A self organizing cyber physical system for sustainable agriculture

The transformation of food production through digital tools and technologies requires not only advanced devices and processing capabilities, but also a holistic agricultural framework that unifies multiple types of stakeholders across the agri-food chain. This paper introduces the AGRARIAN platform, a stakeholder-centric, self-organizing Cyber-Physical System designed to answer the modern and future demands of sustainable agriculture, unifying farmers, developers and policy makers, all in one dynamic and scalable ecosystem. Integrating hybrid communications, lightweight services orchestration, continuous development and cross-farm decision support, the AGRARIAN platform offers a complete solution for the next generation of farm management. For the platform validation, field trials were performed for the use case of livestock monitoring in a remote area, using commercial communication links (5 G, WiFi and satellite) for real-world system evaluation. The measurements and the results analysis confirmed the capacity of the AGRARIAN platform to support the necessary functions and services, opening the way towards modern and sustainable farming.