Farm management systems and the Future Internet era

Smart/precision farming systems are expected to play an important role in improving farming activities. During the past years, sophisticated farm management systems have emerged to replace outdated complex and monolithic farm systems and software tools. The latest trend is to enable these management...

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Published in:Computers and electronics in agriculture 2012-11, Vol.89, p.130-144
Main Authors: Kaloxylos, Alexandros, Eigenmann, Robert, Teye, Frederick, Politopoulou, Zoi, Wolfert, Sjaak, Shrank, Claudia, Dillinger, Markus, Lampropoulou, Ioanna, Antoniou, Eleni, Pesonen, Liisa, Nicole, Huether, Thomas, Floerchinger, Alonistioti, Nancy, Kormentzas, George
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural and farming systems
agriculture
Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions
Biological and medical sciences
farm management
Farm management system
farms
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Future Internet
General agroecology. Agricultural and farming systems. Agricultural development. Rural area planning. Landscaping
General agronomy. Plant production
Generalities. Agricultural and farming systems. Agricultural development
Generic enablers
information-systems
Internet
Internet of Things
management systems
precision agriculture
requirements
support
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Summary:Smart/precision farming systems are expected to play an important role in improving farming activities. During the past years, sophisticated farm management systems have emerged to replace outdated complex and monolithic farm systems and software tools. The latest trend is to enable these management systems to operate over the Internet. However, the Internet, in its current operation form, faces a number of shortcomings especially in handling vast numbers of networked devices (i.e., Internet of Things) or allowing a simplified integration of systems and services developed by different players. Currently, a number of research initiatives aim at addressing these shortcomings. Such an example is the “Future Internet” program launched by the European Commission. In the context of our work, we have specified a farm management system that takes advantage of the new characteristics that “Future Internet” offers. These come in terms of generic software modules that can be used to build farming related specialized modules. We present the functional architecture of this farm management system and provide an operational example. We also analyze the technological enablers that will make this architecture a reality.
ISSN:0168-1699
1872-7107
DOI:10.1016/j.compag.2012.09.002