Content of NEWSLETTER #5 – May 2025
- Running the Living-Lab Evaluation Program
- A more robust and scalable RESILINK server allowing incremental deployment
- Third-party use cases using the RESILINK server and open-API
- What are the next Newsletters?
- How to subscribe to Newsletters, ask questions and provide feedback to Newsletters?
RUNNING THE LIVING-LAB EVALUATION PROGRAM
Since March 2025, partners is Algeria, Egypt and Morocco are running the Living Lab program with their farmers & stakeholders partners. Updated documentations and posters supporting the Living Lab Evaluation Program are customized for each country.
In order to increase the number of testers and feedback, the Living Lab operates in several rounds where, at each round, between 5 and 10 new testers are enrolled and asked to use the RESILINK application for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks, 2 testers were asked to keep using the application on a long term. Then, another round starts with new testers.
Preliminary results have been presented at the conference on “Transforming Agri-Food Supply Chain for a Sustainable Future” organized by InovFarmer.MED on April 30th, 2025.
- Smallholder’s readiness to adopt platforms linking local resource-sharing in Egypt, presented by Dr. Seham El Gamal, Agricultural Research Centre, Egypt. In person in Alexandria.
- Assessing the challenges of adopting digital platforms for localized resource sharing in agriculture, presented by Hayat Lionboui, National Institute of Agronomic Research, Morocco.
Download the E-BOOK of the conference. RESILINK abstracts are on page 9, 14 and 15.
A MORE ROBUST AND SCALABLE RESILINK SERVER ALLOWING INCREMENTAL DEPLOYMENT
The architecture of the RESILINK framework defines 3 components: the RESILINK mobile app, the RESILINK digital platform (or RESILINK server) and the ODEP platform. Figure below highlights the RESILINK server.
The RESILINK server provides a very lightweight server that could be deployed out-of-the-box on laptops or even single board computers such as a Raspberry Pi. This lightweight server can manage most of RESILINK platform core functionalities (news feeds, publication of offers, search for offers and contact users) enabling the deployment of several lightweight RESILINK servers, where each server could have a geographical scope to efficiently manage crisis in a very local manner. Incremental deployment of servers can then provide a very high level of flexibility. This feature is a major step towards the platform-of-platforms approach where the RESILINK server can be deployed, possibly adapted and used, through the proposed open API, for other applications, thus stimulating local innovation.
The feasibility of deploying the RESILINK server on low-cost edge devices was demonstrated on a single-computer board Raspberry Pi 5 with 4GB of main memory. Compared to the standard deployment of the RESILINK server, which uses an external MongoDB Atlas cluster, this Raspberry Pi deployment leverages a local Dockerized MongoDB instance. This design choice avoids the complexity of provisioning and securing new database clusters for each edge deployment, while maintaining compatibility with the application’s data structure. A test on a local network can be easily realized as illustrated below. Updated information can be found in D2.2b “RESILINK resource sharing digital platform – v2″.
THIRD-PARTY USE CASES USING THE RESILINK SERVER AND OPEN API
RESILINK wants to promote a platform-of-platforms approach where the ecosystem is not anymore based on isolation of platforms and competition between them. In order to demonstrate and validate the approach, Orange is developing a demonstrator where a simple application will show how to use the RESILINK Open API to build a rental service of different solar powered tools for agriculture activities. This use-case in linked to several Orange’s research projects in the MEA Area (Middle East and Africa). Today the offer of Orange Energies is a complete solar kit with different kinds of equipment, and in the context of professional activities, one can find some tools like solar Dryer, Solar Mill or a Chicken farm Kit.
WHAT ARE THE NEXT NEWSLETTERS?
We will release Newsletters every 4 months. The next Newsletters will highlight:
- Continuing improving the RESILINK mobile app!
- RESILINK mobile app on Google Play Store!
- Developing the offer recommendation system
- and much more
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