The background of the LoRa gateway in the smart agriculture application project:
crops have very strict requirements on the soil environment and climate, especially in the early stages of their growth, slight changes in climate can easily lead to the death of crops and cause inevitable losses. At this time, monitoring of the growing environment of crops is particularly important. Recently, Xingzong Intelligent and its partners successfully deployed a smart agriculture project based on LoRa gateway communication technology-crop environmental monitoring in Austria. 
Keywords:
temperature monitoring (high temperature, rain, snow, frost warning)
humidity monitoring (bacterial, virus and fungus protection)
sunshine monitoring (photosynthesis)
Hardware information:
Xingzong Intelligent UG87-LoRa Gateway Outdoor Edition 
Project Difficulties:
Temperature, humidity and sunshine are essential to the health of crops. Complex soil and climate environmental data need to be collected by various sensors and then reported. How to effectively collect and process environmental data and make timely countermeasures has become a difficult point for the project.
The traditional wired connection method is not only troublesome for wiring, but also high project cost; wireless solutions based on LoRa technology can solve wiring problems and reduce deployment costs;
Xingzong intelligent UG87-LoRa gateway uses high-quality outdoor antennas for transmission in open environments The distance can reach 10+ kilometers, which means that a larger area can be covered;
the environmental data from the sensor is sent by the UG87-LoRa gateway through the high-speed 4G network to the network server (NS) designated by the user for further development and application. 
Solution deployment:
Step 1: Install the UG87-LoRa gateway on a high place (such as the roof) to get better signal transmission and reception;
Step 2: Install the temperature and humidity sensor and sunshine sensor in a suitable location to collect data, and communicate with the gateway Establish communication;
Step 3: The sensor reports data to the UG87-LoRa gateway every 30 minutes, and the gateway sends the data to The Things Network platform;
Step 4: Through development, users can view the visualized field data on the back-end program application.
Program benefits:
Cost reduction: The project will greatly reduce the time and labor costs for crop monitoring.
Increase production: Farm operators can quickly make corresponding decisions based on visual data (temperature, humidity, water content, sunlight, etc.).