Development of Social Network Service Type Applications on the Android Platform for Recording and Sharing Crop Cultivation Information Using the Extended Ubiquitous Environment Control System Communication Protocol

• Ohata Ryosuke

  Major of Biological Science and Technology, Cource of High Technology for Human Welfare, Graduate School of Tokai University

• Hoshi Takehiko

  Department of Biotechnological Science, Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kinki University

• Watanabe Katsuyoshi

  Social Cloud Business Development Office, Fujitsu LTD

• Ueda Syojiro

  Social Solutions Unit, Fujitsu Kyushu Systems Ltd.

• Yasuba Kenichiro

  Vegetable Production Technology Division, National Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

• Nanseki Teruaki

  Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University

• Hayashi Makio

  Department of Biological Science and Technology, School of High Technology for Human Welfare, Tokai University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• UECS通信規約の拡張による作物栽培情報の記録・共有を目的にしたSNS型Androidアプリケーションの開発

Abstract

We proposed and developed a “one-stop service system to support protected horticultural production" in greenhouses based on the working standard for the Ubiquitous Environment Control System (UECS) standard. To record and share crop cultivation information in the form of an electronic field note, we developed and tested two applications based on the Android platform and the extended UECS communication protocol (UECS-CCM). We named the applications the UECS tweeting application (Tsubuyaki-appli) and the UECS tweet-sharing application (Kyoyu-appli). Tsubuyaki-appli sends extended UECS-CCM packets over a greenhouse local area network (LAN). The packets include a photo of the greenhouse crop and a short description, and are transmitted using mobile devices such as an Android smartphone. Kyoyu-appli receives the extended UECS-CCM packets and displays the received information by using a social network service interface. Our testing of both applications revealed that they promoted sharing of information among greenhouse workers, with the only requirement being a low-cost Android device. We expect that such applications will lead to further advances in greenhouse crop production technology.

Journal

• Agricultural Information Research

  Agricultural Information Research 22 (2), 96-102, 2013

  Japanese Society of Agricultural Informatics

Keywords

• Smartphone
• Greenhouse
• UECS-CCM
• Text data
• Image data
• One-stop service

Details

• CRID: 1390001204461099136
• NII Article ID: 130003367894
• DOI: 10.3173/air.22.96
• ISSN: 18815219
• ISSN: 09169482
• Text Lang: ja
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