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Authors:
Dimitra Tsiakou
Lucyna Łękawska-Andrinopoulou
Marios Palazis-Aslanidis
Vassilis Nousis
Georgios Tsimiklis
Maria Krommyda
Angelos Amditis
Evangelia Latsa
Keywords: intelligent management system; platform; dynamic rule engine; urban agriculture; sustainability.
Abstract:
The objective of this work is to improve the management of a vegetable garden through an Intelligent agriculture management system based on IoT, where the activities of a garden are handled through an online monitoring platform. The platform has been developed within the project ‘A circular economy inspired food production system’ (CIRC4FooD) as a part of the intelligent management system for the urban vegetable gardens, with the wider aim to engage the user and to promote and inform about circular economy and sustainable food systems. The CIRC4FooD integrated system consists of a garden equipped with a rainwater harvesting system, composting bin, and intelligent management system, namely the platform and incorporated Internet of Things (IoT) technologies: various sensors for soil and air parameters, rainwater tank and compost. The implementation of a dynamic rule engine consisting of three modules: i) environmental, ii) water tank, and iii) compost, allows the users to get notifications about any actions required or recommended from their side to keep the garden in proper condition, but also to assure environmental benefit (i.e., saving water resources by using harvested water, watering the garden only when the real need arises, use of compost as fertilizer, etc.). In this paper, the preliminary system and platform design are presented, which might be further improved, followed by the next steps that will be scheduled within the CIRC4FooD project to test the platform in real-life conditions and on different scales.
Pages: 20 to 31
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2022. Used with permission.
Publication date: December 31, 2022
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ISSN: 1942-2652