Automated Monitoring & Data CollectionPurpose
1.2. Provide real-time alerts to mitigate stock loss, equipment failure, or water quality decline.
1.3. Enable proactive intervention for maintaining healthy conditions and compliance with regulations.
1.4. Support escalations, logging, and workflow automation for incident management.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Sensor error or data transmission failure for a defined interval.
2.3. Device calibration overdue or maintenance cycle alert.
2.4. Multiple parameters abnormal in defined sequence or correlation.
2.5. Manual override or operator flag for urgent broadcast.
Platform variants
3.1. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Programmable SMS API—set to send message on trigger:
• Sample: Configure webhook to POST recipient number, event, and details to /Messages endpoint.
3.2. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Send Email API—automate parameter alert emails.
• Sample: Use /mail/send endpoint with recipient, subject (“Abnormal Water Parameter Detected”), and message body.
3.3. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks—channel alert notification.
• Sample: Setup webhook URL, POST JSON with parameter type, site, and time to alert channel.
3.4. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Webhook Connector—format adaptive card with alert details.
• Sample: POST to channel webhook with JSON card payload.
3.5. Discord
• Feature/Setting: Webhook—send real-time alert to channel.
• Sample: POST parameter breach message to server webhook.
3.6. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Events API v2—Incident trigger.
• Sample: POST alert JSON with dedup_key for sensor to /v2/enqueue.
3.7. OpsGenie
• Feature/Setting: Alert API—create alert on parameter exception.
• Sample: POST /v2/alerts with alias, message, and description fields.
3.8. WhatsApp (using Twilio)
• Feature/Setting: Programmable Messaging API—WhatsApp alert on sensor breach.
• Sample: Setup /Messages endpoint with templated notification.
3.9. Telegram
• Feature/Setting: Bot API—send alert message to group/channel.
• Sample: Use sendMessage with chat_id and custom text for alert.
3.10. Pushover
• Feature/Setting: Messages API—push priority alerts to mobile.
• Sample: POST to /1/messages.json with parameters and priority flag.
3.11. AWS SNS
• Feature/Setting: Publish API—distribute SMS/email notifications via topic.
• Sample: Publish message to topic subscribed by farm staff.
3.12. Azure Notification Hubs
• Feature/Setting: Send API—broadcast push alert to registered mobile devices.
• Sample: Send notification with parameter info to device tags.
3.13. Google Chat
• Feature/Setting: Webhook—broadcast parameter alert to room.
• Sample: POST JSON-formatted incident message.
3.14. Gmail
• Feature/Setting: Gmail API—auto-send email to distribution list.
• Sample: Use /users/messages/send with preformatted alert content.
3.15. Freshdesk
• Feature/Setting: Ticket Creation API—log event as urgent ticket.
• Sample: POST alert to /api/v2/tickets with custom fields for sensor data.
3.16. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: Table API—create incident record on threshold breach.
• Sample: POST to /api/now/table/incident with water parameter summary.
3.17. Jira
• Feature/Setting: REST API Issue Create—auto-create issue for incident tracking.
• Sample: POST JSON with summary, description, and labels for site and parameter.
3.18. IFTTT
• Feature/Setting: Webhooks Service—chain alert to any linked channel.
• Sample: Use event trigger with JSON body to kick-off cross-platform notifications.
3.19. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Zap Trigger and Action—link alert to any supported app.
• Sample: Configure webhook to start Zap and deliver alert according to workflow.
3.20. Webex
• Feature/Setting: Messages API—send real-time alert into dedicated space.
• Sample: POST to /v1/messages with roomId and alert content.
3.21. LINE Messaging
• Feature/Setting: Messaging API—alert sent to LINE group.
• Sample: Use push API with abnormal parameter info to group userId.
3.22. Mattermost
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhook—push message to operations channel.
• Sample: POST alert JSON to webhook URL associated with project.
3.23. Apple Push Notification Service (APNS)
• Feature/Setting: Push API—send abnormality alert to iOS devices.
• Sample: Craft notification payload, POST via HTTP/2 interface to APNS endpoint.
Benefits
4.2. Supports distributed notification: reach teams on multiple devices/channels.
4.3. Customizable escalation and repeat alerting for critical incidents.
4.4. Audit log and integration-ready for compliance and reporting.
4.5. Lowers manual monitoring workload, enabling staff focus on high-value tasks.