Computing systems have been employed for agricultural purposes, mainly in the precision farming domain. However, their implementation is complex because the cooperation among system components formed by agricultural equipment and computing parts do not have a common interface and the components are developed over distinct technologies (heterogeneous components). Also, the components are individually validated and the cooperation among them can be observed only in experiments using prototypes, delaying the identification of errors and increasing general costs. Simulation techniques are used to observe the work of all systems using models. This paper discusses a heterogeneous simulation to improve the implementation process of precision agricultural systems that bind heterogeneous components. This article presents a solution based on DCB (Distributed Cosimulation Backbone) architecture of heterogeneous models simulation. A SEP (Electronic Plantation Supervisor) system is presented as a study case.
heterogeneous simulation; representation models; embedded architectures; project process
