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Camnexus-IoT and Cambridge University bring LoRaWAN network to Brazil.
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Brazil, July 2019. Camnexus-IoT together with its partners at the University of Cambridge led the installation of its first Camnexus-IoT LoRa Network in Brazil. The installation is part of the BRIDGE–TESC project, a pilot project aiming to improve the agricultural productivity of Santa Catarina using enabling technologies. Taking advantage of a solar hydroponic greenhouse developed under the BRIDGE project of Cambridge University Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG), the new pilot will develop and install an adapted version of the solar greenhouse in a scholar community of Santa Catarina. BRIDGE-TESC is an international collaboration project for sustainable development involving the University of Cambridge in the UK, University of the South of Santa Catarina (UNISUL) and Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil; and Camnexus in the UK.
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The installation was done during June 2019 in Santa Catarina, Brazil. A team of Camnexus went to Brazil to perform the installation, setup and training of the network to the new users.
Two Camnexus-IoT gateways were installed, one in the UFSC, Florianopolis, and the second in the UNISUL, Tubarao. Currently the hydroponic farm greenhouse at Tubarao is being monitored remotely, using a two-sensors node network. During the five weeks of operation, the pilot in Tubarao is providing real-time data of the greenhouse's internal climate, in-feed water quality and nutrients, and irrigation water level. Data processing and alerts have helped improvement of practices in the daily operation with impact in savings and productivity of the hydroponic farm. |
BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN BRAZIL
A total of four workshops and training were delivered by Camnexus and University of Cambridge team in Brazil, where more than 70 people attended.
INSTALLATION TRAINING AT HYDROPONIC GREENHOUSE, UNISUL. TUBARAO, JUNE 2019.
At 200 km from the capital of Santa Catarina, Camnexus delivered its first training and meeting session in the city of Tubarao, home to UNISUL, university. There, Camnexus trained the team in charge of the solar hydroponic greenhouse, who are the key users of the first Camnexus-IoT network (10th June 2019). The participants included Prof Celso Albuquerque, responsible for the hydroponic greenhouse, Prof Juliano Cesconeto, and the students Rafael Durante (electrical engineering) and Romulo Moya (student of agronomy).
At 200 km from the capital of Santa Catarina, Camnexus delivered its first training and meeting session in the city of Tubarao, home to UNISUL, university. There, Camnexus trained the team in charge of the solar hydroponic greenhouse, who are the key users of the first Camnexus-IoT network (10th June 2019). The participants included Prof Celso Albuquerque, responsible for the hydroponic greenhouse, Prof Juliano Cesconeto, and the students Rafael Durante (electrical engineering) and Romulo Moya (student of agronomy).
BRIDGE-TESC WORKSHOP TO PRINT PROJECT COORDINATORS, UFSC. FLORIANOPOLIS JUNE 2019. A second workshop was held at UFSC, Florianopolis delivered by Camnexus and UCam to introduce BRIDGE-TESC project to the coordinators of PRINT Project, where her director Prof Cristiane Derani led the presentation. More than 30 researchers and academics participated in such event. Camnexus thanks to Prof Cristiane Derani, to the coordinators of the PRINT project, to Prof Dr Alvaro Lezana, General Director of the Rectors Cabinet, to prof Lincoln Fernandes, secretary of International Affairs, and specially to Prof Dr Ubaldo Balthazar, Rector of UFSC, for their warm institutional welcome to their University.
IOT WORKSHOP TO ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS AT UFSC. FLORIANOPOLIS, JUNE - JULY, 2019.
Two IoT workshops, including a hands-on training was delivered at UFSC, Florianopolis on the 27th of June and 2nd of July. The hands-on workshop was delivered at the Department of Automation Systems (DAS) Industrial Automation Laboratory (LAI) of the CTC (Centro Tecnológico da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina). The workshop, which was supported by the coordinators and teachers of the Print Project: Industry 4.0, covered theoretical aspects of IoT, as well as having practice in the configuration and use of LoRa devices. More than 35 researchers, academics and industrial representative of the IoT cluster from the Association of Technology of Santa Catarina (ACATE) attended the workshop.
It is expected that in the future several research works will originate in the use of such equipment. As result of the workshop, important partnerships and project interests are under conversation to use the IoT network of Camnexus involving two UFSC PRINT projects, including Industry 4.0, with professors Dr Ricardo Rabelo, Dr Carlos Montez and prof Max Hering de Queiroz to support IoT developments with students and researchers of DAS at UFSC; and the second PRINT thematic area is Environmental Sustainability, including applications projects in renewable energies, the NEXUS food-water-energy, and mobility.
Two IoT workshops, including a hands-on training was delivered at UFSC, Florianopolis on the 27th of June and 2nd of July. The hands-on workshop was delivered at the Department of Automation Systems (DAS) Industrial Automation Laboratory (LAI) of the CTC (Centro Tecnológico da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina). The workshop, which was supported by the coordinators and teachers of the Print Project: Industry 4.0, covered theoretical aspects of IoT, as well as having practice in the configuration and use of LoRa devices. More than 35 researchers, academics and industrial representative of the IoT cluster from the Association of Technology of Santa Catarina (ACATE) attended the workshop.
It is expected that in the future several research works will originate in the use of such equipment. As result of the workshop, important partnerships and project interests are under conversation to use the IoT network of Camnexus involving two UFSC PRINT projects, including Industry 4.0, with professors Dr Ricardo Rabelo, Dr Carlos Montez and prof Max Hering de Queiroz to support IoT developments with students and researchers of DAS at UFSC; and the second PRINT thematic area is Environmental Sustainability, including applications projects in renewable energies, the NEXUS food-water-energy, and mobility.
IOT WORKSHOP TO ENGINEERING STUDENTS AND ACADEMICS AT UNISUL. TUBARAO, JULY, 2019.
A final IoT workshop was delivered at UNISUL, aiming at engineering students and academics of such university. The workshop was organised by Prof Celso Albuquerque and prof Francisco Duarte de Olivera, coordinator of Electrical Engineering at UNISUL.
More than 60 students and academics attended to the workshop. The workshop covered introduction to BRIDGE-TESC, the paradigm of IoT, and its impact on sustainability and the SDGs, IoT technologies, and introduction to the new Camnexus-IoT network installed at UNISUL.
A final IoT workshop was delivered at UNISUL, aiming at engineering students and academics of such university. The workshop was organised by Prof Celso Albuquerque and prof Francisco Duarte de Olivera, coordinator of Electrical Engineering at UNISUL.
More than 60 students and academics attended to the workshop. The workshop covered introduction to BRIDGE-TESC, the paradigm of IoT, and its impact on sustainability and the SDGs, IoT technologies, and introduction to the new Camnexus-IoT network installed at UNISUL.