FarmTracking® - alerts and Tracking in a Farming Context

Abstract

FarmTracking® aims to provide the farmer with a unique opportunity for receiving practiceaimedinformation and decision support delivered at the right place at the right time.FarmTracking is a concept and a system that utilizes the capabilities of the smartphone incombination with central databases and GIS based to provide the farmer with context specificnotifications and alerts. A generic framework able to fulfill a number of requirements has beendeveloped, and this framework has shown its value through working prototypes for handlinglogbook for manure storage tanks and for retrieving field specific information.