An Approach for a Self-Growing Agricultural Knowledge Cloud in Smart Agriculture

Typically, most of the agricultural works have to consider not only fixed data related with a cultivated crop, but also various environmental factors which are dynamically changed. Therefore, a farmer has to consider readjust the fixed data according to the environmental conditions in order to cultivate a crop in optimized growth environments. However, because the readjustment is delicate and complicated, it is difficult for user to by hand on a case by case. To solve the limitations, this paper introduces an approach for self-growing agricultural knowledge cloud in smart agriculture. The self-growing agricultural knowledge cloud can offer a user or a smart agricultural service system the optimized growth information customized for a specific crop with not only the knowledge and the experience of skillful agricultural experts, but also useful analysis data, and accumulated statistics. Therefore, by using the self-growing agricultural knowledge cloud, a user can easily cultivate any crop without a lot of the crop growth information and expert knowledge.