User-Centered Design of Agriculture Automation Systems Using Internet of Things Paradigm

摘要

During the past decades, new advances in agriculture automation systems have gained more and more importance and capabilities. In parallel, Internet of Things represents the pervasive presence of a variety of objects (devices, sensors, actuators, mobile phones), which are able to interact with each other, cooperate and create new interfaces (human-machine and machine-machine), to reach common goals. Automation on agriculture systems, or precision agriculture, uses control and communication paradigms to develop new systems: devices, sensors and actuators are interoperable. This technologies (software and hardware) improves the capacity of agricultural installations and agronomists take advantage of new services. This paper presents a research on user-centered design integrated with Internet of Things paradigm. A model-driven development of interactive interfaces that can be adapted and modified by the agronomists in their own agriculturals production is proposed. Additionally, control rules and human-computer interfaces are co-designed by agronomist to adapt the needs of each type of crop and other local and temporal condition (climate, water, energy, nutrients, soil).