Dr. Jens Knodel
Smart Farming Project Manager
Fraunhofer IESE
Germany

Biography
Dr. Jens Knodel is the head of the research area “Smart Ecosystems” at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He leads research activities in the area of smart ecosystems and software and systems architecture at IESE and is responsible for project management, method development, and technology transfer in research and industry projects. He is as well responsible for the Living Lab “Smart Farming” at Fraunhofer IESE. Jens Knodel has been serving regularly as a Program Committee member in international conferences in the areas of software evolution, software maintenance, and software architecture since 2006. He was the General Chair of the 13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2009). Jens Knodel graduated from the Technical University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2002 with a graduate degree (German “Diploma”) in Computer Science with a focus on Software Engineering. In 2010, he received his PhD from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He is co-authors of more than 50 scientific, peer-reviewed publications in the areas of smart ecosystems, software architecture, software evolution, and smart farming.

Abstract
Data Usage Control in Smart Farming

Software makes agricultural technology smart and data is one of the most valuable assets in Smart Farming, where business-critical, sensitive and personalized data are processed and exchanged continuously. Today, sharing data in interconnected agricultural software systems comes along with a loss of control over the released data. Data usage control, an extension of classic access control, offers an effective and flexible approach for this situation. It allows specifying and enforcing guidelines and policies for regulating the usage of data - after initial access was granted and across system borders. In our living lab Smart Farming we demonstrate this new technology in a Smart Farming scenario. Living Labs at Fraunhofer IESE explore concepts and technologies virtually or as prototypes before they are efficiently transferred to industrial partners. The living lab “Smart Farming” provides an existing lab infrastructure and system prototypes in addition to an agricultural diorama on the scale of 1:32 and allows visualizing, testing and evaluating software engineering concepts and technologies.