AgGateway and how it fits into the standards landscape

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

    First pass at my section, has a couple open questions/comments and I didn't know as much about OAGi and WC3 so need a little guidance on how to work them in. Not entirely sure if I am on target for what I was suppose to have in this part so open to fully rewriting if needed.

Also I was trying to create a new picture for the core documents or to show how all this stuff is connected. Not happy with results so far but wanted to share what I came up with to hopefully spark a better idea.

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...

Joe Tevis I started writing this in my big picture section and realized it was probably redundant so pulled it out but thought you might want the picture

Jim Wilson - OAGi interactions?