Guidance for Building an Agricultural Sensor Network using IoT and Amazon 1 Sensors on the farm sends JSON

1 Sensors on the farm sends JSON data to

AWS IoT Core.
DocumentDB
AWS IoT rule forwards data to Amazon
Smart and sustainable farming technique to enhance agricultural productivity 2
Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
AWS Cloud (Amazon MSK) based on rule conditions
that are setup.
Smart Farm Sensors
Region
Reporting JSON data from the sensors is stored in
3
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB
VPC compatibility) leveraging Amazon MSK
Soil, humidity & 8 serverless and containerized Kafka
temperature connector that is setup on AWS Fargate.
1 Amazon QuickSight Amazon Athena
3 Smart farms containerized microservices
IoT rule 4
process the sensor and third-party data
received, and generate recommendations
2 to farmers. Smart farm's microservices
AWS IoT Amazon Managed Apache Kafka Amazon DocumentDB
Core Connector
can run on either Amazon Elastic
Streaming for
5 Container Service (Amazon ECS),
Apache Kafka
(Amazon MSK) Fargate, or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes
4 Service (Amazon EKS)“
Farmer 6
5 Farmers would be notified through
Smart-Farm containerized 5
7 Amazon Simple Notification Service
Microservices (Amazon SNS).
Amazon SNS 6
Amazon EventBridge triggers AWS
6
Lambda function periodically to collect
7 Amazon ECS AWS Fargate Amazon EKS AWS Lambda Amazon EventBridge data such as weather updates and soil
tests results from third-parties.

Agri Officers, Agriculture officers, insurance companies,

Amazon API Gateway 7
Insurance Companies or farmers can access smart farm
application for additional information
using Amazon API Gateway (this is an
6
optional user action).

Smart Farm’s organization admins can

Weather Forecast/ 8
Third Party Data generate reports or perform on-demand
analysis on the data stored in Amazon
DocumentDB using Amazon Athena,
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