RESTful Web Services improve the efficiency of data transfer of a whole-farm simulator accessed by Android smartphones

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 87, Issue , 2012, Pages 14-18

  Arroqui, Mauricio ^a,c   Mateos, Cristian ^a,b   Machado, Claudio ^a   Zunino, Alejandro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c ANPCyT   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Agricultural information systems; Mobile devices; REST; Simugan; SOAP; Web services

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORS; ADDED VALUES; AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; AGRICULTURAL PROCESS; DATA PLANES; DATA USAGE; DISTRIBUTED SOURCES; E AGRICULTURES; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; LATIN AMERICA; MEMORY USAGE; REPRESENTATIONAL STATE TRANSFER; REST; RESTFUL WEB SERVICES; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SIMPLE OBJECT ACCESS PROTOCOLS; SIMUGAN; WEB SERVICE TECHNOLOGY;

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; AGRICULTURE; DATA TRANSFER; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MOBILE DEVICES; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; REGIONAL PLANNING; ROBOTS; RURAL AREAS; SMARTPHONES; SOAPS (DETERGENTS); WEBSITES;

WEB SERVICES;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FARMING SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; RURAL DEVELOPMENT;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 84862649974     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2012.05.016     Document Type: Article

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