Designing and Prototyping an IoT System for Management and Predictive Maintenance of the Corn Fields at the Ottawa Smart Farm at AREA X.O

A Smart Farm is being setup at the Invest Ottawa AREA X.0 test facility premises with a financial contribution from the City of Ottawa. A local producer has planted corn on a demonstration field as well as on two further fields within the Ottawa smart farm (OSF). OSF enjoys the partnership of several local and global partners ranging from local producers to global agricultural technology and technology enterprises such as FarmersEdge, Trimble, and Microsoft. OSF wants to identify efficient platforms that enable local farmers to monitor the farming parameters of interest in order to optimize costs and support corn-farming decisions. Finally, as there is a flow of (eventually big) data that will be collected into the farming parameters, identified platforms must use a complete data management solution that drives the optimization of the farm costs and decisions.

Faculty Supervisor:

Iluju Kiringa

Student:

Partner:

Invest Ottawa

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Management of companies and enterprises; Professional, scientific and technical services; Transportation and warehousing

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate