Research of livestock farming IoT system based on RESTful web services

The Internet of Things (IoT) technology, based on the wireless sensor network, is developing rapidly and permeating into agriculture including livestock farming. Our research focuses on the problem that current industrial IoT system for livestock farming is tightly coupled, hard to expand, and with poor network performance. In this paper we proposed an integrated framework of smart livestock farming IoT system by means of RESTful (REST: Representational State Transfer) web services. The global research-and-developing situation of smart livestock farming IoT system is given at first. Then SOAP-based WS-* and REST, two common Web services technology, are compared and their suitable application scenarios are also described. Finally, a prototype system of smart livestock farming IoT system based Restful Web Services is introduced about environment monitoring and control of henhouse. The experimental result of the prototype system shows that applying Restful Web Technology could improve the efficiency of application development and provides a feasible system development model for smart livestock farming IoT system.