A Study of an Agricultural Ontology Model for an Intelligent Service in a Vertical Farm

The development of agriculture has led to the development of civilization. In other words, the development of agriculture is one of the most important factors to the development of human life. So, many studies for the recent agricultural environments focus on the ITagricultural convergence to aim for smart and ubiquitous agricultural services. However, most of existing IT-agricultural technologies for smart services in agricultural environments are less flexible or less real time because they tend to be dependent on particular systems and use a few of fixed environmental data. And also they always need a human intervention about a variety of exceptional situations. To resolve the limitations and disadvantages, this paper designs the vertical farm ontology that is defined as the environmental, control factors and relationship between each factor for the crop growth using OWL based on RDF. The defined factors in the vertical farm ontology can be extended continuously, and its knowledge can be shared and reused in a various domains of agricultural environment.