162499 20251017144608.0 doi 10.1016/j.compind.2025.104347 sideral 145058 ART-2025-145058 eng Laguna, Jorge Universidad de Zaragoza A platform to support the fast development of digital twins for agricultural holdings 2025 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Industry 4.0 has advanced in agriculture through Smart Agriculture initiatives, yet open-field farming lags in the adoption of digital twins. Although digital twins have transformed manufacturing since 2011, their application in open-field farming remains limited by environmental variability, data scarcity, and financial constraints. This paper addresses four gaps: the lack of affordable platforms for small farms that dominate European agriculture; the need to manage agricultural complexity through data-driven models rather than the physical modelling approaches prevalent in non-agricultural sectors; the absence of open sources solutions adapted to agriculture’s slower innovation pace; the breach between technology and farmers. The platform features innovations in data workflow integration, open data incorporation, a cost-effective shared warehouse, and scalable data pipelines. To validate the proposed platform, a case study with two example digital twins mirroring two fields is conducted. This implementation ran efficiently on modest hardware (2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM). It achieved an average CPU usage of 60%, RAM usage of 2.5 GB, and a deployment time of around one minute. This helps lowering adoption barriers for small holdings and bridging the gap between basic monitoring and complex future systems. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/T04-24 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/T59-23R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Suaza-Medina, Mario E. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-2112-3478 Béjar, Rubén Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-7866-3793 Lacasta, Javier Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3071-5819 Zarazaga-Soria, F. Javier Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-6557-2494 5007 570 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Informát.Ingenie.Sistms. Área Lenguajes y Sistemas Inf. 172 (2025), 104347 [12 pp.] Comput. ind. COMPUTERS IN INDUSTRY 0166-3615 2944317 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162499/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2593794 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/162499/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:162499 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:16:09 ARTICLE