Scenario 4 - Exchange of Operational Master Data
4.0 Overview
The exchange of operational master data is the synching of growers, farms, fields, crops, products, machines, guidance patterns and other defined names and identifiers of things that any two systems must have a common definition of. Historically Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS) have used the term “Setup Card” to describe the process whereby a farmer or his advisor would define the names of fields, the varieties to be planted and the products to be applied on the FMIS for export to in-cab monitor, either by removable media or cloud-based integration. ISO11783-10 uses the term “Coding Data” to refer to the same concept.
As the industry desires better ties from field operation data back to identifiable inputs, it is crucial that on-board equipment monitors have good data to display in picklists. Similarly, it is increasingly common for multiple participants to use the same data in management or advice to the same farm. Items in the ADAPT Standard have the concept of the Unique Identifier, whereby any number of persistent ids from different systems can tie together an object shared in two systems.
One system may share its grower, farm and field hierarchy with in-cab software, or it may share it with another system used by different participants in the operation and management of the same farm.
In the same way, one system can source a defined list of input products and distribute them to relevant data consumers.
Where it is important to track the machinery used, common definitions may also be shared
4.1 Business Workflow (Sequence)
4.2 Example
- Grower Farm Field hierarchy, Field Boundaries, Products and Devices.
- Example includes persistent unique identifes mapping to a third party system.