2.7.2 Ease of Setup
Raspberry Pi bit Laborious whereas BeagleBone Black as simple as it gets.
Winner: BeagleBone Black.
2.7.3 Connections
| BeagleBone Black | Raspberry Pi | Result |
| 3 I2C Buses | 1 I2C Bus | BeagleBone Black Winner |
| CAN Bus | 1 SPI Bus | |
| SPI Bus | 8 GPIO Pins | |
| 4 Timers | 1 UART Interface | |
| 5 Serial Ports | ||
| 65 GPIO Pins | ||
| 8 PWM O/P | ||
| 7 Analog Inputs |
2.7.4 Processor Showdown
BeagleBone Black is nearly 2 times as fast as Raspberry Pi.
Winner:BeagleBone Black.
2.7.5 Right Choice for Projects
| BeagleBone Black | Raspberry Pi |
| 1. Projects that need to interface plenty of External Sensors. | 1. Multimedia based Projects. |
| 2. High Speed Processing. | 2. Community Driven. |
| 3. Commercialization Projects. | 3. Graphical Learning Platform |
| 4. Embedded System Learning | 4. Internet Connected Projects. |
2.8 Conclusions
The proposed integrated Agro-IoT system tends to integrate the earlier problems faced in the previous smart farming as well as tried to find out the solution for the same. Thus all the traditional monitoring problems faced by one farmer get solved by getting together in a one integrated agro-IoT system. The researchers have succeeded in reaching their objective and they made the whole system efficient for the upcoming modern farming era.
2.9 Future Work
The prototype model of the proposed system can be built up in real farming area to replace the traditional monitoring system of farmers in the field. With the advancement of upcoming technology, the agro-IoT system can be more advanced in future.
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