A new system for agrometereological data collection in areas lacking communication networks

This paper presents a family of agro-sensors aimed to collect and store, for long periods, agrometeorological data in remote areas hard to reach and not served by telecommunication networks. The sensor exhibits long battery life (in the order of 10 years) thanks to low consumption technologies and to hardware sleep/wake up approach. It can be remotely placed on preselected sites through a drone customized to do it. The same drone, equipped with a dedicated payload, can then return on the sites where sensors have been placed, and, while hovering, wakes up the single devices and uploads their collected data through local wireless network.