Design of Big Data-based Greenhouse Environment Data Consulting System for Improving Crop Quality
Seongjin Kim, Hyun Yoe · Advanced science and technology letters · 2015
Recently, as for agricultural technologies in South Korea, these researches on smart greenhouses and smart farms with ICT technology applied are being carried out in pursuit of improvements in both productivity and quality of crops. Such ICT technology is now actually being applied to real farming, and that builds up so many pieces of environmental data information. By utilizing all that information accumulated for long, this paper first collects environmental data information on a region basis to cultivate crops of the best quality and then by practicing the gathered information to actual farming, the study offers a greenhouse environmental data consulting system that would help the most optimized growth of crops. The system to be proposed is designed to have an environment sensor to gather data, an embedded server and HDFS to store and process data as well as a Web application to provide greenhouse control and service. In terms of the farming industry in South Korea, they are entering a stage of graying as a whole which is consequently causing a work shortage in every part of the industry. Farmers earn less than before, and that is bringing about financial problems. If such problems are not properly handled constantly, when any unexpected tragedies occur such as natural disasters by external surroundings, the lack of agricultural technologies will only aggravate harm and damage. That is why this paper believes that diverse areas of the farming industry such as the economy, the technology and others should find ways to enhance the quality of life and that the industry must resolve the financial issues by increasing productivity via reductions in maintenance costs and others. In addition, now, the conclusion of the FTA is facilitating the globalization of the distribution industry, and that is what encourages this paper to argue even more strongly for the necessity of strategies for development and advances in agricultural technologies targeting the improvement in competitiveness of the farming industry in South Korea. Regarding the Netherlands, one of the advanced countries in the field of agricultural business, their territory may be small in size and yet, they are recognized