Prototype Environment for integrating and sharing Farm Things and associated data

Abstract

Farm equipment, including sensors and mobile machinery, create increasing amounts of data, and data can also be gained from third-party services. In order to be able to fully take advantage of this a farmer needs to be able to gather, store, process, and share the data as needed. In this work we describe a prototype for open environment that can gather, combine, store, select, and share data from arbitrary sources and with external partners, as well as use the data in decision making and provide it as input for various services. The environment is built using the Service Oriented Architecture paradigm and is therefore not tied to any specific operating system or software framework. We have tested the environment on the farm scale in Finland. The system was found suitable to improve the work in all tested tasks.

Improving the Architecture of Agricultural Knowledge Processing Systems using Design Patterns

“…In the context of the CLAFIS (2014) project, a KPS was designed and implemented for disease pressure calculation on cereals. The system was designed as a module of a larger cloud-based service (Nikander et al 2017) and had an expert system for disease management at its core. It, therefore, accessed static knowledge 4 (farmer, fields, crop, weather data, etc.)…”