Analysis of processes and applications in agricultural investigations
Project duration: 3 months
Brief description
The processes and program systems of the subsidiary of a food company, which carries out soil analyses of cultivated areas for farmers, are analysed and proposals for reengineering and the further development of processes and applications are developed and presented. A renewal of the system landscape is necessary in order to meet the requirements arising in the context of the digitalisation of agriculture (precision farming).
Supplement
The programs currently in use were primarily developed using the Delphi development environment, the Pascal programming language and MS Access as a database. In addition, there are various interfaces to external partners as well as to the central system of the parent company with whose Oracle RDBMS data is exchanged. In addition, analysis orders are transferred to a laboratory system and the results are processed.
Subject description
The company receives soil samples from its customers, which are processed and tested in a Group laboratory. The results of the laboratory analyses are processed by their programmes and reports and recommendations, e.g. fertiliser recommendations for farmers, are prepared. The process flow of the order as well as the sample run and the transmission of the results are supported. The programs used are to be extended so that more efficient methods for sampling and the integration of geodata are also made possible.