The WAZIUP IoT low cost and energy efficient communication platform is released for pilot deployment. The platform includes two parts: i) LoRa sensor node and ii) LoRa Gateway. The LoRa Sensor node is based on open hardware Arduino and LoRa Gateway is based on open hardware Raspberry-pi. However, WAZIUP LoRa sensor library support various Arduino compatible boards. It also supports several LoRa module so far available in the markets. The Gateway software framework allows to configure the Gateway from remotely with the internet connection. The Gateway supports MQTT as well as REST APIs to push the data to the cloud. WAZUIP LoRa platform is used by WAZIUP MVPs and deployed in different pilot sites.
We created a Cloud platform able to collect the data from the sensors, to store it, to display it and finally to analyse it. The Cloud platform has a user-friendly web and mobile interfaces. It is used by many actors inside and outside of the project, such as for hackathons, bootcamps, pilots, startups and entrepreneurs. During the reporting period, we updated the security aspects, the data models, the dashboard, created new APIs and finally created automatic tests for quality insurance. Novelties include MQTT, actuation, gateway management, sensors calibration, better search capacity, better sensors management, sensor ontologies, improved database management procedures and deployment techniques. As of 2019, the platform has reached its second major release. It has 500 user subscriptions and is actively used, with 318 sensors created.
We also developed the WAZIFARM platform that is an application platform for various farming sectors. End-users of different domains can benefit from several features of WAZIFARM in order to have a fully-fledged visualization application and analytics dashboard. This tool is free to use for development of applications. It is fully integrated with WAZIUP cloud platform. For instance, a developer, or an entrepreneur can use this tool for rapid development of farming application. Within few hours, you can develop your own farming applications dashboard.
The WAZIUP developed five MVPs. These are soil moisture monitoring, weather station, water quality in the fish farm, cattle rustling and urban waste. These applications are developed based on the sensing and cloud platform. Each of the MVPs is deployed in several real-life pilot environments. The agriculture application demonstrates in 5 pilot sites: UGB farm, Senegal (tomatoes crops, Kiara and Mongol), Urbanatic Gardens, Togo (Vegetables), Nasso site, Burkina Faso (banana), DKC farm Ghana, Peace &Love vegetable farm (Ghana). The cattle farm is demonstrated in UGB CIMEL, the fish farming in 4 locations, Kumah Farm (Ghana), Lazarus farm (Ghana), Comoe dam (Burkina Faso) and Ndiawdoune site (Senegal). The Urban waste pilot is demonstrated in Togo.
Last but not least, WAZIUP organized conference, workshop, and innovation events in order to promote and exploit the technologies in wider impact in the African context.
