AKX00034

Arduino Edge Control Genel Bakış

It can be positioned anywhere and is suitable for precision farming, smart agriculture, and other applications requiring intelligent control in remote locations. Power can be either supplied via solar panel or DC input. Remotely control your application through the Arduino Cloud (or third-party services) using a choice of connectivity options suitable to the location. The Arduino Edge Control features built-in Bluetooth® and its connectivity can be expanded with 2G/3G/CatM1/NB-IoT modems, LoRa®, Sigfox, and WiFi by adding anyone of the MKR boards. The Arduino Edge Control is capable of connecting sensors and drive actuators like latching valves (common in agriculture). Moreover, it has the capability to provide real-time monitoring over the entire process, thereby reducing production-related risks. Particularly suited to smart agriculture, the sensors can collect real-time data such as weather conditions, soil quality, crop growth, amongst others. Once sent to the Arduino Cloud, the data value chain becomes valuable analytics that supports business processes at various levels (e.g. crop yield, equipment efficiency, staff performance, etc.). The Arduino Edge Control has the capability to improve crop quality and reduce human effort/error by automating processes like irrigation, fertilization, or pest control.

Arduino Edge Control Uygulama Örnekleri

Automated Greenhouses

Automatically manage the humidity and temperature to ensure the best environment for crop growth, minimising carbon emissions and increasing economic yield. The inclusion of an Arduino MKR GPS Shield allows for optimum crop rotation planning and acquisition of geospatial data.

Hydroponics/Aquaponics

Since hydroponics involves the growth of plants without soil, delicate care must be taken to maintain the conditions required for optimum growth. The Arduino Edge Control can be set-up to control these conditions with minimal manual labour. The Arduino Edge Control can help match the even higher requirements of Aquaponics, by providing automated control over the internal process and reducing production risks.

Mushroom Cultivation

Mushrooms are notorious for requiring the perfect temperature and humidity conditions to sustain spore growth, while also preventing competing fungi from growing. Thanks to the numerous watermark sensors, output ports and connectivity options available on the Arduino Edge Control, this precision farming can be achieved on an unprecedented level.

Microcontroller: nRF52840 (64 MHz Arm® Cortex-M4F)
Digital Input: 6x edge sensitive wake up pins
Digital Output: 8x latching relay command outputs with drivers
8x latching relay command outputs without drivers
Relays: 4x 60V/2.5A galvanically isolated solid state relays
Analog Input: 4x 4-20mA inputs
8x 0-5V analog inputs
16x hydrostatic watermark sensor input
Terminal Block Connectors: 6x 18 pin plug in terminal block connectors
Power Supply: 12 V Acid/lead SLA Battery Supply
(Recharged via solar panels)
Power Consumption: Low power (up to 34 months on a 12V/5Ah battery)
200uA Sleep current
Memory: 1 MB onboard Flash memory
2 MB onboard QSPI Flash memory
SD Card: Interface for SD Card connector (through expansion port only)
Connectivity
Bluetooth
Wifi*
3G*NB-IoT*
LoRaWAN®*
* Requires Arduino MKR board
Peripherals: Full-speed 12 Mbps USB
Arm CryptoCell CC310 security subsystem
QSPI/SPI/TWI/I²S/PDM/QDEC
High speed 32 MHz SPI
Quad SPI interface 32 MHz
12-bit 200 ksps ADC
128 bit AES/ECB/CCM/AAR co-processor
Operational Temperature: -40° C to +85° C (-40° F to 185°F)
Length: 104 mm
Width: 86 mm