Our Services – Reusable Software Components, are designed to be used in the development and deployment of Agricultural Digital Solutions (ADSs),
aiming to increase their uptake by the small and medium farms. These services play a vital role in supporting and promoting our
Sustainable Innovation Pilots (SIPs), addressing real-world on-farm challenges, and fostering sustainable agricultural practices.
To ensure maximum impact and usability, the services are being tested, validated, and refined through our SIPs.
Note: This versions are not the final versions and will be updated iteratively based on insights gathered during the test period of pilots.
Services Document: Farmtopia Reusable Software Components – Guidelines
The “Farmtopia Digital Field Book” addresses the data capture and reporting needs of small farms, including the manual recording of: farmers’ activities, farmers observations , parcels, properties, and assets. The Farmtopia Digital Field Book aims to ensure data interoperability through the use of standardised data models, access control, and APIs. Data collected with the Fieldbook is accessible and available for reuse through the APIs. The retrieved data objects are modelled following standardised (when available) semantics formulated in JSON-LD.
The “Farmtopia Data Exchange Service” provides the core mechanisms for facilitating the sharing of agricultural data among stakeholders. The “Farmtopia Data Exchange Service” provides a “Data Sources Directory service” which should be accessible as a cloud-based service where data providers can register data sources and data consumers can search and select for use the data sources.
The “Data Integration Service” supports the subscription to external data services and the ingestion and integration of this data. There are existing but under-exploited data sources and data products relevant to the farming sector that are open for use or available under low-cost subscription schemes. Currently integrates with: a) weather monitoring and forecast services e.g., OpenWeatherMaps and OpenMeteo API, b) Earth Observation – Analysis Ready Data, including from Sentinel-Hub API, c) Pest infestation prediction services from H2020 IPM Decisions.
The Farmtopia ADS Sharing Platform is a digital matchmaking solution designed to increase information availability regarding ADSs and enhance collaboration among farmers by facilitating the sharing of agricultural equipment and digital solutions. Developed under Task 1.3 of the Farmtopia project, the platform enables farmers to offer and request equipment and software tools, promoting a cost-effective and cooperative approach to digital agriculture, thereby facilitating access to digital solutions for smallholders.
Built on the Digital Field book & Data Exchange modules, this tool enables the aggregation of applied inputs (e.g., fertilizers) to assess farm/regional performance and track agricultural & environmental metrics in line with new CAP indicator requirements.
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A Decision Support System (DSS), built using Digital Fieldbook, Data Integration, and Data Exchange modules, which provides farmers with timely alerts such as potential pest infestations or crop damage due to extreme weather – based on real-time observations from nearby farms, weather forecasts, and data analytics.