Abstract:

In recent years the agri-food sector has suffered a series of changes that lead to a driving need for an inclusion of ICT and Information Systems in their production and business processes. One of the agri-food sector entities that has introduced a complex set of technologies and IS in their processes was the mushrooms farms, mainly due to the urging need to control all the variables inherent to the mushroom but also to the surrounding environment. With this paper we aim to present a proposal for an amplified sensing system, composed by a set of wireless sensing nodes with the ability to control environmental indicators, which could act as a complement to a process control system. The Sousacamp Group was used, as case study, to not only identify the environmental indicators that needed to be sensed but also to test an initial version of the proposed system.