A Monitoring Application for Animal Repelling Devices in Smart Agriculture

Monitoring the operational status of IoT devices is a fundamental task for the deployment of reliable IoT-based applications. This task is even more crucial when such applications are deployed in rural environments, as typically occurs in Smart Agriculture, due to the long distance and wide area to be covered for implementing cost-effective solutions. Starting from an innovative IoT deployment for defending crops against ungulates attacks, this paper provides a comprehensive description about the design, development, and assessment of a monitoring application for IoT animal repelling devices. To achieve the maximum level of flexibility and scalability, modern virtualization technologies (i.e., containers) have been adopted for the development of the monitoring application. Finally, experimental results obtained from the utilization of the monitoring application in a realworld scenario are reported.