Augmented Reality Greenhouse

The unstoppable evolution in diversity and capacity of information and communication technologies at our disposal, in particular the growing features of collection and data storage, communication facilities and associated action, which can be integrated in mobile and collaborative solutions, created a window of opportunity to innovate and create decision support systems that allow us to put on the field at the disposal of farmers and agricultural technicians sophisticated information systems that support decision making by providing updated information, at the right time and in the most appropriate format. The delivery of information to the end use is nowadays receiving increased attention and to deal with this challenges one of the possible approaches is to launch Business Intelligence (BI) platforms. The present work addresses the last step of these BI platforms, the user interface challenge and proposes for the agricultural field the usage of smartphones and augmented reality as an effective mechanism to deliver in the field and in a transparent way information for decision making. With that purpose we present a augmented reality prototype to deliver information for decision support in a greenhouse using a BI approach and a smartphone Layar augmented reality interface.