Department of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering, University of Lleida, 25001 Lleida, Spain.
Department of Business Administration, University of Lleida, 25001 Lleida, Spain.
Sensors (Basel). 2021 Sep 4;21(17):5949. doi: 10.3390/s21175949.
With the growing adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology in the agricultural sector, smart devices are becoming more prevalent. The availability of new, timely, and precise data offers a great opportunity to develop advanced analytical models. Therefore, the platform used to deliver new developments to the final user is a key enabler for adopting IoT technology. This work presents a generic design of a software platform based on the cloud and implemented using microservices to facilitate the use of predictive or prescriptive analytics under different IoT scenarios. Several technologies are combined to comply with the essential features-scalability, portability, interoperability, and usability-that the platform must consider to assist decision-making in agricultural 4.0 contexts. The platform is prepared to integrate new sensor devices, perform data operations, integrate several data sources, transfer complex statistical model developments seamlessly, and provide a user-friendly graphical interface. The proposed software architecture is implemented with open-source technologies and validated in a smart farming scenario. The growth of a batch of pigs at the fattening stage is estimated from the data provided by a level sensor installed in the silo that stores the feed from which the animals are fed. With this application, we demonstrate how farmers can monitor the weight distribution and receive alarms when high deviations happen.
随着物联网 (IoT) 技术在农业领域的日益普及,智能设备变得越来越普遍。新的、及时的和精确的数据可用性为开发先进的分析模型提供了巨大的机会。因此,用于向最终用户提供新开发的平台是采用物联网技术的关键推动者。这项工作提出了一个基于云的软件平台的通用设计,并使用微服务来实现,以方便在不同的物联网场景下使用预测或规范分析。结合了多种技术来满足平台必须考虑的基本功能——可扩展性、可移植性、互操作性和可用性,以协助农业 4.0 背景下的决策。该平台已准备好集成新的传感器设备、执行数据操作、集成多个数据源、无缝传输复杂的统计模型开发,并提供用户友好的图形界面。所提出的软件架构是使用开源技术实现的,并在智能农业场景中进行了验证。通过安装在储存饲料的筒仓中的液位传感器提供的数据,估计育肥阶段的一批猪的生长情况。通过这个应用,我们演示了农民如何监测重量分布并在出现高偏差时收到警报。