Ibarra-Cabrera Manuel J, Estrada Torres Irwin, Aquino Cruz Mario, Rentería Ayquipa Ronald A, Ochoa Sergio F, Ochoa Juan Manuel
Informatics and Systems Academic Department, Universidad Nacional Micaela Bastidas de Apurímac, Abancay 03001, Peru.
Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8370456, Chile.
Sensors (Basel). 2024 Nov 28;24(23):7620. doi: 10.3390/s24237620.
When urban agriculture is addressed at a family scale, known as urban gardening, it is assumed as a non-commercial activity where some family members voluntarily take care of the plantation during their free time. If technology is going to be used to support such a process, then the solutions should consider the particularities of these gardeners (e.g., life dynamics and culture) to make them adoptable. The literature reports several urban agriculture experiences in Western countries and Southeast Asia; however, this activity has been poorly explored in South American countries, particularly at a family scale and considering the culture and the affordability of the solutions. This article presents an experience report of urban gardening in Peru, where a prototype of an IoT system and a mobile application were conceived, implemented, and used to support the gardening of vegetables at a family scale, considering the cultural aspects of the gardeners. This experience obtained positive results in terms of tomato production, mainly showing the system's capability to self-adapt its behavior to consider the cultivation conditions of these urban gardeners. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first IoT system that can be iteratively adjust its behavior to improve the chances of being adopted by a particular end-user population (i.e., gardeners).
当城市农业以家庭规模开展时，即所谓的城市园艺，它被视为一种非商业活动，一些家庭成员在空闲时间自愿照料种植园。如果要利用技术来支持这一过程，那么解决方案应考虑这些园艺者的特殊性（如生活动态和文化），以便使其能够被采用。文献报道了西方国家和东南亚的一些城市农业经验；然而，在南美国家，这项活动尚未得到充分探索，特别是在家庭规模以及考虑文化和解决方案的可承受性方面。本文介绍了秘鲁城市园艺的经验报告，其中构思、实施并使用了一个物联网系统原型和一个移动应用程序，以支持家庭规模的蔬菜园艺，并考虑了园艺者的文化方面。该经验在番茄生产方面取得了积极成果，主要展示了系统自我调整行为以考虑这些城市园艺者种植条件的能力。据我们所知，这是第一个能够迭代调整其行为以提高被特定终端用户群体（即园艺者）采用几率的物联网系统。
