WALLeSMART: Cloud Platform for Smart Farming

Today, agricultural practices are supported by bio-informatics and emerging technologies such as remote sensing, cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), which leads to the concept of “Smart Farming”. Smart farming is a cycle of intelligent detection and monitoring, analysis and planning, as well as control of agricultural operations using a cloud-based event management system. In this paper, we propose WALLeSMART, a cloud-based framework built to capitalize the efforts invested in building smart farming management systems, applied to the Wallonia region of Belgium. The framework proposes an architecture to address the challenges of acquisition, processing, and visualization of massive amounts of data, in both batch and real-time basis. An initial prototype has been developed and tested with various farms and shows prominent results.