A model of a cyber-physical installation for smart greenhouse agriculture

Abstract

The article reviews the main aspects, parameters and effects integrated by smart agriculture. An analysis of the main definitions of the “smart agriculture” concept is drawn, and, a cyber-physical installation for smart greenhouse agriculture is modeled on that basis. The specific benefits from the cyber-physical systems in the agricultural production process are also defined by taking into account the actual prerequisites, factors and indicators related to smart-based agriculture. The main restrictive conditions are generated, as well as the managing parameters and the criterion for optimality of the model of a cyber-physical installation for smart greenhouse agriculture. At the same time, the architecture of a cyber-physical installation for smart greenhouse agriculture is described, while there are the specific mathematical variables integrated in it from the optimization task set in the model. Highlighted are the specific activities performed by each structural element of a cyber-physical installation for smart greenhouse agriculture, where their practical-and-applied benefits and efficiency are also defined, which ultimately leads to achieving the set optimization criterion – maximum return of the invested financial resources.