TPS and AppBlocks® for Precision Agriculture

Hot or cold spells can reduce crop yield or even damage entire fields, making air and soil temperature monitoring vital for traditional outdoor farming. TPS devices can incorporate Tibbit sensor modules or work with third-party temperature sensors, such as analog, Modbus, 1-wire, and I2C devices. By configuring temperature thresholds in your application, you can trigger alerts when air or soil temperature becomes inhospitable. Thanks to the visual application-building approach of the AppBlocks platform, you can set up temperature monitoring without prior programming skills.

Knowing soil parameters like moisture, pH, conductivity, and temperature helps farmers optimize fertilization and irrigation schedules. TPS supports Modbus soil sensors supplied by third parties, while the AppBlocks no-code platform simplifies the Modbus sensor integration process, reducing the complexity to just entering a few parameters.

Storage ponds, water tanks, and irrigation channels are crucial for maintaining the water supply in traditional outdoor farms. TPS devices seamlessly interface with ultrasonic or float-based liquid-level sensors. Once the sensors are connected, you can set up easy-to-follow flowcharts in AppBlocks to trigger notifications if levels dip or rise beyond acceptable ranges, all done through a drag-and-drop interface.

Reducing excess water consumption is a key objective in precision agriculture. Strict water dosing can also be used strategically to improve crop quality, for example, in grape production. Irrigation is largely a schedule-based activity requiring a data table to keep daily schedules. AppBlocks, the no-code development platform, greatly simplifies the creation of database tables and automatically creates web pages for users to work with them. As a result, a simple schedule-based application can be built in minutes rather than days. Watering logic can be further enhanced by introducing a feedback loop in the form of moisture sensors, which interface with TPS devices via the Modbus interface.