Fog-to-Cloud computing for farming: low-cost technologies, data exchange, and animal welfare
Coordinated fog-to-cloud computing systems are expected to expedite the evolution of cloud-based smart farming, towards openness and data sharing, while making farming economically sustainable for smaller farms. We demonstrate a fog-to-cloud enabled animal farming system that not only deploys low-co...
| Autores: | , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/178138 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/178138 https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2019.2906837 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Cloud computing Mobile apps Mobile computing Sustainable agriculture Computació en núvol Aplicacions mòbils Informàtica mòbil Agricultura -- Tecnologia Agricultura sostenible mecanitzacio agricola Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Aplicacions de la informàtica |
| Sumario: | Coordinated fog-to-cloud computing systems are expected to expedite the evolution of cloud-based smart farming, towards openness and data sharing, while making farming economically sustainable for smaller farms. We demonstrate a fog-to-cloud enabled animal farming system that not only deploys low-cost technology for data collection and sharing, but also uniquely considers animal welfare and quality-of-life. On an practical example of a multi-master replication of SQL Server databases between Microsoft Azure Cloud and multiple fog nodes on the farm, we show that fog-based systems can help improve performance, scale to higher amounts of database entries, pre-process data with aid of machine learning, while providing reliability of the system in an easy-to-use fashion. Considerations of animal welfare, cloud-based data analysis, fog-enabled farming along with mobile applications are envisioned as common place for future farmers and consumers alike, and are in line with a recent trends connecting animal welfare, human health and the environment. |
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