Presentation by Juanjo Hierro CTO, FIWARE Foundation FIWARE Global Summit 21-22 May 2019 - Genoa, Italy

1. FIWARE: Open approach for integration of Smart Agrifood
solutions for farmers
Juanjo Hierro
FIWARE Foundation CTO
juanjose.hierro@fiware.org, @JuanjoHierro
www.slideshare.net/JuanjoHierro

2. FIWARE is already being used to power Smart Agrifood solutions
§ Context Information
Management layer based using
FIWARE Context Broker
technology
§ Ability to integrate third IoT
platforms or use FIWARE IoT
agents developed as part of the
IDAS NGSI Agent Framework
§ Integration of FIWARE Context
Broker technology with most
popular Apache processing
engines (Spark, Flink, Hadoop)
§ Advanced web mashup and
Business Intelligent components
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3. § Goal: Free livestock monitoring
§ Target customers: livestock farms
§ Main features:
• Monitor free livestock using IoT
collars weared by each animal
• Position, activity, inventory,
anomalies
• Ecosystem with veterinarians,
livestock markets, etc.
• Save money by early detection of
sick animals
• SIGFox / LORA / 3G
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4. § Goal: Remote monitoring
and optimized
replenishment of silos in
farms
§ Target customers: farms
and feed suppliers
§ Main features:
• patented 3D scanning
• easy installation (5 mins)
• no batteries (solar panel)
• collaborative platform for
farmers and feed suppliers
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5. FIWARE: supporting a system of systems architecture
§ Organizations (cities, farm, factories, hospitals, etc)
facing transformation into Smart organizations have to
cope with the integration of multiple smart vertical
solutions coming from multiple parties
§ There is a need to integrate data to build a holistic
picture of what is going on in right-time (context data)
on top of which smart management systems can be
developed at overall organization-level
§ A Reference Architecture for such organizations will
look like a “System of Systems”
§ Key properties in “System of Systems” architectures:
• Replaceability (systems can be replaced)
• Extensibility (new systems can be added easily)
• Loose coupling (systems can evolve independently)
• Low intrusiveness (systems do not need to change)
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6. Smart Farm Management Reference Architecture
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7. Digitising Farms in a region following open standards
§ Giving farmer the option to choose, avoiding risk to get locked into
particular vendors:
• What farm management system to adopt
• What farm vertical solutions to integrate from an open marketplace
§ Approach: bring farmers a service where their critical/master data
is hosted and to which systems can connect to:
• Farm management systems to exploit and manage data
• Farm vertical solutions to provide relevant management data
§ This service could bring support to data publication and
monetization (again a way to exercise sovereignty on data)
§ In the future, this service can be extended to bring support to
registration of certain updates on a blockchain and this way
support certification of certain processes
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8. Smart Farm Management Reference Architecture
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9. Thank you!
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