TY - JOUR
T1 - A cloud-based farm management system
T2 - architecture and implementation
AU - Kaloxylos, Alexandros
AU - Groumas, Aggelos
AU - Sarris, Vassilis
AU - Katsikas, Lampros
AU - Magdalinos, Panagis
AU - Antoniou, Eleni
AU - Politopoulou, Zoi
AU - Wolfert, Sjaak
AU - Brewster, Christopher
AU - Eigenmann, Robert
AU - Maestre Terol, Carlos
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Recent technological advances have paved the way for developing and offering advanced services for the stakeholders in the agricultural sector. A paradigm shift is underway from proprietary and monolithic tools to Internet-based, cloud hosted, open systems that will enable more effective collaboration between stakeholders. This new paradigm includes the technological support of application developers to create specialized services that will seamlessly interoperate, thus creating a sophisticated and customisable working environment for the end users. We present the implementation of an open architecture that instantiates such an approach, based on a set of domain independent software tools called "generic enablers" that have been developed in the context of the FI-WARE project. The implementation is used to validate a number of innovative concepts for the agricultural sector such as the notion of a services' market place and the system's adaptation to network failures. During the design and implementation phase, the system has been evaluated by end users, offering us valuable feedback. The results of the evaluation process validate the acceptance of such a system and the need of farmers to have access to sophisticated services at affordable prices. A summary of this evaluation process is also presented in this paper.
AB - Recent technological advances have paved the way for developing and offering advanced services for the stakeholders in the agricultural sector. A paradigm shift is underway from proprietary and monolithic tools to Internet-based, cloud hosted, open systems that will enable more effective collaboration between stakeholders. This new paradigm includes the technological support of application developers to create specialized services that will seamlessly interoperate, thus creating a sophisticated and customisable working environment for the end users. We present the implementation of an open architecture that instantiates such an approach, based on a set of domain independent software tools called "generic enablers" that have been developed in the context of the FI-WARE project. The implementation is used to validate a number of innovative concepts for the agricultural sector such as the notion of a services' market place and the system's adaptation to network failures. During the design and implementation phase, the system has been evaluated by end users, offering us valuable feedback. The results of the evaluation process validate the acceptance of such a system and the need of farmers to have access to sophisticated services at affordable prices. A summary of this evaluation process is also presented in this paper.
KW - farm management system
KW - future Internet
KW - generic enablers
KW - services' marketplace
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84890600378&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.compag.2013.11.014
DO - 10.1016/j.compag.2013.11.014
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84890600378
SN - 0168-1699
VL - 100
SP - 168
EP - 179
JO - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
JF - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
ER -