CeBIT 2008: agro.Connect rlp creates an IT network for the agricultural domain
At this year’s CeBIT - the world's largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecom solutions -, Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Experimentelles Software Engineering (IESE) and the University of Applied Sciences Bingen will jointly present state-of-the-art developments for simplifying business workflows in agriculture. The solution presented enables a farmer to create contract documents and transmit them to service providers and contract partners using the Internet. The agro.Connect rlp could cut administrative costs and time spent on bureaucratic tasks in agriculture.
Using agro.Connect rlp, it will be possible to include geographical data (aerial photographs, location and boundaries of cultivated areas) into agricultural documentation, administration, and business workflows, and exchange them. The crucial issue is the flexible usage of data that has been recorded once, and the avoidance of unnecessary multiple entries. To achieve this goal, the new technology dynamically combines geodata from the state government with user data from farm administration programs (schematic, click to enlarge).
The architecture is based on the principle of data sovereignty: Farm data worth protecting remain under the farmer’s control – a crucial prerequisite for the acceptance of this technology throughout the domain. agro.Connect rlp is being built on the basis of open standards (including XForms, ebXML, UBL, OGC, agroXML) and a service-oriented architecture (SOA); a prototype is being developed and a pilot project is taking place. First practical experiences have already been made; several software developing companies have already expressed their interest in agro.Connect rlp:
energy :: sustainability :: biomass :: bioenergy :: biofuels :: agriculture :: administration :: IT :: e-business :: geodata :: Germany ::
The project agro.Connect rlp is being carried out by Fraunhofer IESE and the Competence Center for Innovative Information Systems of the University of Applied Sciences Bingen together with the Service Center Rural Region Rheinhessen-Nahe-Hunsrück. It is funded by the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Transportation, Agriculture and Viniculture of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Other states will also be able to benefit from the developments initiated by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Fraunhofer IESE is one of the worldwide leading research institutes in the area of software and systems development. A major portion of the products offered by its collaboration partners is defined by software. These products range from automotive and transportation systems to telecommunication and telematics equipment, from information systems and medical devices to software systems for the public sector.
Under the leadership of Prof. Dieter Rombach and Prof. Peter Liggesmeyer, the past decade has seen Fraunhofer IESE making major contributions to strengthening the emerging IT location Kaiserslautern. In the Fraunhofer Information and Communication Technology Group, it is cooperating with other Fraunhofer institutes on developing trend-setting key technologies for the future.
Fraunhofer IESE is one of 56 institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Europe's leading fundamental science and research organisation.
References:
AlphaGalileo: CeBIT 2008:agro.Connect rlp Creates a Network for the Agricultural Domain - February 20, 2008.
agro.Connect rlp website.
CeBIT 2008.
Using agro.Connect rlp, it will be possible to include geographical data (aerial photographs, location and boundaries of cultivated areas) into agricultural documentation, administration, and business workflows, and exchange them. The crucial issue is the flexible usage of data that has been recorded once, and the avoidance of unnecessary multiple entries. To achieve this goal, the new technology dynamically combines geodata from the state government with user data from farm administration programs (schematic, click to enlarge).
The architecture is based on the principle of data sovereignty: Farm data worth protecting remain under the farmer’s control – a crucial prerequisite for the acceptance of this technology throughout the domain. agro.Connect rlp is being built on the basis of open standards (including XForms, ebXML, UBL, OGC, agroXML) and a service-oriented architecture (SOA); a prototype is being developed and a pilot project is taking place. First practical experiences have already been made; several software developing companies have already expressed their interest in agro.Connect rlp:
energy :: sustainability :: biomass :: bioenergy :: biofuels :: agriculture :: administration :: IT :: e-business :: geodata :: Germany ::
The project agro.Connect rlp is being carried out by Fraunhofer IESE and the Competence Center for Innovative Information Systems of the University of Applied Sciences Bingen together with the Service Center Rural Region Rheinhessen-Nahe-Hunsrück. It is funded by the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Transportation, Agriculture and Viniculture of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Other states will also be able to benefit from the developments initiated by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Fraunhofer IESE is one of the worldwide leading research institutes in the area of software and systems development. A major portion of the products offered by its collaboration partners is defined by software. These products range from automotive and transportation systems to telecommunication and telematics equipment, from information systems and medical devices to software systems for the public sector.
Under the leadership of Prof. Dieter Rombach and Prof. Peter Liggesmeyer, the past decade has seen Fraunhofer IESE making major contributions to strengthening the emerging IT location Kaiserslautern. In the Fraunhofer Information and Communication Technology Group, it is cooperating with other Fraunhofer institutes on developing trend-setting key technologies for the future.
Fraunhofer IESE is one of 56 institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Europe's leading fundamental science and research organisation.
References:
AlphaGalileo: CeBIT 2008:agro.Connect rlp Creates a Network for the Agricultural Domain - February 20, 2008.
agro.Connect rlp website.
CeBIT 2008.
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