Abstract
The implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm on the beef cattle value chain can improve decision-making, reduce quality losses, improve animal welfare, and better fulfill customer demands. However, few frameworks consider the specific aspects of the agri-food value chains. Also, none of the available frameworks meets the requirements of these value chains. This chapter will thoroughly describe this value chain considering its main stages, stakeholders, processes, and the informational flow. In sequence, the requirements and services needed for implementing IoT are described, containing nine main services and 31 sub-services or activities. Then, a domain model based on the IoT-A framework is developed. The model comprises the main users, physical entities and services for the beef cattle domain, and their interaction and information exchange. The main components of this domain model are described, and important topics related to the implementation are discussed. The methodology used and the analysis conducted can be applied to other agricultural value chains. This work sets the ground requirements for the future development of a framework for Smart Beef Cattle Services. These can also be used for developing a more general Smart Livestock Farming framework. Farm management research may benefit from the resulting requirements, using it to build services and architectures for a panorama of further automation and autonomous operations of the farms and agricultural supply chains.
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From a semantic point of view, IoT can be considered as a worldwide network of interconnected objects, uniquely addressed, based on standard communication protocols, and involving a large number of heterogeneous objects in the process. The increase of devices in this network, in which sensors and actuators coexist, imperceptibly in the environment, and information is distributed on different platforms, is creating the IoT [3, 4].
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The IoT-A framework was developed between 2010 and 2013 by the EU. It focuses on multiple domains and provides a high-level abstraction of all components, providing all the necessary information to develop architectural reference models. It has very detailed documentation with several use cases for its different models and components. Some of its components are: domain model, context view, physical-entity view, communication model, information model, functional model, deployment, and operation view. For more detailed information, please refer to: Bauer et al. [7], Preventis et al. (8), Pöhls et al. [9], and Rahimi et al. (10).
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FAO AGROVOC Thesaurus—TaxoBank. http://www.taxobank.org/content/agrovoc-thesaurus
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This work was supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and by the Itaú Unibanco S.A. through the Itaú Scholarship Program, at the Centro de Ciência de Dados (C2D), Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
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Mostaço, G.M., Silva, R.F., Cugnasca, C.E. (2022). Development of a Framework for Implementing ΙoΤ-Α on the Beef Cattle Value Chain. In: Bochtis, D.D., Sørensen, C.G., Fountas, S., Moysiadis, V., Pardalos, P.M. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture—Theme III: Decision. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 184. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84152-2_2
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