In modern intelligent agriculture, all kinds of equipment and systems are widely used in field management and production decision-making. For example, integrated irrigation and fertilization equipment is used to remotely control the supply of water and fertilizer, soil moisture monitoring stations and agricultural weather stations collect environmental data in real time, large intelligent agricultural machinery and agricultural drones perform field operations, and intelligent greenhouse control systems regulate the environment in the shed.

These intelligent agricultural solutions and systems need to realize the functions of remote data collection, remote state monitoring and intelligent decision-making, among which efficient network connection is the key guarantee. However, unlike IT equipment concentrated in the office, agricultural Internet of Things devices are often distributed in remote fields and various production sites. How to connect them remotely stably and safely is a major technical challenge facing smart agriculture.

Unstable network access: Farm monitoring points and equipment are widely distributed and numerous, and traditional wiring is costly and infeasible. A large number of agricultural equipment rely on cellular mobile network (4G/5G) connections, such as tractors, drone base stations or field monitoring points. The problem of instability and high latency of such connections is prominent, requiring network solutions that can adapt to signal fluctuations and maintain communication through backup links or optimization.

• • Difficulties in remote data synchronization and collection: Field equipment is usually located in an intranet environment (for example, 4G Internet access), and many mobile networks only provide LAN IP, without public network IP, so these equipment cannot be directly accessed from outside the traditional scheme.

Remote maintenance of equipment is difficult: When equipment is deployed in remote areas, on-site troubleshooting and maintenance costs are high. If the network solution does not support remote management, then maintenance personnel need frequent field inspections, reducing the efficiency advantage of smart agriculture over traditional methods.

Security and data protection: Agricultural Internet of Things is directly related to crop growth and equipment control. If there is no security mechanism after networking, it may face the risk of data leakage or improper control. Decentralized device authentication, transmission encryption and rights management are pain points that must be considered.

In view of the current situation of many agricultural equipment, heavy tasks and complex network environment during the autumn harvest, Aweseed off-site networking scheme is based on self-research SD-WAN technology, providing a flexible, low-cost off-site networking solution. **It does not rely on public network IP, can penetrate the complex network environment, will be scattered in the field of agricultural equipment into a unified virtual local area network, to achieve remote control, data collection and centralized management.

Aweseed Industrial Router R300 Series: Efficient Network Access for Agricultural Equipment

Water and fertilizer integration equipment, weather stations, moisture monitors, etc. deployed in farmland can be connected to the Internet by connecting Aweseed R300 series industrial routers. At the same time, it has a serial port model, which is convenient to directly connect the agricultural controller and sensing terminal to complete the on-site network supply and data upload. It is worth mentioning that R300 series routers, with their outstanding performance in various aspects, achieved the first sales share of e-commerce platform industrial routers in 2024.

In addition, this series of equipment supports 4G/5G dual-card redundancy. Even if one SIM card is disconnected during operation, it can automatically switch backup links to ensure uninterrupted operation. It can also use Aweseed Three Netcom Internet of Things traffic cards in conjunction with each other to intelligently switch signal sources among the three major operators of China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, and automatically select the optimal network according to the terrain and base station coverage.

Aweseed remote networking: fast and flexible networking capability adapted to the field environment

Different from traditional VPN, Aweseed networking does not require public network IP and complex configuration, is ready to use when deployed, is compatible with cellular networks such as 4G/5G, and is suitable for field environments without broadband. Through the "zero-contact configuration", the equipment will automatically enter the network when it goes online, without changing the original architecture or professional and technical personnel. During the autumn harvest, if you need to temporarily expand nodes and adjust deployment, you can also change networking rules in the cloud at any time, which is extremely flexible.

Aweseed global intelligent link: to ensure stable transmission during the autumn harvest peak

At the transmission level, the Aweseed realizes automatic selection of relay nodes and link quality detection through self-developed global intelligent links to ensure stable and low-delay transmission of video streams, sensing data and remote control instructions. Even during the peak period of high concurrent autumn harvest operations, it can ensure rapid control response and continuous data upload. Support the combination of point-to-point direct connection and backbone node relay to meet the performance requirements of cross-regional and cross-operator communication on farms.

Aweseed support centralized visual management: efficient control of farm network operation status

In addition, the cloud management platform provided by the Aweseed can view the device status, network quality and traffic usage in a unified way, realizing centralized management of decentralized devices. Combined with the alarm notification mechanism, the administrator can grasp the risks such as equipment failure and network interruption in the first time and respond quickly, effectively reducing the production loss caused by equipment disconnection and data loss during the autumn harvest stage.

Aweseed Full Link Encryption and Permission Control: Building a Secure Defense Line for Agricultural Internet of Things

In terms of data security, the Aweseed builds an end-to-end encrypted VPN tunnel, and uses RSA/AES hybrid encryption algorithm in the transmission process to ensure that the data and control instructions of field equipment are not eavesdropped. All devices support isolation and permission subdivision, and only authorized nodes can exchange visits, which fully meets the high requirements for remote control security in agricultural scenarios. The whole scheme has also passed the three-level certification of national level protection, and can be privatized and deployed, which meets the compliance requirements in the information transformation of agricultural enterprises.

With the above advantages, Aweseed off-site networking has built a stable, reliable and secure communication infrastructure for smart agriculture, effectively opening up the connection path from the field to the data center. It is based on this network base that all kinds of agricultural Internet of Things equipment can realize remote monitoring, centralized management and intelligent decision-making under cross-regional deployment, and accelerate agricultural production to digital and refined.