It not only provides farmers with "visible" environmental data but also deeply integrates meteorological science, plant physiology, and agricultural practices through data—safeguarding stable tea yields, increasing income, and driving the high-quality development of the tea industry.