H1 Tech - Agricultural IOT

Reconstruct and visualise automations

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Project Background

The client provides agricultural solutions based on IoT devices. The main product are control boards (PCBs or SBCs) connecting to sensors and controllers, thus facilitate unmanned control. For example, in green houses, sensors of temperature, humidity, and level of light, can be linked to controllers of heating, irrigation, roller, etc. All of which works automatically based on a set of strategies and alert staff when necessary.

Tasks

My responsibility is to build a web-based user interface for this automation system, with a dashboard integrating information from hundreds of control boards.

UX Findings

User ranging from electronic engineers to farm worker. Engineers create presets based on real-world conditions. Farm worker can pause/override the presets and manually adjust devices or parameters (heater, water jets, film roller, etc.)
Due to the complex nature of the hardware, professional users need an advanced mode to create complicated presets; while also simple mode for average user to run simpler automation
Batch operation is key in the workflow due to the large number of sensor and controllers
Dashboard will be used to present information to the public, as well as regulatory bodies. Therefore it serves display and data visualisation purposes, instead of actions.