Mobile Edge Computing in AG Tradeshows

技术、设备和实践方面的创新使加拿大成为世界第五大农产品出口国。为了继续建立一个成功、可持续的农业食品部门，加拿大农业的利益攸关方必须掌握信息，以便在面对气候变化、天气模式变化和社会经济变化的不确定性时建立复原力。冰川农场媒体公司(GFM)通过在其农业动态(AIM)贸易展和农场论坛活动大会上增加一个功能性、参与性的研究人员部分，扩大了他们在加拿大农业行业已经广泛参与的知识传播。这一参与性研究部分将在154公顷(380英亩)的活动地点举行，名为卓越领域。AIM的扩张放大了沟通方面的挑战。参观者超过12,000人/天，占地259公顷(640英亩)。有限的连接由临时信号塔和有限的WiFi现场提供。GFM与萨斯喀彻温省理工学院(SaskPoly)合作开发了一款可扩展的移动应用程序，该应用程序采用独特和创新的方式：1)增强、鼓励和促进与会者在短期集群中的参与和知识转移；2)解决连接问题。在早期对渐进式移动网络应用程序原型的研究(由NSERC Engage和Engage Plus拨款支持)的基础上，将继续研究创新的、引人入胜的可视化，同时提供一个框架，用于集成当前的本地处理数据和云数据，包括使用LORA(远程)技术的物联网(IOT)设备的实时数据。将评估缓解现场连接和带宽限制的战略，以确定解决农村带宽问题的潜力，农村带宽问题是农村地区采用技术的关键障碍。数据整合、处理、分析和可视化的开放框架将被用作今后研究农业知识走廊的基础，农业知识走廊是集群的另一种形式。该走廊旨在集中和汇聚不同的农业部门，将战略联系起来，努力促进农业知识。将对匿名使用数据进行分析，以确定参与级别和与会者重点，以评估和告知最佳实践。在为期三年的研究中，将对田间试验数据进行效果分析，并在农场论坛活动上展示长期可识别的模式和趋势。

Innovations in technology, equipment, and practices have led Canada to be the world's fifth-largest exporter of agri-food products. To keep building a successful, sustainable Agri-food sector, stakeholders in Canadian agriculture must have information to build resilience when facing the uncertainties of climate change, altered weather patterns, and socio-economic shifts. Glacier FarmMedia (GFM) is expanding their already extensive involvement in knowledge dissemination in the Canadian agriculture industry by adding a functional, participatory researcher component to their Ag in Motion (AIM) trade show and their Farm Forum Event convention. This participatory research component will take place on 154 hectares (380 acres) of their event site called the Field of Excellence. AIM's expansion magnifies the communication challenge. Attendance exceeds 12,000/d across 259 hectares (640 acres). Limited connectivity is provided by a temporary cell tower and limited WIFI onsite. GFM has partnered with Saskatchewan Polytechnic (SaskPoly) to develop a scalable mobile application that employs unique and innovative ways to: 1) enhance, encourage, and promote attendee participation and knowledge transfer in the short-lived cluster and 2) address connectivity issues. Building on earlier research into a progressive mobile web application prototype (supported by NSERC Engage and Engage Plus grants), research will continue on innovative, engaging visualization while providing a framework for the integration of the current, locally-processed and cloud data including real time data from Internet of Things (IOT) devices using LoRa (Long Range) technologies. Strategies to mitigate the connectivity and bandwidth limitations on site will be evaluated for potential to address rural bandwidth issues, a key barrier to technology adoption in rural areas. The open framework for integration, processing, analysis, and visualization of data will be used as a basis for future research into an agriculture knowledge corridor which is yet another form of cluster. The corridor is meant to concentrate and bring together different agricultural sectors to link strategies in an effort to promote agricultural knowledge. Anonymous usage data will be analyzed to determine participation levels and attendee focus, to evaluate and inform best practices. Field trial data will be analyzed for effect and long term identifiable patterns and trends to be presented at the Farm Forum Event over the three-year study.