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Monitoring Dashboard for Cloud Sustainable Greenhouses
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2014
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The 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;