Integration, aggregation and exchange of farming device data: A high level perspective

Most of the farming devices produce massive amounts of data. In most of the cases, it is necessary to store this data at a central location for further processing. Due to the huge volumes of data, strategies for data aggregation procedures are very important, in order to avoid oversized data sets. There is also an increasing need to share or exchange data with other stack holders in the farming business based on farming standards. This paper presents an integrated, effective, easy-to-use and flexible solution, which enables the farmers to integrate data from several farming devices, aggregate data at different granularity levels and exchange data bidirectionally with other farming systems. The paper also describes the implementation strategy based on a case study using farming standards and open source technologies.