Hi all,
I'm a newbie with the Arduino and this is my first project...
I have several beehives, and they are as usual on a remote place. I want to check once in an hour, the weight and temperature of several hives and transmit the result and alarms.
My idea was to have a main station on which i measure the atmospheric pressure, air humidity, temperature and battery level.
The hives would transmit their battery level, hive temperature and weight to the main station via an NRF24 module.
The main station will transmit the datas to my web server via GPRS and alarms via SMS.
What is the best way to handle the "polling" from the hives to the main station ? Best means regarding in power saving as everything will be supplied with batteries.
I need the datas every hour but alarms should be transmitted immediately. I guess the only solution is to have the NRF receiver listening all day long at the main station and the hives could transmit when they need (once a hour + alarms).
But is this compatible with a low power budget ?
Any comments welcome !
Cheers,
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