Abstract
Since ancient times, agriculture has been one of the most important resources of national development. At a national level, clean energy is a strategic objective of Romania, in accordance with the EC directive 2016/30.11.2016 (“Clean Energy for All”). At a European level, the European Commission published in January 2019 the “Towards a Sustainable Europe by 2030” strategy, highlighting the strategic importance of the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technologies. In this context, the synergy between the energy management of a hybrid energy system and blockchain technology, applied to farmers’ associations, represents a priority research direction in the field of information and communication technology, blockchain, and security. This paper presents the integration of the management of the energy produced by photovoltaic panels owned by farmers’ association, to support the variable energy demand (necessary for water pumps, charging stations of the electric agricultural machines, the animal farms, and the auxiliary equipment) based on the IoT, DLT, blockchain technologies and smart contracts applied to farmers associations registered as users of the SmartFarm platform.
Highlights
Worldwide, since ancient times, agriculture and its sub-sectors have represented one of the most important resources of national development.The Agency for Financing Rural Investments has granted 32 financing contracts worth 22.7 million euros to farmers’ associations in Romania, under several sub-measures within the National DevelopmentProgram 2014–2020 (PNDR 2020).The new “Energy Strategy of Romania for the Period 2014–2030, with an Outlook to 2050” has a strategic objective the Clean Energy Package, in accordance with the EC directive 2016/30.11.2016(“Clean Energy for All”)
The results show that 60% of the papers are on the food supply chain
The proposed energy management platform is a solution that responds to the actual needs of the agricultural sector in terms of climate change, renewable energy, and production capacities
Summary
Since ancient times, agriculture and its sub-sectors have represented one of the most important resources of national development.The Agency for Financing Rural Investments has granted 32 financing contracts worth 22.7 million euros to farmers’ associations in Romania, under several sub-measures within the National DevelopmentProgram 2014–2020 (PNDR 2020).The new “Energy Strategy of Romania for the Period 2014–2030, with an Outlook to 2050” has a strategic objective the Clean Energy Package, in accordance with the EC directive 2016/30.11.2016(“Clean Energy for All”). Since ancient times, agriculture and its sub-sectors have represented one of the most important resources of national development. The Agency for Financing Rural Investments has granted 32 financing contracts worth 22.7 million euros to farmers’ associations in Romania, under several sub-measures within the National Development. The new “Energy Strategy of Romania for the Period 2014–2030, with an Outlook to 2050” has a strategic objective the Clean Energy Package, in accordance with the EC directive 2016/30.11.2016. Mathematics 2020, 8, 2182; doi:10.3390/math8122182 www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics (IoT), or blockchain [1]. In this context, the synergy between the energy management of a hybrid energy system and blockchain technology, applied to farmers’ associations, represents a priority research direction in the field of information and communication technology, blockchain, and security
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