Modeling smart apiculture ecosystem: An ontology-based approach

This article presents a model of a smart apiculture ecosystem that uses ontology at its core. The apiculture domain is chosen for its essential role in the global food market and both direct and indirect impact on the majority of agricultural domains. The main contribution of the research is to provide an approach for data-driven modeling of smart ecosystems. To achieve this, a domain-specific ontology is created, as an extension to SSN ontology. Based on the created ontology, a smart ecosystem is analyzed and a model for smart apiary IT platform is developed. The used process and the created model push towards standardization of data in agricultural domain. It provides a framework for future development of smart agriculture ecosystems, knowledge management solutions, better decision-making in business processes and can serve as a basis for future development of AI-based prediction and recommendation systems.