A Novell Mushroom Cultivation Mechanization Architecture by Using Multi-Agent and parallelism Systems

Abstract

Abstract-To increase efficiency, speed, accuracy and to decrease cost, the recent approaches in developing decision support systems for agriculture, and more generally for environmental problems management, tend to adopt a "systemic" approach. This paper presents a new methodology for mechanization of mushroom cultivation which can be applied to other agricultural products. We are using a multi-agent system to parallelize most of mechanization steps which can considerably increase the speed and efficiency of cultivation or production. This system consists of six agents, namely, Monitoring of environmental condition, Preparation of Compost, Day counter, Temperature regulator, Sprinkler and Harvest. The paper provides a review on the studies on mechanization with multi-agent and the other methods, the multi-agent model, functionality of each agent, the overall efficiency of this methodology and compares it with some other existing works.