Management of farms and crops data in the cloud

Technical University of Crete, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Diploma ThesisSummarization: Recent technological advances in cloud computing paved the way for developing and offering advanced services for remote monitoring in the agricultural sector. In this thesis, we developed a cloud-based Farm Management Information System, referred as CloudFarm. CloudFarm offers a variety of services that helps farmers to manage and keep control of their farms and crops, by supporting all the basic agricultural activities according to set of Good Agricultural Practices. CloudFarm is accessible to farmers, as a mobile application running on a smart-phone or tablet that connects with the cloud, and as a Web application running in the cloud. The “on the go” system means that farmers can manage and capture scheduled or performed activities directly from fields, while using a mobile application. Mobile application is synchronized with information stored permanently in the cloud so that farmers can have always access to up-date information. Furthermore, CloudFarm offers a Web application where farmers can monitor their data and certified advisors can monitor the farmers’ agricultural activities and advise them about their farm status and best planning of farm and crops works