Hardware and Software Complex for Monitoring Soil and Climatic Parameters

The article discusses agriculture digitalization problem in Russia. Agribusiness development dynamics in Russia and Western Europe countries, USA and Canada are compared. Russian regions positive experience in digitalization tools implementation is presented. The article proposes one of the possible tools for agriculture digitalization in Russia - hardware and software complex for monitoring soil and climatic parameters. Such system expediency, its benefits for science and agriculture are given. Main principles, technologies and algorithms used in system development are described, as well as main development problems and ways to solve them. The article describes in detail hardware and software complex structure and its elements - probe, base station and web interface. The system, each element structure, its composition and purpose, block diagram and operation algorithms description are also described in detail. The article also presents and describes software and hardware complex elements constituent part - sensors, transmitters, a microcontroller, etc. A separate block in article is software and hardware complex testing stage. This block describes testing methodology and its implementation main stages. A temperature sensors comparison inside device was carried out and climatic parameters comparison obtained by software and hardware complex and using RP5 weather forecast service.