SenseCAP LoRaWAN Empowers Tourism by Collecting Environmental Data at Hakka Villages in Heyuan, Guangdong, Southern China

As one of the biggest real estate developers in China, Vanke has also joined the program of “10,000 enterprises assisting 10,000 villages” in the country’s effort to alleviate poverty. One of the projects Vanke has been leading is located at Xiankeng village in Heyuan City, Guangdong Province, Southern China.

Xiankeng is a village with rich roots in Hakka culture, together with some farming activities such as growing rice and tea. After many discussions on different methods for improving the villagers’ income, with the input from villagers, institutes, local governments, and enterprises, the final answer for alleviating poverty in Xiankeng was the vitalization of its tourism. To this end, in addition to renovating Hakka architecture in the village that would attract tourists interested in Hakka culture, Vanke considered using IoT technology to create further values for Xiankeng.

With hundreds of thousands of tourist destinations in China, how to make Xiankeng appealing to the public remains a difficult question. Vanke’s proposal was to use IoT sensors to collect data to prove that Xiankeng’s weather and environment are amiable for tourists in all of the seasons. The IoT technology would also further benefit the local farmers, who could use the data to validate the good quality of their rice and tea, thus creating added value and brand recognition among customers.

Seeed gladly accepted Vanke’s invitation to join this partnership by deploying the SenseCAP wireless sensor network solution, to empower the tourism industry in Xiankeng village. With constant communication between Seeed and Vanke, together with several site visits to Xiankeng to talk with local residents, we came up with the following solution: deploying a weather station in the rice field and an environmental monitoring system in the tea plantation.

The following parameters are collected through two sets of devices at the weather station in the rice field and the environmental monitoring system in the tea plantation.

• Barometric pressure
• Air Temperature
• Air Humidity
• Light Intensity
• CO2
• Wind Speed
• Wind Direction
• Rain Volume
• Soil Temperature
• Soil Moisture

With the data collected, integrated, and shown on a webpage as well as a mini-program on the WeChat platform, the local villagers can receive useful information to support their activities in managing the rice field and tea plantation. With input from farming experts, alarms are set for different parameters. When the data shows an abnormality, the owners receive notifications and can take immediate action.

Meanwhile, the real-time and historical environmental data are accessible by the local tourism agencies and stakeholders for promoting Xiankeng tourism. For different seasons, they can promote different tourist activities with the support of various weather indicators.

These SenseCAP products are deployed in Xiankeng to gather the above-mentioned data.

• SenseCAP LoRaWAN Gateway
• SenseCAP Wireless Barometric Pressure Sensor – LoRaWAN
• SenseCAP Wireless Air Temperature & Humidity Sensor – LoRaWAN
• SenseCAP Wireless Light Intensity Sensor – LoRaWAN
• SenseCAP Wireless CO2 Sensor – LoRaWAN
• SenseCAP Wireless Soil Moisture & Temperature Sensor – LoRaWAN
• SenseCAP Wireless Wind Speed Sensor – LoRaWAN
• SenseCAP Wireless Wind Direction Sensor – LoRaWAN
• SenseCAP Wireless Rain Gauge – LoRaWAN

In 2022, we released SenseCAP S210x series, a brand-new series of LoRaWAN-based sensors. Considering that S210x series have longer battery life and more user-friendly experience, we have added the hyperlinks of the latest generation of SenseCAP sensors.

Currently, Xiankeng is recognized as a demonstration base for villages that seek to employ technologies in rural revitalization efforts.

This project also contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals.

Partners：

• Vanke
• Xiankeng Village

What is SenseCAP?

SenseCAP is a series of industrial IoT products. Its LoRaWAN version is based on LoRaWAN protocol and deployable worldwide with multiple ISM bands. SenseCAP is encapsulated in an IP66 enclosure, making it applicable in outdoor remote sensing scenarios such as Smart Farming, Smart City, and other IoT applications that need low-power, long-distance, and long-term data collection.

About SenseCAP S210X Series

With the IP66 rating, -40 ~ +85C ° operating temperature and built-in 19Ah high-capacity battery, combined with the devices’ low power consumption, the S210X series can operate in harsh outdoor
environments for up to 10 years with a range of up to 10km. The built-in Bluetooth facilitates setup and greatly reduces large-scale deployment costs. Users can focus on application development with the easy set-up, and start retrieving data in a few steps. Just install the device, bind it using the QR code and configure the network, then data can be viewed from the SenseCAP portal, which supports popular IoT protocols such as HTTP and MQTT.

Here’s the newest video of the SenseCAP S210x Series unboxing and shows how to deploy in your area

Update June 2022: SenseCAP S210x Series are currently available for purchase. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment here, email us ([email protected]), or join the discussion at Discord.

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More Info

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• Learn more about SenseCAP
• SenseCAP API Introduction

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