Application programming interface - API para integração de dados em agricultura de precisão

Abstract

Given the importance of the agricultural sector in the national economy, and with the growing need to increase productivity, the development of technologies that allow the integration of computational applications applied to the agricultural environment is necessary, considering the need to obtain information quickly and safely. The Precision Agriculture (AP) is based on the application of technologies for better decision-making, mainly concerning the application of agricultural inputs and management of the existing resources. The present study aimed at the development of a computational tool in a Web environment that allows the storage, integration and management of agricultural data through integrated specialist software. Through the Internet environment and HTTP requests / responses, the tool aims to provide an interface for other software to send and receive agricultural data creating an integration between several applications. The tool has proven to be efficient, offering several advantages in terms of the shortest development time of applications and the integration of them, which can be developed in different programming languages and for different environments.