Easing Construction of Smart Agriculture Applications Using Low Code Development Tools

Isaac Nyabisa Oteyo; Angel Luis Scull Pupo; Jesse Zaman; Stephen Kimani; Wolfgang De Meuter; Elisa Gonzalez Boix

doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34776-4_2

Easing Construction of Smart Agriculture Applications Using Low Code Development Tools

Isaac Nyabisa Oteyo, Angel Luis Scull Pupo, Jesse Zaman, Stephen Kimani, Wolfgang De Meuter, Elisa Gonzalez Boix

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Abstract

Smart agriculture applications are a promising path to the future of modern farming. Building smart agriculture applications is a complex undertaking that requires considering different factors, such as the technology that can be used to implement the applications. These factors require advanced skills in software construction, such as handling the distributed setting for smart agriculture applications. As such, implementing smart agriculture applications requires engaging experienced developers with the skills to tackle the issues mentioned above. Low code development tools have risen that domain experts (e.g., agricultural extension workers that give advice to farmers) outside software engineering can use to construct software applications. The low code development tools provide visual programming environments that developers can use intuitively to construct applications. However, the existing low code development tools do not offer support for low infrastructure networking that sensors can use to communicate directly to mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets), computation at the edge, and offline accessibility capabilities at the edge that are crucial for smart agriculture applications. In this paper, we present DisCoPar-K, a low code development tool that supports the properties mentioned above for implementing smart agriculture applications. We show how DisCoPar-K can improve the development of smart agriculture applications by implementing smart agriculture use cases on it.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services
Subtitle of host publication	19th EAI International Conference, MobiQuitous 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November 14-17, 2022, Proceedings
Editors	Shangguan Longfei, Priyantha Bodhi
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Pages	21-43
Number of pages	22
Volume	429
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-34776-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-34775-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34776-4_2
Publication status	Published - 27 Jun 2023
Event	19th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services - Pittsburgh, United States, Pittsburgh, United States Duration: 14 Nov 2022 → 17 Nov 2022 Conference number: 19 https://mobiquitous.eai-conferences.org/2022/

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
Volume	492 LNICST
ISSN (Print)	1867-8211
ISSN (Electronic)	1867-822X

Conference

Conference	19th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services
Abbreviated title	EAI MobiQuitous 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Pittsburgh
Period	14/11/22 → 17/11/22
Internet address	https://mobiquitous.eai-conferences.org/2022/

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work is supported by the Legumes Centre for Food and Nutrition Security (LCEFoNS) programme which is funded by VLIR-UOS. The programme is a North-South Collaboration between the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (both in Belgium) and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (Kenya).

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Oteyo, I. N., Scull Pupo, A. L., Zaman, J., Kimani, S., De Meuter, W., & Gonzalez Boix, E. (2023). Easing Construction of Smart Agriculture Applications Using Low Code Development Tools. In S. Longfei, & P. Bodhi (Eds.), Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services: 19th EAI International Conference, MobiQuitous 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November 14-17, 2022, Proceedings (1 ed., Vol. 429, pp. 21-43). (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST; Vol. 492 LNICST). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34776-4_2

Oteyo, Isaac Nyabisa ; Scull Pupo, Angel Luis ; Zaman, Jesse ; Kimani, Stephen ; De Meuter, Wolfgang ; Gonzalez Boix, Elisa. / Easing Construction of Smart Agriculture Applications Using Low Code Development Tools. Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services: 19th EAI International Conference, MobiQuitous 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November 14-17, 2022, Proceedings. editor / Shangguan Longfei ; Priyantha Bodhi. Vol. 429 1. ed. Springer, Cham, 2023. pp. 21-43 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST).

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Oteyo, IN , Scull Pupo, AL, Zaman, J, Kimani, S, De Meuter, W & Gonzalez Boix, E 2023, Easing Construction of Smart Agriculture Applications Using Low Code Development Tools. in S Longfei & P Bodhi (eds), Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services: 19th EAI International Conference, MobiQuitous 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November 14-17, 2022, Proceedings. 1 edn, vol. 429, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST, vol. 492 LNICST, Springer, Cham, pp. 21-43, 19th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 14/11/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34776-4_2

Easing Construction of Smart Agriculture Applications Using Low Code Development Tools. / Oteyo, Isaac Nyabisa ; Scull Pupo, Angel Luis; Zaman, Jesse; Kimani, Stephen; De Meuter, Wolfgang ; Gonzalez Boix, Elisa.

Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services: 19th EAI International Conference, MobiQuitous 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November 14-17, 2022, Proceedings. ed. / Shangguan Longfei; Priyantha Bodhi. Vol. 429 1. ed. Springer, Cham, 2023. p. 21-43 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST; Vol. 492 LNICST).

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