FarmTracking® - alerts and Tracking in a Farming Context

Authors

  • Jens Peter Hansen Knowledge Center for Agriculture, Aarhus, Denmark
  • Jens Bligaard Knowledge Center for Agriculture, Aarhus, Denmark
  • Nicolai Fog Hansen Knowledge Center for Agriculture, Aarhus, Denmark
  • Annette Hørning Knowledge Center for Agriculture, Aarhus, Denmark

Abstract

FarmTracking® aims to provide the farmer with a unique opportunity for receiving practiceaimedinformation and decision support delivered at the right place at the right time.FarmTracking is a concept and a system that utilizes the capabilities of the smartphone incombination with central databases and GIS based to provide the farmer with context specificnotifications and alerts. A generic framework able to fulfill a number of requirements has beendeveloped, and this framework has shown its value through working prototypes for handlinglogbook for manure storage tanks and for retrieving field specific information.

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World Conference on Computers in Agriculture, San Jose, Costa Rica, 2014