Farming the Web of Things

Author

Taylor, Kerry ; Griffith, Colin ; Lefort, Laurent ; Gaire, Raj ; Compton, Michael ; Wark, Tim ; Lamb, D. ; Falzon, Greg ; Trotter, Mark

Author_Institution

CSIRO, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Volume

28

Issue

6

fYear

2013

fDate

Nov.-Dec. 2013

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

19

Abstract

Here, a Web of Things case study for agriculture focuses on an experimental smart farm that uses a range of environmental sensors and livestock monitoring technologies. An ontology-enabled architecture that permits personal alert specification was applied on the farm and the results analyzed; the observations are published as a linked data cube, which supports longer-term analysis and data sharing from a local to national scale. This case study highlights the business opportunities for such technology for agriculture in the context of a national broadband rollout.

Keywords

Internet of Things; agriculture; ontologies (artificial intelligence); Web of things; agriculture; business opportunities; environmental sensors; experimental smart farm; linked data cube; livestock monitoring technologies; national broadband rollout; ontology-enabled architecture; personal alert specification; Agriculture; Australia; Intelligent sensors; Internet of things; Meteorology; Temperature measurement; decision support; intelligent Web services and Semantic Web; new business models; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1541-1672

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIS.2013.102

Filename

6617630