Urban Farmer dApp

Develop a dApp that helps micro urban farms to operate and expand, while making it easy for community members to order produce from them.

Owner/Operator of Living Greens Urban Farm.

25 Year IT veteran, CTO level experience.

Cardano Plutus Pioneer 2nd Cohort.

Functionality

• App to provide system construction information.
• App to provide growing instructions for specific crops, tailored to size of space available.
• App to provide an API to collect data from environmental systems and IOT sensors.
• App to provide an API to collect harvest data.
• App to provide an ML and Human support interface to suggest improvements from environmentals and sensors to improve harvests.
• App to provide a community interface that allows nearby purchasers to find active urban farms in their area and place orders for produce.
• App to provide full food traceability on block chain, automatically.
• App to facilitate payments with ADAPay (when available) between purchaser and farm to support fiat on ramp, as well as for farm to pay for subscription to services.

Demographics

Primary users are small urban farm operators that have or wish to build 10,000 square feet or less of urban, vertical farm to feed their local community within a 20 mile radius of their location.

Action Plan

• We are currently developing the wireframe for the application itself, based upon deep industry knowledge and the expected feature list that is outlined above.

• We will utilize our local college school of design to help us implement our UX/UI. This is an ongoing partnership at our university, and several institutions in our area have successfully utilized this service. The funds requested from this catalyst round will go directly to paying the participating students for their time in developing the UX/UI with our guidance.

• We will build the code necessary to generate an NFT which contains all food traceability requirements on testnet, and integrate it into our app.

• We will build the code necessary to query the testnet blockchain to display food traceability standards. The second portion of the funds requested will go to pay the developer's time to build these tools.

• Future action plan items beyond this point will require additional funding from future catalyst rounds, or other means.

• We will open the beta version of the app to the first ten names on our waitlist. If necessary, we will continue to move down the waitlist until we have 10 active farms. We will add up to 5 additional farms each month until Hydra releases.

• We will monitor for hydra releases, and begin experimenting in testnet for modifying our code to utilize a native token and hydra to build our layer 2 chain.

• We will release the app to the remainder of the waitlist after sufficient testing on layer 2.

• We will seek certification of the app at the highest possible level according to IOG standards.

• We will build the DAO and transfer assets to it.

Roadmap and Milestones

• Wire Frame for application flow will be completed by End of Month January 2022.
• UX design will be completed by End of Month March 2022.
• UX design will be coded into app by End of Month May 2022.
• Implementation of Harvest data as NFT for traceability will be coded into app by End of Month May 2022 and testnet NFTs will be created from live harvest data in our reference farm.

Key Performance Indicators

By End of Month July 2022 We intend to have at least 10 small farms in different regions utilizing the dApp for management of their farms. These initial test users will allow us to further refine the systems experience and tweak the ML algorithms.

By End of Year 2022 we intend to have our native token issued and our stake pool systems operational, with dependency on hydra functionality being available to mainnet. We expect to grow by 5 new farms per month between July and end of year, controlling access to the system via a waiting list until Hydra can be deployed and our paradigm tested in that environment.

By End of Year 2023 we intend to move the source code of the system and management responsibility of the system into a DAO and allow the community to drive the future of the system via democratic action.

Skills Required

We have identified the following technical skills as necessary to the successful development and deployment of our dApp:

• Adobe XD Operation
• React Native Programming
• Python Programming
• Plutus Programming
• Stakepool Operation
• Cardano API access (Blockfrost or Phyrhose)
• IoT Management
• Data Warehousing Operation
• Serverless Infrastructure Management
• AWS SageMaker Operation
• AWS Infrastructure Management

We believe that with over 25 years of IT management from one co-founder, and the entrepreneurship degree and retail management experience of the other co-founder, that we have sufficient business knowledge to successfully operate and hire the remaining development team that we will need as we scale up. We acknowledge that AWS infrastructure does not suffice for true decentralization, and look forward to a future where we can access more decentralized tools that replace the current functionality available at AWS. Our goal will remain that we will decentralize components at the earliest opportunity to do so.

Key Staff

Lloyd Duhon https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloyd-duhon/

Melannie Duhon https://www.linkedin.com/in/melannie-duhon/

Budget Breakdown

Initial funding will go towards UX design and block chain recording of data.

• UX Design: $3500
• Block Chain Code: $1500