Agriculture in the Era of the Internet of Things: An Information System Architecture for Smart Agriculture

Autor(en):

Strobel, Gero

Name der Veranstaltung:

28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)

Ort:

Marrakesh, Morocco - Virtual

Datum:

15.06.2020

Sprache:

Englisch

Stichworte:

Smart agriculture, Smart farming, Internet of Things, Information system architecture

Abstract

Food has been a fundamental human need since the beginning of time. Agriculture, as the central foundation of global food production, is increasingly coming under pressure from the growing world population. Even today, it ́s no longer possible to guarantee sufficient food security in the long term and 10% of humanity goes to bed hungry every night. Given the expected increase in the world’s population based on today’s figures and an associated more than 70% necessary increase in food sector production, the question arises whether this is feasible using classical methods and approaches. The use of modern information and communication technology alone is certainly not a panacea. Despite all this, technologies, such as the Internet of Things, show great potential for the development of more productive and cost-effective but, above all, more sustainable agriculture. However, developing such a solution requires more than a purely technical point of view. Only by creating a holistic information technology solution that takes not only a technological but also a plant, animal, human and therefore holistic perspective can real progress be made. Against this background, this paper represents the publication of a generic information system architecture based on a systematic literature-driven explorative analysis of the domain.