Farming is facing many economic challenges in terms of productivity and cost-effectiveness. Labor shortage partly due to depopulation of rural areas, especially in Europe, is another challenge. Domain specific problems such as accurate monitoring of soil and crop properties and animal health are key factors for minimizing economical risks, and not risking human health. The ECSEL AFarCloud (Aggregate Farming in the Cloud) project will provide a distributed platform for autonomous farming that will allow the integration and cooperation of agriculture Cyber Physical Systems in real-time in order to increase efficiency, productivity, animal health, food quality and reduce farm labor costs. Moreover, such a platform can be integrated with farm management software to support monitoring and decision-making solutions based on big data and real-time data mining techniques.

就生产率和成本效益而言，农业面临许多经济挑战。另一个挑战是部分由于农村人口减少而造成的劳动力短缺，尤其是在欧洲。特定领域的问题，例如对土壤和作物特性以及动物健康的精确监控，是最大限度地降低经济风险且不危害人类健康的关键因素。ECSEL AFarCloud（云中的总体农业）项目将为自主农业提供一个分布式平台，该平台将允许农业网络物理系统的实时集成和合作，以提高效率，生产力，动物健康，食品质量并减少农场劳动力成本。此外，