The vision

Convinced of the potential of new technologies to create value in agriculture, S2B, a service company of French beet greemers, decides to launch a project of building an Internet platform for online services.

Its ambition : providing tools and technologies that would allow the agricultural world to deal with challenges such as competitiveness, environment management and customers increasing need of transparency, and changing the image of farming into a modern structure, capable to attract new generations and new skills.

The combination of this ambition with the confidence established with Itelios teams gave birth to Visioplaine®.

Concept and capabilities

Visioplaine® is an Internet platform that addresses to farmers, to their partners (cooperatives and distributors) but also to actors of agro-industry.

Via the dedicated and secured interfaces according to users typology, Visioplaine® allows particularly to :

• manage online all the information related to the plots (structure, contract, soil, cultures, environment, technical interventions, traceability…),
• map a farmer's entire farm,
• buy online services by plot, for instance fertilization recommendations using data from satellite images,
• improve one's cultivation practice and optimize resources and input usage,
• implement the principle of unique data entry (thanks to the openness of the platform and to the capacity of exchanging with other technical and economical actors),
• reduce the administrative constraints,
• incorporate and transmit local services / expertise to the entire community of farmers,
• use analysis and reporting tools.

Technology

The design and the carrying out of Visioplaine® relies on Microsoft.Net technologies, foundation of ITELIOS technical expertise.

• Microsoft .Net 2.0 development environment,
• .Net C#, C++ Coding,
• SQL Server 2005 Database,
• Third party systems integration via web services,
• ActiveX integration for the web mode,
• Offline mode capacity,
• Cache client management,
• Data streaming management.

Advantages of the platform

Some of the competitive main advantages of the platform are:

• powerful 3D cartography system,
• user experience and ergonomy,
• advanced integration level of business problematic, strong adequacy of the proposed services ,
• capacity to handle all kinds of geo-referenced information (topographic base),
• open platform and third party services integration capacity ,
• performance of the solution.