Smart Rural Areas Data Infrastructure (SRADI) – an information logistics framework for digital agriculture based on open standards

Abstract

Agricultural research is embedded in a complex system of dynamically changing and interacting elements and subsystems. This includes stakeholders and data from various disciplines and institutions, and consequently a highly distributed nature of data resources. To solve the challenges coming along within this ecosystem, we introduce an interdisciplinary cooperation and information logistics framework named ”Smart Rural Area Data Infrastructure” (SRADI) for research topics in agricultural sciences. This framework interconnects resources between different stakeholders and platforms, while supplying a basis for integrating both pre-existing, historical and real-time information for physical things. By this, SRADI provides both a quantitative and qualitative enhancement of data foundations for agricultural research.