RT Journal Article T1 Aggregate Farming in the Cloud: The AFarCloud ECSEL project: The AFarCloud ECSEL project A1 Castillejo, Pedro A1 Johansen, Gorm A1 Cürüklü, Baran A1 Bilbao-Arechabala, Sonia A1 Fresco, Roberto A1 Martinez-Rodriguez, Belen A1 Pomante, Luigi A1 Rusu, Cristina A1 Martínez-Ortega, José-Fernán A1 Centofanti, Carlo A1 Hakojärvi, Mikko A1 Santic, Marco A1 Häggman, Johanna AB Farming is facing many economic challenges in terms of productivity and cost-effectiveness. Labor shortage partly due to depopulation of rural areas, especially in Europe, is another challenge. Domain specific problems such as accurate monitoring of soil and crop properties and animal health are key factors for minimizing economical risks, and not risking human health. The ECSEL AFarCloud (Aggregate Farming in the Cloud) project will provide a distributed platform for autonomous farming that will allow the integration and cooperation of agriculture Cyber Physical Systems in real-time in order to increase efficiency, productivity, animal health, food quality and reduce farm labor costs. Moreover, such a platform can be integrated with farm management software to support monitoring and decision-making solutions based on big data and real-time data mining techniques. SN 0141-9331 YR 2020 FD 2020-10 LA eng NO Castillejo , P , Johansen , G , Cürüklü , B , Bilbao-Arechabala , S , Fresco , R , Martinez-Rodriguez , B , Pomante , L , Rusu , C , Martínez-Ortega , J-F , Centofanti , C , Hakojärvi , M , Santic , M & Häggman , J 2020 , ' Aggregate Farming in the Cloud: The AFarCloud ECSEL project : The AFarCloud ECSEL project ' , Microprocessors and Microsystems , vol. 78 , 103218 , pp. 103218 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpro.2020.103218 NO Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) DS TECNALIA Publications RD 3 jul 2024