Farm management systems and the Future Internet era

  • Authors:

  • Alexandros Kaloxylos;Robert Eigenmann;Frederick Teye;Zoi Politopoulou;Sjaak Wolfert;Claudia Shrank;Markus Dillinger;Ioanna Lampropoulou;Eleni Antoniou;Liisa Pesonen;Huether Nicole;Floerchinger Thomas;Nancy Alonistioti;George Kormentzas

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece and Department of Telecommunications Science and Technology, University of Peloponn ...;Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Munich, Germany;MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Plant Production Research, Vihti, Finland;OPEKEPE, Domokou 5, Athens, Greece;LEI Wageningen UR, Wageningen, The Netherlands;John Deere, Advanced Technology and Engineering, John Deere European Technology & Innovation Center, Deere & Company, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Munich, Germany;Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece;OPEKEPE, Domokou 5, Athens, Greece;MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Plant Production Research, Vihti, Finland;John Deere, Advanced Technology and Engineering, John Deere European Technology & Innovation Center, Deere & Company, Kaiserslautern, Germany;John Deere, Advanced Technology and Engineering, John Deere European Technology & Innovation Center, Deere & Company, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece;OPEKEPE, Domokou 5, Athens, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

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 During the past years, sophisticated farm management systems have emerged to replace outdated complex and monolithic farm systems and software tools.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.