Design of a reference architecture for an IoT sensor network

The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) intends to deploy an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network in the CIAT’s campus of Palmira (Colombia) within two experimental fields having crops with rice, maize, cassava, and bean, where the high-throughput-phenotyping and the data-driven-agronomy teams will lead the first pilot. The previous consultancy reports have presented a review of different IoT architectures (D1.1), the proposed IoT reference architecture for the pilot at CIAT (D1.2), open-source software components and services for the implementation (D2.1), and hardware alternatives for above and below-ground sensors, end-node devices, radios, and gateways (D3.1). The final report (D3.2) presents a cost estimate for the selected components of the IoT pilot based on the requirements that were established by CIAT researchers from the beginning of the consultancy.