User-Centered Design of Agriculture Automation Systems Using Internet of Things Paradigm

• Published in: Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence Vol. 10586; pp. 56 - 66
• Main Authors: Ferrández-Pastor, Francisco-Javier, García-Chamizo, Juan-Manuel, Nieto Hidalgo, Mario, Mora-Martínez, José
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2017; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Interactive user interfaces; Internet of Things; Model-driven design; Precision Agriculture; User-centered design
• ISBN: 3319675842; 9783319675848
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67585-5_7

During the past decades, new advances in agriculture automation systems have gained more and more importance and capabilities. In parallel, Internet of Things represents the pervasive presence of a variety of objects (devices, sensors, actuators, mobile phones), which are able to interact with each other, cooperate and create new interfaces (human-machine and machine-machine), to reach common goals. Automation on agriculture systems, or precision agriculture, uses control and communication paradigms to develop new systems: devices, sensors and actuators are interoperable. This technologies (software and hardware) improves the capacity of agricultural installations and agronomists take advantage of new services. This paper presents a research on user-centered design integrated with Internet of Things paradigm. A model-driven development of interactive interfaces that can be adapted and modified by the agronomists in their own agriculturals production is proposed. Additionally, control rules and human-computer interfaces are co-designed by agronomist to adapt the needs of each type of crop and other local and temporal condition (climate, water, energy, nutrients, soil).