Abstract:
Contemporary farming requires increasing amounts of data exchange among a myriad hardware and software products. Growers and other stakeholders need these products to interoperate, but implementation of data exchange standards has been inconsistent across the industry, especially among software companies.
AgGateway is an industry consortium dedicated to promoting the implementation of standards in digital agriculture. It provides a collaborative environment where the industry can discuss interoperability pain points, identify standards that can address those pain points, and then engage the corresponding standards organizations to collaborate on implementation and/or enhancements.
This paper reviews a set of standards relevant to agricultural field operations and supply chain data exchange, created by organizations such as AEF, AgXML, ASABE, ISO, OAGI, and W3C. It then describes the relevance of these standards to AgGateway’s interoperability projects, such as ADAPT, CART, PAIL, PICS, and SPADE, which cover a wide range of processes. The discussed processes involve field operations, such as planting, crop nutrition, crop protection, irrigation, harvest, and post-harvest; and also supply-chain operations pertaining to crop inputs, such as seed, crop protection and fertilizers.
Mega presentation for reference/reuse
Paper authors/focus areas (as best as I remember the discussion)
Shannon Haringx (Unlicensed) - Intro
Ben Craker (Unlicensed) - ADAPT bringing everything together & Telematics
R. Andres Ferreyra (Unlicensed) - PAIL stuff?
Todd Howatt - ASABE interactions
Joe Tevis - AEF/ISO11783 interactions
There are still some TBD to complete but here is a draft...
Jim Wilson - OAGi interactions?