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Autonomous Solar-Powered Smart Sensing Node: Integrating TinyML and Hybrid LoRaWAN/Wi-Fi Connectivity for Sustainable Precision Agriculture

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Elizabeth Ospina-Rojas *
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Juan Botero-Valencia
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Juan‐Guillermo Muñoz
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Juan Carlos Morales-Guerra
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Ruber Hernández-García
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J. F. Vargas‐Bonilla
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Carolina Del-Valle-Soto
DOI:10.3390/asi9080163delete
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Precision agriculture and sustainable farming practices require autonomous environmental monitoring systems capable of operating in remote areas with limited energy and connectivity. However, the high cost of existing professional technology remains a significant barrier to widespread adoption. This study presents the development of a solar-powered smart sensing node designed for autonomous operation that integrates TinyML and dual-mode wireless connectivity via LoRaWAN and Wi-Fi for intelligent monitoring. The system features a custom-designed cup anemometer and multispectral sensing capabilities integrated into a compact single-tower architecture. All structural components, including radiation shields and a modular PVC frame, were designed for low-cost manufacturing and mass production. A single hermetic housing protects the core control electronics and is designed to improve durability in harsh outdoor environments. A Multi-Layer Perceptron model was implemented on the edge to enable intelligent data fusion and compensation, while a dynamic sampling strategy optimized power consumption. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed architecture through adaptive spectral acquisition over a daily illumination cycle, embedded MLP-based sensor fusion, and telemetry-oriented data compression that substantially reduces the number of transmitted samples. The main contribution of this work is a system-level architecture that integrates sensing, embedded intelligence, solar-energy harvesting, hybrid wireless communication, and telemetry optimization into a compact, low-cost, and field-deployable prototype IoT platform for sustainable precision agriculture.
Keywords:
TinyML
LoRaWAN
precision agriculture
solar-powered
IoT
environmental monitoring
Wi-Fi

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Applied System Innovation cover
Applied System Innovation
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3.7
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