INTEL-IRRIS & AgriFutur will be presented in Panama!
Prof. C. Pham, who coordinatd the PRIMA INTEL-IRRIS project and who is leading the IoT sensor activities in AgriFutur, has been invited by the French Embassy in Panama, to present the methodology, the results and lessons learnt when building & deploying cost-effective sensors at a scientific France-Panama event co-organized by the French Ambassy on innovation for sustainable agriculture. Download the presented slides in .pdf.
The event was located at Ciudad del Saber, Panama City. The invitation of Prof C. Pham was the result of a collaboration since June 2023 with INDICATIC AIP directed by Prof. P. Aniorté. A big thank you to the French Embassy team in Panama for this exciting event with an incredible program and more than 1000 participants!
Watch the recorded video on YouTube (for the whole video, click here), otherwise, click below to jump to the presentation from Prof. C. Pham.
RADIO in UPPA’s March 2025 Newsletters
RADIO project is presented in the March 2025 Newsletter that UPPA is publishing and distributing to collaborators and stakeholders. See the online version.
AgriFutur: PCBs for the Generic Sensor Platform are available!
The PCBs to build the Generic Sensor Platform are now available. Based on the work conducted in the PRIMA INTEL-IRRIS project, the PCBs have been rebranded for AgriFutur and the control software is improved to support a much wider range of physical sensors. All manufacturing files to order the fully assembled PCB from PCB manufacturers are available on the PEPR AgriFutur GitHub.
LoRaCAM-AI for AgriFutur: first PoC is promising!
Integration of LoRaCAM-AI is almost at its final stage with the low power mode validated! Get all the explanations, diagrams, code and software tool to test the LoRaCAM-AI on the GitHub.
Next step is to embed AI processing on the captured image to implement some image recognition tasks. The objective is to have a generic low power camera that can be trained for various applications in agroecology.
In this video, the LED on the XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense will blink as follows: (1) after power up and an image is ready for encoding and transmission, the LED will slowly blink twice; (2) each time a packet has been successfully transmitted the LED will blink once; (3) when all packets have been transmitted, the LED will again slowly blink twice. The power will be managed by an external Arduino Pro Mini which LED will blink as follows: (1) after power on, and after each wake up, the LED will blink 5 times fast; (2) each time that the activity pin from the ESP32 goes below the defined activity threshold, the LED will blink once; (3) when the activity pin has been below the activity threshold for at least 2s, the LED will slowly blink 4 times, indicating that the power to the ESP32 is going to be cut. This is when the Arduino Pro Mini will go in deep sleep for typically 1 hour.
Contributions to PEPR AgriFutur are on a GitHub
During the whole December 2024 month, we tested various ESP32 camera board to finally select the XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense board! The main criterion was to have enough pins left to connect an SPI LoRa radio module. 3 boards offer this capabilities: `Freenove ESP32-S3 WROOM`, `Freenove ESP32 WROVER v1.6` and `XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense`. The choice was finally set to the `XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense` which has a huge developer community and enough resource to run embedded AI processing that we want to add in the future in a quite compact format.
We released on the PEPR AgriFutur GitHub a PoC of a smart image sensor device based on XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense with an OV2640 camera capable of periodically capturing and transmitting with LoRa radio a small size image, typically 128×128, in a robust encoding image format. Proper casing for outdoor deployment will follow.
UPPA starts to work on ERASMUS+ RADIO!
Activities have started for WP2. See https://iotsensingsystem.live-website.com/news-from-erasmus-radio.
PEPR “Agroécologie et Numérique” AgriFutur is now official
The PEPR AgriFutur from the “Agroecology & Digital” program is now officially a new project!
Most contents have been added!
After some days of intense work, the main contents to described the various projects have been integrated from various sources. Now, the idea of having a single location to describe our activities on IoT & Sensing Systems become reality!
Stay tuned for news from Erasmus+ RADIO and PEPR AgriFutur!
The idea of a dedicated web site has emerged!
The idea to have a dedicated web site to present all my recent activities related to IoT & Sensing Systems in various international projects has emerged! The motivation was to have a single location to present the activities that span many projects, some them I’m coordinating, others where I’m participating. The description of the activities stays at the very high level, focusing on listing important news, results and achievements. My institutional professional web page at University of Pau still lists all my scientific publications, keynote & tutorials, as well as a complete list of the projects I’m, or was, involved in, going beyond the IoT & Sensing domain (for instance the PRIMA RESILINK project that is not in the IoT & Sensing domain).