Development of Monitoring Cloud Computing Platform for Agriculture

Our objective is to propose an architecturally generic Cloud-based system to accommodate multiple scenarios where farms need to be remotely monitored and recorded data must be analyzed by a computing system and become available to be visualized by specialists or by the farmers themselves. The consid

Project Title

Development of Monitoring Cloud Computing Platform for Agriculture

Project Area of Specialization

Cloud Infrastructure,

Project Summary

Our objective is to propose an architecturally generic Cloud-based system to accommodate multiple scenarios where farms need to be remotely monitored and recorded data must be analyzed by a computing system and become available to be visualized by specialists or by the farmers themselves. The consideration of this project is to create a cloud computing infrastructure which will connect different agriculture service providers to a central data store. The services may be in the form of information/responses to different queries raised by the farmers, automatic suggestions to farmers for time to time to improve their farming skills, provide specific slots in lands where the problem exists in visual formats, automatically update the farmers that which crop is suitable in their area based on various factors, provide special features to farmers where they can also interact with local and world leading agriculturists, update the farmers as pre disaster recovery and provide general and specific information about international markets relating to their crops. The data collected by the concerned providers will be sent to the data store via underlying computerized system, where it will be accessible to all connected farmer support centers. 

Project Objectives

• To identify real opportunity for the education and research community to build on its philosophy of collaboration and pool its experience and requirements for computing and data preserving facilities by utilizing the cloud computing.
• To identify an important area where the higher education sector can build on the successful track record of collaboration is in exploiting cloud computing concepts to reduce costs, improve the flexibility of provision, and reduce the carbon footprint of ICT. 
• To implement/share pool of ideas and expertise, collaborating to deliver the vision of a cloud of processing resources.

Project Implementation Method

The overall functionality of the monitoring and analysis system involves the following steps:

1. Farms are equipped with a wireless sensor attached to specific points and a mobile device that is capable of communicating to the Internet;

2. The wireless sensor module collects farm’s data and forwards it the mobile device via Bluetooth without user intervention;

3. A client software in the mobile device transmits the data to the  analysis Web Service, which is hosted by a Cloud computing-based software stack. This communication can happen with a home wireless gateway or directly via the mobile’s data connectivity (e.g. mobile 3G network);

4. The analysis software carries out numerous computations over the received data taking the reference from the existing demographic data, and the farm’s historic data. Computations concern comparison, classification, and systematic diagnosis of farm lines, which can be time-consuming when done for long time periods for large number of farmers;

5. The software then appends the latest results to the historic record maintained in private and secure Cloud-based storage, so that authenticated users can access it anytime from anywhere. Agriculturists will later interpret the features extracted from the data and decision is made accordingly.

6. The results in form of advice are disseminated to the farmer’s mobile device and/or monitor,

7. The monitoring and computing processes are repeated according to user’s preference, which may be hourly or daily over a long period of time.

Benefits of the Project

• The benefit of this new model is that it creates enormous economies of scale.
• To substantially lowering the cost of IT and it eliminates the technical complexities and the long deployment cycles of planning, installing, maintaining, and upgrading IT systems.
• As with consumers and businesses, cloud computing holds tremendous promise for development organizations, including agencies and NGOs in developing countries.
• To enables development organizations to greatly expand their capabilities by deploying sophisticated information technology solutions without the cost and complexities of purchasing and setting up IT systems.
• To enable companies using Web-based services to manage their business operations, development organizations have the opportunity to improve the efficiency of their internal operations using software solutions offered as a service over the Internet.
• To using pre-built software over the Internet, development agencies and NGOs can use online services to build customized Web-based software programs for their own specialized needs – ranging from fund-raising and grant management to volunteer programs and project management.
• Beyond improving internal operations, cloud computing can be employed to promote development initiatives and achieve higher levels of social and economic progress in disadvantaged communities.
• To develop microfinance institutions to utilize easy-to-deploy IT solutions that create efficiencies and lend transparency to their financial management and performance.

Given its turnkey nature, cloud computing can make a significant difference in mobilizing resources in emergencies.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Information/Infrastructure Model Development

(Sensor Deployment/Mobile)

 

 

 

 

Service Model Development

(Data Collection)

 

 

 

Process Model Development

(Data Transmission to Web)

 

 

 

Governance Model Development

(Analysis, Computations & Diagnostic)

 

Creating Test-bed and Testing Cloud

(Advice dissemination to Mobile & Historic Data)

 

 

 

Final Deliverable of the Project

HW/SW integrated system

Type of Industry

Agriculture

Technologies

Cloud Infrastructure

Sustainable Development Goals

Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well-Being for People, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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