Human-centric interoperability method for greenhouse digital twins in metaverse era

With the emerging of Digital twins (DT) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in the field of smart agriculture, the agricultural metaverse (AM) is becoming a research hotspot currently. Massive networked and smart sensors and agricultural robots are deployed in greenhouses, and factory greenhouses have become one of the most promising AM application scenarios. Therefore, this paper explores a human-centric interoperability method for the greenhouse DT, in the era of the future AM. First, a smart greenhouse DT model is built, including greenhouse DTs, crop growth models, and facility control modules; Second, based on the greenhouse DT, a human-centered interoperability framework is proposed for socialized greenhouses. Finally, a prototype system of greenhouse DT is designed, to verify the feasibility of the human-centered interoperability method.