Advanced services for efficient management of smart farms

Abstract

Lately, the technology has been developed quickly causing the appearance of smart software products in many domains such as agriculture which are designed to ease people’s work. Due to bad weather phenomena and growing demand for agricultural products, have started to appear a lot of greenhouses, where there is a strict control around each parameter, by sensors, contributing to the increase of the production. This paper presents a smart platform which helps farmers to efficiently manage their greenhouses and to interact with other farmers. We present the software architecture and each implemented service. We describe the general implementation details and then we present the data gathering algorithm. This algorithm is one of the most important features of the platform because it deals with sending notifications to users in case of a problem in greenhouses. It also offers data for processing to other services like the statistics service. Performance tests show the necessary time for gathering a large amount of data and for their processing. In addition, we will analyze the time needed to send notifications to users.