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1 Applications

Introduction

An actualized convergence service for agriculture is expected to bring more efficiency and quality
improvement in production, distribution and consumption of agricultural products with the aid of IT
information processing and autonomous control technologies.

However, there exist many difficulties to establish services and systems to actualize the convergence service
in the agricultural field to cope with various problems such as time-varying weather changes, growth
condition of farm products, and continual diseases or technical problems such as battery life and sensor
malfunctions due to severe conditions. In addition, the gap of viewpoints between people engaged in farming
and IT engineers may make it difficult to accomplish this mission.

Therefore, it is appropriate to consider an actualized convergence service for agriculture, namely Smart
Farming, as a solution to cope with anticipated problems. In addition, the aspect of network capabilities to
support this convergence service, where various types of networks, such as NGN, Future Networks and legacy
networks, could be applied should be considered. This Recommendation develops a reference model, defines
service capabilities and identifies network capabilities required to support such services.

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