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- KonferenzbeitragMonitoring Dashboard for Cloud Sustainable Greenhouses(Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Environmental Informatics - Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management, 2014) Ferreira, Luís; Lopes, Nuno; Putnik, Goran; Lopes, Arménio; Cunha, ManuelaThe growing evidence of major environmental changes promotes sensitivity to the causes that give rise to them. The companies, namely the ones focused on agriculture production in Greenhouses, are concerned with their production efficiency and business success and the persons are concerned with their possible contribution on those (abnormal) environmental events and, indirectly, with their effects on their own health. Greenhouse production involves several and distinct resources or services, from time and persons to multiple type of equipment. If most of the production knowledge lies on human experience, the capacity to decide quickly against real situations comes from the availability of real and useful information, timely. Accepting Chang [1] perspective that Cloud Computing “provides scalable and inexpensive ondemand computing infrastructures with good QoS… as well as new business opportunities for service-oriented models”, it outlooks that Greenhouse Production under a cloud architecture supporting information systems control, has the potential to be sustainable. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to: a) demonstrate that existent technological initiatives are not sufficient for efficient control of sustainable Greenhouses; b) propose an ICT platform based on open source technology composed by: i) a servo unit, using embedded technology, that allow the integration of several sources of data (raw data, sensors, cameras, drones, etc.) existents in the Greenhouses; ii) a dashboard to monitor and control remotely required Greenhouse production variables and equipment; iii) an API mainly supported by Restful services, for future integration of new devices or systems and iv) a Decision Support System to help the Greenhouse management, remotely. c) propose a cloud architecture to support the integrated information system, to store and help processing the huge amount of data, efficiently, towards the sustainability of the Greenhouse; d) evidence that the use of communication channels is essential for effective management and represent the necessary add-on to ICT;