Data-Driven and Interoperable Smart Agriculture: An IoT-based Use-Case for Arable Crops

Abstract

The sustainability of the agricultural sector relies on exploiting all technologies available today (and further advancing them), in order to decrease the costs and the environmental impact, maintaining yields at the same time. DEMETER is a Horizon 2020 project that aspires to empower farmers to better exploit their existing operational context and create new business models through smart data sharing in the agricultural sector, in an interoperable, reusable, and safe manner. This paper presents a specific use-case that uses the facilities developed in order to optimize rice and maize irrigation and fertilization management processes. It provides an overview of the project’s objectives and concepts and then describes the various modules of the specific use-case and how they cooperate to establish suitable decision support mechanisms. Finally, it elaborates on how the development of other similar services reusing the individual building blocks, in an interoperable and vendor-neutral manner, is facilitated.