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Organising your devices into zones allows you to assign different access permissions to your project members as well as an easy way to categorise your devices.

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Add Devices to

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an existing Zone

  1. If you haven't already create a zone. If the zone already exists choose edit zone from the Actions menu beside the zone name.

  2. Click Next until you see the add device section, below.

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  3. In the drop down menu, select all the devices you wish to add to the zone.  When you’re happy with the choice, click apply. If yow want to add new devices later on, simply select the action then edit option in the zone menu.

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  1. If this a Farm/Orchard or Geographic zone, see below.

  2. Click Next.

Farm/Orchard and Geographic Zone Details

If you choose the ‘farm/orchard’ option for the zone type, then you have more options in the zone details window below.

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Farm/Orchard

You can add information about the farm/orchard where your IoT devices will be located. Area of crop, crop type, altitude, type of irrigation and crop year can be defined. The ‘computed area’

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The Computed area in the last field is calculated from the area

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selected in the following window below.

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info

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Geographical and Farm/Orchard

This map tool allows you to select the area your devices cover. Couple this functionality with alert thresholds and you can automate management systems. For example, soil probes can be installed throughout the farm and the zones could be assigned based on soil type. The data from each soil probe is a good estimate for the entire zone and with fewer devices it is easy to see the moisture and temperature of each pasture zone and efficiently plan irrigation.

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Add link to an example of soil probes used on a farm