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CIRC4FooD Platform: An Intelligent Management System Supporting Sustainable Urban Agriculture

Authors:
Dimitra Tsiakou
Lucyna Łękawska-Andrinopoulou
Marios Palazis-Aslanidis
Vassilis Nousis
Georgios Tsimiklis
Maria Krommyda
Angelos Amditis
Evangelia Latsa

Keywords: monitoring platform; dynamic rule engine; urban vegetable gardens, sustainability

Abstract:
An online monitoring platform for urban vegetable gardens is described. The platform has been developed within the project ‘A circular economy inspired food production system’ (CIRC4FooD) as a part of 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 constitutes of a garden equipped with rainwater harvesting system, composting bin and intelligent management system, namely the platform and incorporated Internet of Things (IoT) technologies: diverse sensors for soil and air parameters, for rainwater tank and for 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 notification 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 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 next steps that are scheduled within the CIRC4FooD project to test the platform in real life conditions and in different scales.

Pages: 1 to 6

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2022

Publication date: May 22, 2022

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4421

ISBN: 978-1-61208-968-3

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from May 22, 2022 to May 26, 2022