Sensors in the field send readings by LoRa radio to a LoRaWAN gateway. The gateway passes them over the network to a server whose LoRaWAN services RING has set up from your deployment choices.
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Field hardware
Dragino SE0X-LB
LoRaWAN Soil Moisture & EC Sensor Transmitter
A field sensor designed to measure soil conditions and send those readings wirelessly over LoRaWAN to the gateway.
- Measures
- Soil moisture · Soil temperature · Electrical conductivity
- Connection
- LoRaWAN · battery powered
- Hardware price
- $75 pre-tax
- Installed
- Probe placed directly into the soil near the measurement location.
How setup works
Three steps from hardware to configuration.
01
Choose where RING will run
Tell RING which server or computer will host the LoRaWAN services.
02
Add your gateway
Confirm the frequency plan for your region (US915 today) and give RING the details your gateway needs to reach the server.
03
Review the deployment
Check the configuration RING has assembled before continuing.
Where RING fits
A LoRaWAN network has two halves: radio hardware in the field, and software on a server that receives what the hardware sends. RING prepares the server half from a few answers, so the field half has somewhere to connect.
- You bring
- Soil sensors, a LoRaWAN gateway, and a Linux server: a mini-PC on site, or a virtual machine in the cloud.
- RING prepares
- ChirpStack 4.3.2The LoRaWAN network server
- ChirpStack Gateway Bridge 4.0.10Where Basics Station gateways connect
- Mosquitto 2.0.15MQTT broker for sensor messages
- PostgreSQL 14.8 and Redis 7.0.11ChirpStack’s storage
- US915 frequency planSub-band 2, in ChirpStack and the bridge
- Preflight, install, and status scriptsChecks before and after installing
- You get
- A LoRaWAN server you can sign in to, ready for your gateway and sensors.
Built for field deployment
- Research plots
- Set up gateways and sensors without rebuilding the software environment at every location.
- Farm and field trials
- Move hardware between deployments while keeping the setup process consistent.
- University research
- Give students and researchers a guided workflow instead of a long terminal checklist.
See what’s happening in the field
RING runs its own small deployment at Purdue. The soil sensors report about every 20 minutes, and every reading is kept.
Soil temperature, last 24 hours
Research context
Developed within Purdue University’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering as part of ongoing digital agriculture research.
The project is connected to IoT4Ag, the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture research center. Its sensors report from the IoT4Ag laboratory and from a plot outdoors.
About the projectReady to set up a deployment?
Setup runs in your browser and never connects to your server. You run each step yourself and check the result before moving on.