Intelligent Data-Driven Decision Support for Agricultural Systems-ID3SAS

Abstract

The agricultural sector worldwide faces serious problems regarding water scarcity, which demands innovative management methods to optimise water use. In response, we propose the Intelligent Data-Driven Decision Support for Agricultural Systems (ID3SAS) methodology, which offers a scalable, flexible, and cloud-based decision support system for real-time supervision and control in agricultural environments. Aligned with the prevailing trends of Agriculture 4.0, ID3SAS integrates data acquisition, cloud-based storage, machine learning, predictive analysis, and run-time reasoning to facilitate decision-making processes, thereby assisting users in making more informed and sustainable decisions. In a case study with tomato plants, ID3SAS-irrigated plants showed 20.9% reduction in water consumption and 26.4% increase in crop production compared to traditional methods, which despite the controlled laboratory environment setting, highlights the methodology’s promising potential in addressing water scarcity and enhancing agricultural productivity.