The iMAX 5G Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN) system is a private network communication system that enables independent networking without relying on telecom operators’ facilities, and is exclusively used for private network services. As such, it delivers exceptional availability, reliability and stability. Designed to build highly available networks and address ultra-long-distance outdoor network interconnection, all its product series feature ultra-long communication distances and support a rich array of network technologies. Unlike simple WiFi-based wireless bridges, the iMAX WMAN system supports essential WMAN networking technologies including VLAN, bridging, routing and firewall. It also accommodates diverse networking architectures such as ring network, hot backup routing, centerless mesh network (MESH) and tree network, enabling it to carry IP networking services for a large number of devices. In addition, the iMAX WMAN system seamlessly integrates with optical fiber networks, facilitating backhaul access on the WMAN backbone side. This system can be widely applied to transmit large-capacity video and data across the entire agricultural industrial chain, providing more efficient access to agricultural production resources for pre-production, in-production and post-production stages, optimizing production processes, streamlining product circulation and transforming consumption patterns.
This solution is a summary of Guoxin Longxin’s years of practical experience in wireless networking applications across numerous scenarios including smart agriculture and smart farms.
The agricultural IoT monitoring solution integrates IoT, big data, cloud services and other technologies, and collaborates with a variety of sensors to realize agricultural IoT monitoring, providing users with reliable and stable technologies and services.
The iMAX WMAN system primarily addresses the link backhaul of critical data and large-capacity video for pre-production, in-production and post-production agricultural activities, including soil testing and formulated fertilization, production resource management, standardized planting, agricultural product traceability, agricultural IoT, remote sensing monitoring, smart agricultural machinery, drones, geographic information and big data applications.
Agricultural robots are automated or semi-automated devices that take agricultural products as the operation object, possess partial human information perception and movement capabilities, and can replace or supplement manual labor to a certain extent for production, picking, management and maintenance work. Classified by mobility characteristics, they can be divided into mobile robots and manipulator robots.
The application of agricultural robots has become increasingly widespread, including but not limited to the following:
Reliable and stable network support is essential for the operation of all types of robots. Guoxin Longxin’s iMAX Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN) system is equipped with a variety of high-reliability technologies including VRRP hot backup redundancy and multi-link data mirroring, making it the optimal solution for robot networking in outdoor scenarios.
3. Unmanned Automation of Agricultural Machinery: The iMAX WMAN Builds a High-Reliability NetworkThe automated operation of agricultural machinery mainly relies on advances in navigation and control technologies. Positioning and navigation systems and machine vision are the most widely applied technologies for automatic navigation, alongside laser navigation, geomagnetic navigation, inertial navigation, dynamic path planning and obstacle avoidance technologies. With the further development of machine vision and artificial intelligence technologies, intelligent navigation technologies are expected to be applied on a larger global scale, expanding from open-field operations to protected agriculture, aquatic fishery and other sectors.
Agricultural machinery navigation and control technologies have high requirements for data transmission efficiency. Similar to autonomous driving in road traffic scenarios, they require real-time updates of map data and road condition information, and make control judgments based on relevant data. The iMAX WMAN system ensures real-time, reliable, efficient and high-precision data transmission. In the field of open-field operations, traffic conditions are relatively simple and environmental changes are minimal compared with road traffic, so autonomous driving and remote control are expected to be implemented first.
According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, plant protection UAVs feature flexible maneuverability, high spraying efficiency and excellent pesticide application effects, and can overcome the difficulty of ground spraying equipment accessing fields under complex terrain conditions. At present, more than 400 enterprises in China are engaged in the full industrial chain businesses of plant protection UAV R&D, production and sales. The main models are dominated by electric multi-rotor UAVs and DJI industrial models. Beyond plant protection, more UAVs will also be deployed in numerous scenarios such as agricultural transportation, fire prevention, monitoring and measurement, and live broadcasting.
With the increase in operation types and the growing complexity of operating environments, traditional networks can no longer meet the UAV requirements for bandwidth, latency and reliability. The HuanYou wireless low-frequency broadband self-organizing network system is capable of ultra-high-definition video transmission, ultra-long-distance backhaul and remote low-latency control. It can support UAVs in cloud-based intelligent computing, process sensor and video data generated by UAVs, and improve operational reliability.
Smart farms adopt a variety of modern cultivation methods for crop planting, including greenhouses and high-standard farmland under intensive cultivation, and their intelligent management and monitoring are inseparable from network support.
In view of the characteristics of greenhouses, Guoxin Longxin’s wireless private network system delivers an intelligent greenhouse solution by transmitting video data and data from sensors such as soil moisture/temperature/conductivity sensors and environmental monitoring sensors. It can real-time monitor air temperature and humidity, soil temperature and humidity, soil electrical conductivity, carbon dioxide concentration and light intensity inside greenhouses, and upload the data to the platform in real time.
In the production of high-standard farmland, crops require meticulous management and maintenance from sowing to harvesting, and the soil and crop growth conditions need to be monitored at all times. Applied to traditional agriculture, Guoxin Longxin’s agricultural wireless private network system conducts real-time monitoring of soil and crop growth conditions in experimental farmland, and transmits the monitoring data and video to the farmland monitoring center in real time, enabling managers to grasp seedling conditions, water and fertilizer status, as well as diseases, pests and weeds based on the data and video.
Forest fires and grassland fires are extremely destructive, and once they spread, they are difficult to extinguish. It is particularly critical to detect fires at an incipient stage and put them out as quickly as possible. Forest fires often occur in remote mountain forests and are hard to spot, so timely detection is crucial for early fire suppression. Grassland fires or farmland fires are largely associated with human burning activities; failure to detect them promptly may not only cause severe casualties and property losses, but also lead to serious air pollution. Guoxin Longxin’s “iMAX Wireless Private Network System + Fire Recognition and Monitoring System” provides a highly reliable, large-capacity high-definition monitoring system solution, enabling long-distance and high-bandwidth video backhaul, and offering scientific support for timely hazard detection and preventing fire spread.
The construction of farmland water conservancy, especially the water resource scheduling system of irrigation districts, is of great significance to agricultural development. The objectives of water resource scheduling and management usually involve flood control, power generation, urban and industrial water supply, irrigation, reservoir sedimentation prevention and ecological environment protection. The status of the water resource allocation system (water level and reservoir capacity) serves as the initial condition for scheduling decisions. The solution algorithms for optimal water resource scheduling include mathematical programming methods, network flow methods, large-scale system decomposition and coordination methods, and simulation technologies.
The ultimate goal of a smart irrigation district is to establish a system based on an information collection system, supported by a high-speed, safe and reliable computer network, and centered on technical and decision support systems. It adopts advanced data collection, transmission and processing means, and leverages software systems to achieve unified management of water fee information and resources for all water users in the irrigation district. It enables real-time online monitoring, data statistics and inquiry, water intake plan management and control, promotes the sustainable utilization of water resources, water conservation, and the transparency and openness of water fee collection.
Since many areas in the irrigation district have no network or power supply, wireless private network equipment is ideally suited for transmitting on-site video and data back to the management center. The iMAX Wireless Metropolitan Area Network system, with its high reliability, ultra-long transmission distance and high bandwidth, can fully address the transmission of large-capacity video and data in the irrigation district. Meanwhile, the iPower lithium battery solar power system can solve the power supply problem for widely distributed information monitoring nodes.
8. Agricultural Product Traceability & Rural E-commerce Operation: 5G Virtual Private Network Empowers Rural E-commerceFor the “Internet + e-commerce” operation service of agricultural and sideline products, it was originally planned to build an internet-based private network system to support the interconnection of its basic data. How to design the network system to achieve the interconnection of business systems?
Combined with the needs of rural e-commerce users, Guoxin Longxin has designed a three-tier network architecture for users, which greatly reduces the total system cost.
✅ Edge layer: Where conditions permit, wireless local area network (WLAN) or wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) private network is adopted for interconnection;
✅ Middle layer: Guoxin Longxin’s SD-CX cloud switching products integrated with 4G/5G wireless wide area network (WWAN) links are used to realize cloud interconnection with multi-link access (residential broadband, 4G/5G, wireless private network, wired LAN or carrier dedicated line);
✅ Backbone layer: A private cloud platform is built, and high-bandwidth internet dedicated lines provide business support to achieve stable and efficient release of user services.
