Cloud computing and agriculture
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This document discusses how cloud computing can support agricultural development in Iran. It provides background on cloud computing and its characteristics. Cloud computing can help integrate agricultural information, enable real-time monitoring of production, provide science/technology services, and improve supply chain management in Iran's agriculture sector. However, fully implementing these applications will require building cloud data centers, integrating resources, improving information services, and ensuring data security. Overall, the document argues that adopting cloud computing is an important step for modernizing and increasing the information technology capabilities of Iran's agriculture.
![Agricultural
Development
in
IRAN
base
on
Cloud
Computing
Theory
Mahyar
Amini
1
,
Nazli
Sadat
Safavi
2
,
Aryati
Bakri
3
,
Seyyed
Morteza
Noorbakhsh
4
1,2,3
Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81300 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashahad (FUM), Mashhad, Iran
1
Mahyar.Amini@Gmail.com
,
2
Nazli.Safavi@Gmail.com
,
3
Aryati@UTM.my
,
4
S.Morteza.Noorbakhsh@Gmail.com
4
Abstract
Cloud computing technology has brought great
opportunities to the development of IRAN's agriculture;
however it is also facing unprecedented challenges.
According to the advantages of cloud computing, based
on the status quo of Iran’s agricultural development,
the paper first discussed the impacts of cloud
computing for IRAN’s agricultural development; and
analysed the field and the prospects of its possible
applications in agriculture; then presented the
application and promotion of cloud computing
technology is a long-term system works, not only need
to build the data centre, integrate resources, enhance
service capabilities, and also need to make information
security .
1.
Introduction
With increasing development of IT and
communications and growth of data size in the
network, together with the emergence of new
applications and computing needs, the necessity of
computational capacity is growing exponentially
day-by-day [1]. In shofar as nowadayscomputational capacity is considered as one of the
main source (together with water, electricity, fuel
and telephone) [2]. This necessity will attract the
attention more than before with presenting new
considerations such as providing the energy of
data canters and their influence on the
environment and also global instruction about the
constant development [3]. Cloud Computing is a
new approach which brings the information
computing and storage from PC’s into giant data
centre. It presents application programs and
informational needs as service via Internet [4]. On
the other hand, one can take advantages of third
person facility to do his computational
requirements. One of the main motivations in
developing the cloud computing is enhancing
server’s efficiency, decreasing the cost of
computations and storage, fast and unlimited
growth of computing and storage capacity and
also increasing the reliability [5].
Currently, the countries in the world for the
study of cloud computing technology is not very
mature, Research in developed countries started
earlier, and has made outstanding achievements in
the basic framework, technical support, platform
building. Major world-class IT companies, such as
Microsoft, HP, Google, IBM, Oracle, and so on,
have deeply realized the huge market potential and
business opportunities in the field of "cloud
computing", and all have been engaging in these
studies [6]. Now, cloud computing has been used
and promoted in the field of medicine and
medical, manufacturing, financial services,
energy, communication and other key areas,
which will play an important role for improving
the efficient use of resources, information sharing
and integration [7].
In Iran, Cloud computing applications in
agriculture is in the phase of theoretical research,
and lack mature cases [8][9]. Therefore, this
technology is great significant to improve
management level in the weak field of agriculture
information construction, the combination of
agricultural information and modernization [10].
2.
Cloud
Computing
Technology
During the recent years, many scholars had
focused on cloud computing as the latest
development in the field of Information
Technology. Cloud computing is commonly
described as the usage of computing resources](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/cloudcomputingandagriculturef-140117015446-phpapp01/85/Cloud-computing-and-agriculture-1-320.jpg)
![provided as services over network [11]. Different
definitions and domains have been attributed to
cloud computing. It provides various services for
users in spite of not having relevant information
over the technology structures. Therefore, it
actually can be called “service on the cloud” [12].
are broadly divided into three categories:
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-aService (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
The name cloud computing was inspired by the
cloud symbol that's often used to represent the
Internet in flowcharts and diagrams [15].
An all over the world well-accepted
institution in the Information Technology field is
national institute of standards and technology
(NIST), which defined the cloud computing. NIST
used five important features, four cloud
deployment models and three cloud services
models to describe the cloud computing
architecture [13]. Figure 1 shows the overall
architecture of cloud computing.
SaaS delivers all traditional application
purposes, but access to certain applications is
achieved over Internet. In the cloud, PaaS is the
service layer middle factor that provides software
and services for users without downloading or
installations. Platform as a Service, offers an
infrastructure with a high level combination to use
and test the cloud applications [16]. IaaS is the
part of the architecture to offer the infrastructure,
which is essential for SaaS and PaaS. IaaS uses
operating and applications systems to create
resources such as network, storage and servers
more
accessible,
which
provides
basic
infrastructure on-demand services [17].
Fig
1:
Cloud Computing Architecture
As figure five important characteristics are
identified by the NIST to make a distinction
between cloud computing from other computing
models, which could be categorized as common
and essential characteristics. These characteristics
are categorized as follow: On Demand SelfService, Broad Network Access, Resource
Pooling, Rapid Elasticity and Measured Service
[14].
Cloud computing is a general term for anything
that involves delivering hosted services over the
Internet. These services as mentioned in figure 1
Various deployment models are proposed based
on the cloud computing environments availability
and the intended access methods. Access
permission or limitation is depends on the type of
information, business processes and organization
characteristics. More limited environment is
required in some organizations to certify that the
only accurately authorized users can use deployed
cloud services of certain resources. In this section,
a number of clouds computing deployment models
are discussed that comprise of public cloud,
private cloud, hybrid cloud and community cloud
[18].
3.
The relationship between Cloud computing
and agricultural development
Although IRAN has achieved fruitful results in
crop cultivation, animal and plant breeding,
agricultural production is still decentralized
operation, low level information technology,
coupled with farmers limitations constraints, the
speed of agricultural modernization resulting is
slow [19]. Therefore, it is often the obvious
contradiction between supply and demand in
agricultural products; it not only hurt the
enthusiasm of farmers engaged in agricultural
production, reducing farmers' income, but also](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/cloudcomputingandagriculturef-140117015446-phpapp01/85/Cloud-computing-and-agriculture-2-320.jpg)
![hindered the rapid socio-economic development.
The applications of cloud computing technology
in agriculture can solve the bottleneck problem of
agricultural modernization and agricultural
information, and can also break agricultural
producers’ limitations in knowledge or
technology,
reduce
duplication,
improve
utilization of existing resources to make up for
dispersed, small-scale, regional differences
agricultural production and the strong dependence
on the natural climate vulnerability of agricultural
production [20].
Cloud computing applications in agriculture
makes agricultural producers do not need too
much hardware and software investment, do not
need to master advanced knowledge of computer
and network technology; they can enjoy a more
professional and more comprehensive services.
The client just need to send the request to the
cloud, then resources dispatch center will analysis
and handle dynamically, and finally the
corresponding processing results will be passed
back to the client [21].
4. Cloud computing applications in agriculture
4.1 High integration and sharing of agriculture
information
4.2 Real-time monitoring and guidance in
agricultural production
4.3 Providing agricultural science and technology
service
4.4 Construction and improvement of the
agricultural products supply chain
4.5 Tracking and monitoring of the agricultural
products quality
5. Implementation of cloud computing
technology in agriculture
Promotion and application of cloud computing
technology is an inevitable choice to achieve the
modernization and informatization of agriculture,
is also an inevitable trend in the Internet
technology popularization. But cloud computing
application is still in its infancy stage and lacks
references of success cases, therefore needs longterm exploration and step-by-step implementation.
Meanwhile, it is more needed to raise awareness
of the abundant agricultural producers and alllevel government departments to improve their
own qualities and enhance management
capabilities for safeguarding the smooth
implementation of cloud computing technology.
5.1 Build cloud computing data center
5.2 Integrate agricultural resources
5.3 Improve the information service capacity of
the agricultural sector
5.4 Pay attention to the agricultural information
security
6. Conclusions
Cloud computing technology attracts more and
more attentions of countries and enterprises with
its powerful advantages and market potential, the
feasibility and applicability of whose application
are also exploring in various industries. This
technology will bring greater opportunities to the
agricultural development in Iran, and also be the
inevitable choice to achieve modernization and
informatization in agriculture. However, all-level
governments should be fully aware that its
implementation will be a long exploring process,
especially in the weak infrastructure and
information construction agriculture area, where
the application difficulties are hard to imagine.
Therefore,
government
departments
and
institutions should pay full attention to the
implementation of this technology, raise
awareness, and especially provide strong support
in platform construction, resource integration and
service capabilities. We believe that with the
supporting of modern information technology and
network technology, China's agriculture is bound
to usher in a rapid and healthy development
period.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/cloudcomputingandagriculturef-140117015446-phpapp01/85/Cloud-computing-and-agriculture-3-320.jpg)
Cloud computing and agriculture
- 1. Agricultural Development in IRAN base on Cloud Computing Theory Mahyar Amini 1 , Nazli Sadat Safavi 2 , Aryati Bakri 3 , Seyyed Morteza Noorbakhsh 4 1,2,3 Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81300 Johor Bahru, Malaysia Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashahad (FUM), Mashhad, Iran 1 Mahyar.Amini@Gmail.com , 2 Nazli.Safavi@Gmail.com , 3 Aryati@UTM.my , 4 S.Morteza.Noorbakhsh@Gmail.com 4 Abstract Cloud computing technology has brought great opportunities to the development of IRAN's agriculture; however it is also facing unprecedented challenges. According to the advantages of cloud computing, based on the status quo of Iran’s agricultural development, the paper first discussed the impacts of cloud computing for IRAN’s agricultural development; and analysed the field and the prospects of its possible applications in agriculture; then presented the application and promotion of cloud computing technology is a long-term system works, not only need to build the data centre, integrate resources, enhance service capabilities, and also need to make information security . 1. Introduction With increasing development of IT and communications and growth of data size in the network, together with the emergence of new applications and computing needs, the necessity of computational capacity is growing exponentially day-by-day [1]. In shofar as nowadayscomputational capacity is considered as one of the main source (together with water, electricity, fuel and telephone) [2]. This necessity will attract the attention more than before with presenting new considerations such as providing the energy of data canters and their influence on the environment and also global instruction about the constant development [3]. Cloud Computing is a new approach which brings the information computing and storage from PC’s into giant data centre. It presents application programs and informational needs as service via Internet [4]. On the other hand, one can take advantages of third person facility to do his computational requirements. One of the main motivations in developing the cloud computing is enhancing server’s efficiency, decreasing the cost of computations and storage, fast and unlimited growth of computing and storage capacity and also increasing the reliability [5]. Currently, the countries in the world for the study of cloud computing technology is not very mature, Research in developed countries started earlier, and has made outstanding achievements in the basic framework, technical support, platform building. Major world-class IT companies, such as Microsoft, HP, Google, IBM, Oracle, and so on, have deeply realized the huge market potential and business opportunities in the field of "cloud computing", and all have been engaging in these studies [6]. Now, cloud computing has been used and promoted in the field of medicine and medical, manufacturing, financial services, energy, communication and other key areas, which will play an important role for improving the efficient use of resources, information sharing and integration [7]. In Iran, Cloud computing applications in agriculture is in the phase of theoretical research, and lack mature cases [8][9]. Therefore, this technology is great significant to improve management level in the weak field of agriculture information construction, the combination of agricultural information and modernization [10]. 2. Cloud Computing Technology During the recent years, many scholars had focused on cloud computing as the latest development in the field of Information Technology. Cloud computing is commonly described as the usage of computing resources
- 2. provided as services over network [11]. Different definitions and domains have been attributed to cloud computing. It provides various services for users in spite of not having relevant information over the technology structures. Therefore, it actually can be called “service on the cloud” [12]. are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-aService (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The name cloud computing was inspired by the cloud symbol that's often used to represent the Internet in flowcharts and diagrams [15]. An all over the world well-accepted institution in the Information Technology field is national institute of standards and technology (NIST), which defined the cloud computing. NIST used five important features, four cloud deployment models and three cloud services models to describe the cloud computing architecture [13]. Figure 1 shows the overall architecture of cloud computing. SaaS delivers all traditional application purposes, but access to certain applications is achieved over Internet. In the cloud, PaaS is the service layer middle factor that provides software and services for users without downloading or installations. Platform as a Service, offers an infrastructure with a high level combination to use and test the cloud applications [16]. IaaS is the part of the architecture to offer the infrastructure, which is essential for SaaS and PaaS. IaaS uses operating and applications systems to create resources such as network, storage and servers more accessible, which provides basic infrastructure on-demand services [17]. Fig 1: Cloud Computing Architecture As figure five important characteristics are identified by the NIST to make a distinction between cloud computing from other computing models, which could be categorized as common and essential characteristics. These characteristics are categorized as follow: On Demand SelfService, Broad Network Access, Resource Pooling, Rapid Elasticity and Measured Service [14]. Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services as mentioned in figure 1 Various deployment models are proposed based on the cloud computing environments availability and the intended access methods. Access permission or limitation is depends on the type of information, business processes and organization characteristics. More limited environment is required in some organizations to certify that the only accurately authorized users can use deployed cloud services of certain resources. In this section, a number of clouds computing deployment models are discussed that comprise of public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud and community cloud [18]. 3. The relationship between Cloud computing and agricultural development Although IRAN has achieved fruitful results in crop cultivation, animal and plant breeding, agricultural production is still decentralized operation, low level information technology, coupled with farmers limitations constraints, the speed of agricultural modernization resulting is slow [19]. Therefore, it is often the obvious contradiction between supply and demand in agricultural products; it not only hurt the enthusiasm of farmers engaged in agricultural production, reducing farmers' income, but also
- 3. hindered the rapid socio-economic development. The applications of cloud computing technology in agriculture can solve the bottleneck problem of agricultural modernization and agricultural information, and can also break agricultural producers’ limitations in knowledge or technology, reduce duplication, improve utilization of existing resources to make up for dispersed, small-scale, regional differences agricultural production and the strong dependence on the natural climate vulnerability of agricultural production [20]. Cloud computing applications in agriculture makes agricultural producers do not need too much hardware and software investment, do not need to master advanced knowledge of computer and network technology; they can enjoy a more professional and more comprehensive services. The client just need to send the request to the cloud, then resources dispatch center will analysis and handle dynamically, and finally the corresponding processing results will be passed back to the client [21]. 4. Cloud computing applications in agriculture 4.1 High integration and sharing of agriculture information 4.2 Real-time monitoring and guidance in agricultural production 4.3 Providing agricultural science and technology service 4.4 Construction and improvement of the agricultural products supply chain 4.5 Tracking and monitoring of the agricultural products quality 5. Implementation of cloud computing technology in agriculture Promotion and application of cloud computing technology is an inevitable choice to achieve the modernization and informatization of agriculture, is also an inevitable trend in the Internet technology popularization. But cloud computing application is still in its infancy stage and lacks references of success cases, therefore needs longterm exploration and step-by-step implementation. Meanwhile, it is more needed to raise awareness of the abundant agricultural producers and alllevel government departments to improve their own qualities and enhance management capabilities for safeguarding the smooth implementation of cloud computing technology. 5.1 Build cloud computing data center 5.2 Integrate agricultural resources 5.3 Improve the information service capacity of the agricultural sector 5.4 Pay attention to the agricultural information security 6. Conclusions Cloud computing technology attracts more and more attentions of countries and enterprises with its powerful advantages and market potential, the feasibility and applicability of whose application are also exploring in various industries. This technology will bring greater opportunities to the agricultural development in Iran, and also be the inevitable choice to achieve modernization and informatization in agriculture. However, all-level governments should be fully aware that its implementation will be a long exploring process, especially in the weak infrastructure and information construction agriculture area, where the application difficulties are hard to imagine. Therefore, government departments and institutions should pay full attention to the implementation of this technology, raise awareness, and especially provide strong support in platform construction, resource integration and service capabilities. We believe that with the supporting of modern information technology and network technology, China's agriculture is bound to usher in a rapid and healthy development period.