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1 Applications

3.2 Terms defined in this Recommendation

This Recommendation defines the following terms:
3.2.1 agricultural consumer: The service role that ultimately purchases the final agricultural products
from distributors or agricultural producers.
3.2.2 agricultural distributor: The service role that distributes agricultural products supplied from
agricultural producers through the distribution channel.
3.2.3 agricultural producer: The service role that actually produces agricultural products to be supplied
to distributors or consumers.
3.2.4 Smart Farming based on networks: A service that uses networks to actualize a convergence service
in the agricultural field to attain more efficiency and quality improvement and to cope with various problems.
NOTE – Problems may include such items as time-varying weather changes, growth condition of farm products, plant
diseases, and technical problems, such as battery life and sensor malfunctions due to severe conditions. The service
may overcome such problems with the aid of IT information processing and autonomous control technologies.

3.2.5 Smart Farming service provider: The service role that provides the requested Smart Farming
services, such as providing a portal or consulting based on data gathered from agricultural fields, to
requesting users.

4 Abbreviations and acronyms
This Recommendation uses the following abbreviations and acronyms:

AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
API Application Programming Interface

CCTV Closed-Circuit Television
DC Distribution Centre

GC Gathering Centre
IoT Internet of Things
IPv6 Internet Protocol, version 6

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
IT Information Technology

NGN Next Generation Network
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

QoS Quality of Service
RFID Radio Frequency Identification

5 Conventions
None.

6 Introduction of Smart Farming based on networks

6.1 Concept

Smart Farming is a service that uses networks to actualize a convergence service in the agricultural field to
cope with various problems, e.g., time-varying weather changes, growth condition of farm products, and
continual diseases or technical problems, such as battery life, sensor malfunctions due to severe conditions,

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