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During the past decades, new advances in agriculture automation systems have gained more and more importance and capabilities. In parallel, Internet of Things represents the pervasive presence of a variety of objects (devices, sensors, actuators, mobile phones), which are able to interact with each other, cooperate and create new interfaces (human-machine and machine-machine), to reach common goals. Automation on agriculture systems, or precision agriculture, uses control and communication paradigms to develop new systems: devices, sensors and actuators are interoperable. This technologies (software and hardware) improves the capacity of agricultural installations and agronomists take advantage of new services. This paper presents a research on user-centered design integrated with Internet of Things paradigm. A model-driven development of interactive interfaces that can be adapted and modified by the agronomists in their own agriculturals production is proposed. Additionally, control rules and human-computer interfaces are co-designed by agronomist to adapt the needs of each type of crop and other local and temporal condition (climate, water, energy, nutrients, soil).
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Ferrández-Pastor, FJ., García-Chamizo, JM., Nieto Hidalgo, M., Mora-Martínez, J. (2017). User-Centered Design of Agriculture Automation Systems Using Internet of Things Paradigm. In: Ochoa, S., Singh, P., Bravo, J. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. UCAmI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10586. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67585-5_7
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