A New IoT-Based Platform for Greenhouse Crop Production

Abstract

The aim of this article is to contribute to this digitalization of the agricultural sector, where the implementation of a cloud-based solution for greenhouse crop production is presented. The proposed approach provides different services for economical and environmental benefits of the agricultural activity, and improving the system efficiency by providing suggestions for the use of water, pesticides, fertigation, or energy. In this sense, historical and real-time data are available for each of the greenhouses registered in the platform. An open model to allow adding new devices spread over the world has been defined. Weather forecast options are also offered as a service for a 48-h period. Also, a novel service called GMaaS is integrated into the platform, where greenhouse models are available to estimate indoor climate, crop production, and irrigation values. Another advantage is that all these services are available as a REST application programming interface (API) for different user needs. In fact, the proposed platform provides a graphical Web-based application that is built over this REST API.