Use cases Agriculture & Field Sensing
Agriculture & Field Sensing use case
Soil moisture, weather, LoRaWAN uplinks, and pump control — edge automation where connectivity is patchy.
This page is an industry overview (templates + protocols). For step-by-step configuration, use the blog/wiki links below — those URLs are the primary how-to pages.
The problem
Fields and greenhouses need local decisions, not only cloud dashboards. Nodlyn agents run next to gateways and pumps.
Who it’s for: Growers and integrators using MQTT sensors, LoRaWAN, Modbus soil probes, or weather APIs.
How Nodlyn approaches Agriculture & Field Sensing
Agriculture pages often get faked with keyword spam. Ours is honest: there is no separate agri SKU pack — you compose soil/weather/LoRaWAN/MQTT/Modbus patterns the same way industrial IoT does, on an edge agent near the pump or gateway.
Example workflows (moisture → irrigate → log → summary) are the same class as Sensor Threshold and MQTT→Influx templates, called out so searchers know what to open first.
Example workflows
- Soil moisture below limit → start irrigation pump → log water use → daily summary
- LoRaWAN uplink → threshold → SMS/Slack
- Weather forecast → skip irrigation schedule
Quick start
- Ingest sensors via MQTT, LoRaWAN (TTN/ChirpStack), Modbus, or HTTP weather.
- Reuse Sensor Threshold and MQTT logging templates; add Command/GPIO where hardware allows.
- Keep the runtime agent on-site; monitor heartbeats in Cloud when backhaul is up.
- There is no separate “agriculture SKU pack” — you compose from IoT + industrial connectors.
Starter templates in Studio
Open Templates in desktop Studio and search these names — they are real built-in graphs, not placeholder titles.
- Sensor Threshold Alert
- MQTT Sensor → InfluxDB Logger
- Modbus Threshold → Slack Alert
Related protocols
Guides (blog & wiki)
- Building IoT Workflows with MQTT in Nodlyn Blog
- Weather API Automation: Fetch Real-Time Conditions for Your Workflows Blog
- Raspberry Pi GPIO Triggers: Rising, Falling, and Edge Events Blog
- Industrial Protocols in Nodlyn: From Modbus to OPC UA — A Connector Hub Blog
- Build Sensor Threshold Alert Workflow Wiki
- Build MQTT Sensor InfluxDB Logger Workflow Wiki
Is there an agriculture product SKU?
No separate agri pack — soil/weather/LoRaWAN/MQTT/Modbus patterns compose from IoT and industrial connectors on an edge agent. This page is honest about that.
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