Remote monitoring of crop storage conditions

Purpose

1.1. Provide real-time, automated monitoring and alerting of temperature, humidity, and gas levels within crop storage facilities.
1.2. Ensure safe storage conditions to minimize spoilage, pest infestation, and post-harvest losses.
1.3. Integrate sensor data, notifications, reporting, and machinery automation for proactive response.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Incoming sensor data from IoT devices (temperature, humidity, CO₂, O₂, etc.).
2.2. Threshold breach detected (e.g., temperature > 30°C or humidity > 75%).
2.3. Scheduled reporting/intermittent data checks (e.g., every 10 minutes).
2.4. Manual override by storage manager.
2.5. System health check anomalies.

Platform variants

3.1. AWS IoT Core
• Feature: MQTT topic trigger (sensor data ingest).
• API: Publish/Subscribe MQTT; configure Device Shadows for state monitoring.

3.2. Microsoft Azure IoT Hub
• Feature: Device-to-cloud messages; Event Grid integration.
• API: REST endpoint for message ingestion and routing.

3.3. Google Cloud IoT Core
• Feature: Telemetry event ingestion; Cloud Functions trigger.
• API: deviceData/events; Cloud Pub/Sub subscription.

3.4. Losant
• Feature: Workflow engine for device thresholds.
• API: Workflows → Device State Trigger.

3.5. Ubidots
• Feature: Event trigger; SMS/email/HTTP notification.
• API: Events → Alert configuration.

3.6. ThingsBoard
• Feature: Rule Chain; alarm creation.
• API: RPC call, Telemetry Upsert.

3.7. Blynk
• Feature: Webhook for custom alerts.
• API: HTTP Webhooks.

3.8. Kaa IoT Platform
• Feature: Data collection endpoint; analytics trigger.
• API: Data Collection API/REST.

3.9. OpenRemote
• Feature: Asset attribute change trigger.
• API: REST asset update watcher.

3.10. Twilio SMS
• Feature: Outbound SMS alert on threshold breach.
• API: Programmable SMS → Send Message.

3.11. Telegram Bots
• Feature: Bot message on storage condition alert.
• API: /sendMessage with chat_id, text.

3.12. Slack
• Feature: Channel notification for real-time alerts.
• API: chat.postMessage to specified channel.

3.13. SendGrid
• Feature: Send automated email alert.
• API: mail/send endpoint.

3.14. PagerDuty
• Feature: Incident trigger for critical breaches.
• API: Events API v2.

3.15. Splunk
• Feature: Log storage data; trigger alert.
• API: HTTP Event Collector (HEC).

3.16. InfluxDB
• Feature: Time-series data store with threshold monitoring.
• API: Tasks; Alerts; HTTP API.

3.17. Grafana
• Feature: Dashboard visualization; alert rule.
• API: Alerting → Notification channel.

3.18. Home Assistant
• Feature: Automation trigger on sensor data.
• API: REST sensor.update; automation.trigger.

3.19. Zapier
• Feature: Workflow connecting sensors to messaging tools.
• API: Webhooks, multi-step workflow configuration.

3.20. MQTT Broker (Eclipse Mosquitto)
• Feature: Message relay; topic trigger.
• API: MQTT publish/subscribe.

3.21. Node-RED
• Feature: Visual flow creation, threshold node, notification.
• API: HTTP Node, MQTT Node, Function Node.

3.22. Particle Cloud
• Feature: Device event; webhook trigger.
• API: Webhooks configuration.

Benefits

4.1. Prevent spoilage and crop loss with immediate corrective actions.
4.2. Reduce manual monitoring labor and errors.
4.3. Build historical data for compliance and yield optimization.
4.4. Rapid multi-channel communication for incident escalation.
4.5. Improved traceability and reporting for audits.