Architecture Overview

AgriFoodData is structured along three pillars — data acquisition, data management, and data sharing — wrapped around a single canonical object, the digital farm twin.

The architecture functions as an integration layer. It does not replace existing FMIS, sensor stacks or AI services; it gives them a common contract.

The integration layer

        Edge devices       Machinery            Services
        Sensors & IoT      FMIS & tractors      GeoAI providers
              │                │                    │
              ▼                ▼                    ▼
       ┌─────────────┐  ┌────────────┐    ┌────────────────┐
       │ Data        │  │ Service    │    │ Scheduling     │
       │ connector   │  │ connector  │    │ connector      │
       └─────────────┘  └────────────┘    └────────────────┘
                          │  │  │
                          ▼  ▼  ▼
       ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
       │     Digital farm twin · JSON-LD / WoT            │
       └──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                          ▲  ▲  ▲
       ┌─────────────┐  ┌────────────┐    ┌────────────────┐
       │ IAM &       │  │ App /      │    │ Clearing       │
       │ consent     │  │ service    │    │ house          │
       │             │  │ store      │    │                │
       └─────────────┘  └────────────┘    └────────────────┘
                                │
                                ▼
       ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
       │ Data spaces · Gaia-X · IDSA · external catalogues │
       └──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

The blueprint does not replace existing FMIS, sensor stacks or AI services — it gives them a common contract.

The six consented building blocks

#	Block	Status
01	Actor roles	Consented
02	Core system components	Consented
03	Data models	Consented
04	API interfaces	Consented
05	Service registry	Consented
06	Data spaces (Gaia-X / IDSA)	Draft

The digital farm APIs

API	Role
Digital Farm API	The REST binding of the data model — master data and operations: organisations, users, farms, fields, regions, cultivation, work, products, machines, animals, observations, economics, compliance, processing runs
Sensor Things API	IoT sensor management & real-time observations
Spatio-Temporal API	Maps, layers, rasters, vectors, AI outputs

See it in action

• Quickstart — first running service in under 30 minutes
• Case Study · GeoAI Telangana — full architecture in production