Consortium: Verification laboratory Verlab Ltd. (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) / University of Montenegro Faculty of Electrical Engineering (Podgorica, Montenegro)
Funded by: Knowledge Transfer Experiments, Round 1
Medical devices have a fundamental role in saving lives by providing innovative healthcare solutions for the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, prediction, prognosis, treatment or alleviation of disease.
In the previous solution there was a Wireless Sensor System (WSN) based on tree topology, that consists of sensor units and a base station acting as a gateway to a web platform. Wireless Sensor Units (WSUs) were used to get environmental data such as temperature, humidity, soil humidity, etc., which are sent to a base station named Wireless Information Unit (WIU) through a Zigbee.
The medical devices sector is essential to the provision of healthcare to citizens and is an important player in both the European and global economy.
One of the proposed improvements was the replacement of WSUs existing microcontroller with such consuming ultra low power.
Another improvement was to update the communication technology used in the WIU, such as Nb-IoT, in order to improve bandwidth, reduce communication cost and increase the battery duration.
The main goal of Agricloud is to improve the existing Wireless Sensor System (WSN) agriculture platform using advanced technologies in order to:
The shift in consumer preferences for higher standards of food safety and quality together with the unavailability of laborers, are some of the driving factors for proposing a system for smart farming that supports both demand driven and automated irrigation, sensor networks.
Agricloud aspires to improve the already existing WSN that acts as a gateway to a web platform using Wireless Sensor Units (WSUs) to get environmental data which are sent to a base station named Wireless Information Unit (WIU), by proposing:
Through the optimization of the product and the improvement of the idea both in terms of hardware and software the proposed system for smart farming: