Integrating IoT with BPM to Provide Value to Cattle Farmers in Australia

This research study covers the journey to date introducing BPM into the increasing IoT implementations across cattle farming operations in Australia, to generate value through improved decision support. The research is supported by Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) who represent over 50 000 cattle, sheep and goat producers, Hitachi Consulting as well as individual farming businesses from large corporates to family owned farms. The challenges of deploying IoT devices, especially across extensive farms in remote areas, the importance of looking beyond numerous dashboards on various websites and mobile applications to an integrated control centre, with BPM at its core, driving decision support are documented. Capabilities of Business Process Management Systems have been leveraged to drive workflow and process orchestration to extract the right data and run decision models. Learnings from this research study can be applied to any industry or value chain wishing to extract greater value from the opportunities provided by IoT.