A cross platform mobile application approach for supporting harvesting process execution in agricultural production

Part of the KOMOBAR project aims to support agricultural production processes in rural areas. These processes are subject to frequent disturbances that need to be accounted for. KOMOBAR proposes to reduce the (human to human) communication overhead by deploying a distributed system that allows for soft real-time monitoring of the respective processes in execution. Further, KOMOBAR considers a major requirement that is found in the targeted market: A majority of the subcontractors that conduct the harvest are small to medium sized businesses that are unlikely to accept larger investments in IT infrastructure. KOMOBAR addresses this by employing Commercial Of-The-Shelf hardware and a cross platform software approach.