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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.
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The researcher wishes to acknowledge Meat and Livestock Australia Limited and MLA Donor Company Limited for their funding contributions to these co creation projects, together with Hitachi Consulting Limited. Also, to the meat and livestock businesses, Australian Country Choice, Australian Cattle and Beef Holding and the team members of Croydon Cattle Station who supported and provided deep insights to the projects as well as Will Wilson and team members of the Calliope Cattle Station and Darren Price and team members of Carwoola Pastoral Company. Vodafone Global Enterprises funding and technical support of the Calliope project is also acknowledged. The researcher is currently undertaking a part time professional doctorate degree through the Queensland University of Technology and acknowledges the support of Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Moe Thandar Wynn and Associate Supervisor: Dr. Wasana Bandara, as well as the researcher’s employer Hitachi Consulting Australia Pty Ltd.
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Keates, O. (2019). Integrating IoT with BPM to Provide Value to Cattle Farmers in Australia. In: Di Francescomarino, C., Dijkman, R., Zdun, U. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 362. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37453-2_11
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