This problem statement is being submitted for Farm Hack community consideration, in hopes of developing open data standards and exchange protocols supporting better communication, coordination and collaboration across Farm to Institution ag/food value chains, as well as the "value networks" which surround and support them.

Possible solutions

• Automated systems to open doors or events
• Text message based alarms

Known solutions

• Fido temperature alarm that sends text messages

In his blog post Are we ready for post-modern farming? Jon Miller outlines the work of Cornell faculty member Rebecca Nelson, and her efforts in understanding and helping realize the promise of agroecology – an approach to farming that looks for and capitalizes on synergies and complementarities among crops, trees, livestock, birds, insects, microbes, soil, water and people.

Tools solving this problem

• Fido, temperature alert system that sends text messages