Specialist Task Force 542:

Pilot test plan for interfacing oneM2M platform with Agriculture machines and standards

Who we are:

What we do

By making use of oneM2M standards, the STF 542 plans to study and produce a Technical Report providing the necessary input (parameters and measurement methods) for a pilot Plugtests™ event to validate the possible cooperation between the ETSI oneM2M standards and AEF ISOBUS standards implemented for communication inside and between agriculture & forestry machines. The STF will also make recommendations on the changes or new specifications that could be done to oneM2M standards to enable the cooperation mechanism.

ETSI TC ITS standards, such as ETSI EN 302 637-3 (Decentralized Environmental Notification Basic Service) or ETSI EN 302 637-2 (Cooperative Awareness Basic Service) are part of this cooperation in the use case to be demonstrated.

The main scenario envisioned for the pilot Plugtests™ event consists in the dissemination of a warning message to vehicles passing-by as soon as an agriculture or forestry equipment from the fields has been detected to exit on the road. The coordination between the detection of this event and the sending of the notification message will be done using an oneM2M gateway in the tractor.

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Why we do it

In many cases, the definition proposed by horizontal sectors is not correlated to the needs of the end-users in vertical applications. It is thus necessary to collect the real needs from the end-users or at the level of the data machine producers’ level. In the agricultural domain, the soil definition, the certification of the pulled equipment, all these KPIs are developed at the level of the vertical sector and an alignment of the sector with the main stakeholders of the industry already exists. 

The agricultural industry is supplying a diverse market and is driven by innovations of numerous manufacturers. The objective of the Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF) is the interoperability of different manufacturer’s equipment via common standards. The ISOBUS standard (ISO 11783) is a family of fourteen standards that specify the communication between connected Electronic Control Units (ECU) on the vehicle network of tractors and self-propelled agricultural machines as well as on detachable, pulled farm equipment. Parts 1 to 14 of the standard cover all layers of the protocol stack ranging from a Controller Area Network (CAN) topology at the physical layer up to the specification of control functions and Virtual Terminal (remote control) sessions on application layer. All communication utilizes industry-wide standardized data dictionaries. 

The benefit brought by the STF is the definition of new interfaces between the oneM2M platform, and the ETSI TC ITS standards and ISOBUS standard developed by AEF in the agriculture vertical sector respectively. It will make a step forward in the progress to enable the interoperability between vertical sectors. However, the inter-working between the oneM2M platform and the ISOBUS standard is the main focus of the STF.

In addition to the ISOBUS standard, AEF publishes a set of guidelines (functional safety, implementation, etc.) and conformance tests. The ISOBUS standard, together with these AEF guidelines and documents applied for the exchange of data between a tractor and an implement are a good candidate to provide the basis to develop the IoT technical specifications for all Ag equipment in the context of IoT.

How we do it