Today, as the digital wave sweeps across global agriculture, the real-time nature, accuracy and reliability of data have become the core of modern farm management. Traditional agricultural environment monitoring is often limited by bottlenecks such as communication distance, complex wiring and data processing delay. For this reason, HONDE Company has launched its revolutionary 4G Internet of Things agricultural monitoring system. This system is not merely a simple accumulation of hardware. Instead, it deeply integrates professional-grade agricultural meteorological stations, multi-layer soil sensors and industrial-grade 4G wireless communication modules, and transmits data to the cloud through the efficient MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) protocol, thus building a complete, real-time and reliable digital nerve center for smart agriculture from the “field edge” to the “decision-making cloud”.
I. System Core: The intelligent integration of the trinity
All-dimensional meteorological monitoring station
The weather station unit at the top of the system integrates high-precision sensors and can monitor air temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, rainfall, light intensity/photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), and atmospheric pressure around the clock. This provides crucial environmental evidence for agricultural operations (such as irrigation, pesticide application, and ventilation) and disaster warnings (such as frost, strong winds, and heavy rain).
Profiled soil sensing system
Multiple layers of soil sensors have been deployed in the underground part, which can simultaneously monitor the soil volumetric water content, temperature and electrical conductivity (EC value) at different depths (such as 10cm, 30cm, 50cm). This enables managers to precisely draw the “water and nutrient map” of the crop root zone, achieving on-demand precise irrigation and integrated water and fertilizer management, effectively avoiding water resource waste and soil salinization.
Industrial-grade 4G communication and MQTT data engine
This is the “intelligent brain” and “information artery” of the system. The built-in industrial-grade 4G module ensures that the device can be plugged and played immediately within the coverage of the operator’s network, eliminating the need for complex wiring. Its most significant technical highlight lies in the adoption of the MQTT protocol as the data transmission standard. As a lightweight, publish/subscribe model iot protocol, MQTT features low power consumption, low bandwidth occupation, high reliability, and strong reconnection capability after disconnection. It is particularly suitable for real-time data transmission in the wild environment with variable network conditions, ensuring that every valuable environmental data can safely and promptly reach the cloud platform.
Ii. Technical Advantages: Why Choose the HONDE 4G+MQTT Solution?
Real-time performance and reliability: The 4G network offers wide-area and stable connections. Combined with the MQTT protocol, the data upload delay can be as low as the second level, allowing farmers and managers to almost simultaneously perceive the microclimate changes in the fields.
Flexible deployment and controllable cost: The wireless design completely breaks free from the constraints of cables, is easy to install, and can quickly set up monitoring points in vast farmlands. The solar power supply solution further enhances the freedom of deployment.
Powerful cloud platform and intelligent analysis: Data is aggregated to the HONDE agricultural cloud platform or the customer-built platform via MQTT, enabling visual display, historical data analysis, and trend chart generation. The system can automatically trigger early warning messages such as drought, waterlogging, frost and insufficient fertility based on set thresholds, and deliver them directly to users via mobile apps, text messages and other means.
Openness and integration: By adopting the standard MQTT protocol, the system can be easily integrated with third-party agricultural management software, large smart agriculture platforms or government regulatory systems, maximizing the value of data.
Iii. Application Scenarios and Value Manifestation
Precision field planting (such as wheat, corn, rice, etc.) : Based on real-time meteorological and soil moisture data, the optimal irrigation plan is formulated to save water and increase efficiency, while at the same time warning of meteorological risks of pest and disease occurrence.
Smart orchards and Tea Gardens: Monitor the microclimate of the park to prevent late spring cold snaps and hot and dry winds. Based on soil data, precise drip irrigation and water and fertilizer management are implemented to enhance fruit quality and yield.
Facility agriculture and greenhouse sheds: Achieve remote centralized monitoring and automated interlocking control of the greenhouse environment (temperature, light, water, air, and fertilizer), reduce labor costs, and improve crop quality and multiple cropping index.
Digital Farms and Agricultural Research: They provide continuous and systematic front-line data support for the digital management of farms and also offer valuable field experiment data for agricultural technology research.
Iv. Looking Forward to the Future
HONDE’s 4G Internet of Things agricultural monitoring system represents the cutting-edge level in the current field of agricultural environmental monitoring. With the popularization of 5G networks and the development of edge computing, future systems will be more intelligent, capable of conducting preliminary data analysis and decision-making at the device end, and responding more promptly.
About HONDE
HONDE is a leading provider of smart agriculture and environmental monitoring solutions, dedicated to empowering the sustainable development of global agriculture through Internet of Things, big data and artificial intelligence technologies. The company’s products are renowned for their high precision, high reliability and in-depth industry application.
Conclusion
Under the global proposition of food security and sustainable development, data-driven precision agriculture has become an inevitable choice. The HONDE 4G Internet of Things agricultural monitoring system, with its core advantages of 4G wireless wide-area connection and MQTT efficient data transmission protocol, is becoming a solid bridge connecting physical farmland and the digital world. It helps global growers gain unprecedented clarity in understanding agricultural conditions, make scientific decisions to control production, and ultimately achieve multiple goals such as cost reduction, efficiency improvement, quality enhancement, and environmental protection.
For more agricultural sensor information, please contact Honde Technology Co., LTD.
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Post time: Dec-02-2025