Development of monitoring system for smart farming using Progressive Web App

Abstract

Indonesia is one of countries well-known as the biggest palm oil producers in the world. In 2015, this country succeeded to produce 32.5 million tons of palm oil, and used 26.4 million of it to export to other countries. The quality of Indonesia's palm oil production has become the reason why Indonesia becomes the famous exporter in a global market. For this reason, many Indonesian palm oil companies are trying to improve their quality through smart farming. One of the ways to improve is by using technology such as Internet of Things (IoT). In order to have the actual and real-time condition of the land, using the IoT concept by connecting some sensors. A previous research has accomplished to create some Application Programming Interfaces (API), which can be used to support the use of technology. However, these APIs have not been integrated to a User Interface (UI), as it can only be used by developers or programmers. These APIs have not been able to be used as a monitoring information system for palm oil plantation, which can be understood by the employees. Based on those problems, this research attempts to develop a monitoring information system, which will be integrated with the APIs from the previous research by using the Progressive Web App (PWA) approach. So, this monitoring information system can be accessed by the employees, either by using smartphone or by using desktop. Even, it can work similar with a native application.