Smart Farm Based on Six-Domain Model

Abstract

Architecture design is the top-level design of the Internet of Things (IoT). Based on the conceptual model of IoT, its reference architecture based on six-domain model is defined in international standards. It is necessary to establish the system architecture for smart farm suitable for international standards. Through the comprehensive analysis of the agricultural production and management process and the in-depth study of the international standards for the IoT reference architecture, the entity integration of user domain, physical entity domain, sensing & controlling domain, application & service domain, operations & management domain and resource access & interchange domain of the smart farm are determined. The six-domain model reference architecture of smart farm is proposed. There are advantages of compatibility, flexibility and scalability, etc. As an example, it is applied in the system architecture design for the open field vegetable smart planting subsystem. It can provide effective, reliable and scalable framework design guidance for each subsystem of smart farm. It is conducive to the formation of a collaborative ecosystem of smart farm, so as to realize its large-scale applications.