Here, it should be noted that all interfaces provided by the
Mobius are representational state transfer (REST) application
programming interfaces (APIs). That is, the interfaces between
the Mobius and &Cubes could be standardized and thus easily
extended by integrating with other IoT gateways installed with
the &Cube, regardless of the type of devices connected into
the gateways and access networks. Also, from the point of
view of IoT application developers, they can implement their
applications using REST APIs provided by the Mobius in order
to offer their specialized farming services to customers, even
though they have little knowledge about the devices of the
connected farm. As a conclusion, our proposed design for
connected farms enables seamless deployment of IoT devices
into connected farms, but also fosters third party developers
to develop their innovative farming services and applications
using REST APIs of the Mobius platforms.