Smart Agriculture Platform for AI-Powered Crop Disease Detection, Farmer Collaboration & Agricultural Commerce
AgriLink is a smart agriculture platform designed to help farmers detect crop diseases using artificial intelligence, share disease detections with nearby farmers, receive early warnings, and participate in a connected agricultural marketplace.
The core idea is:
Detect. Share. Warn. Protect.
- 🎯 Project Vision
- 🚨 Core Concept
- ✨ Key Features
- 🌾 Farmer Management
- 🛒 Agricultural Marketplace
- 🗺️ Farmer Discovery
- 💬 Communication
- 🛠️ Agricultural Services
- 🌦️ Weather
- 🔐 Authentication & Authorization
- 👨💼 Administration
- ⭐ Reviews
- 🏗️ System Architecture
- 🧰 Technology Stack
- 🐳 Deployment Architecture
- ⚙️ DevOps Architecture
- 📊 Monitoring & Observability
- 🛡️ Security
- 🧪 Testing Strategy
- 📁 Project Structure
- 🚀 Development Roadmap
- 🧭 Development Philosophy
- 📚 Documentation
- 🎓 Portfolio Objectives
- 🌱 Future Vision
- 📌 Project Status
- 👨💻 Author
- ⭐ Vision
Agricultural diseases can spread rapidly while farmers may have limited access to early information about outbreaks in their surrounding areas.
AgriLink aims to create a connected agricultural ecosystem where farmers can:
- 🔬 Detect crop diseases using AI
- 📢 Share disease detections with nearby farmers
- 📍 Receive localized disease alerts
- 🗺️ Discover farmers and agricultural activity around them
- 🌾 Manage crops
- 🛒 Buy and sell agricultural products
- 🤝 Communicate with farmers and buyers
- 🌦️ Access weather information and agricultural recommendations
- 🛠️ Discover and offer agricultural services
The long-term objective is to transform individual disease detection into a community-based agricultural early-warning system.
The most important workflow in AgriLink is the disease detection and sharing system.
FARMER
│
▼
Upload Crop Image
│
▼
┌──────────────┐
│ AI MODEL │
└──────┬───────┘
│
▼
Disease Detection
│
┌────────┴────────┐
│ │
PRIVATE SHARE
│ │
▼ ▼
Detection History Disease Alert
│
▼
Nearby Farmers
│
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Early Warning
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Crop Protection
The core value of AgriLink is not simply detecting a disease.
The real objective is to transform a single farmer's detection into useful localized information for other farmers who may be at risk.
Individual Detection
↓
Disease Identification
↓
Farmer Chooses to Share
↓
Geographic Filtering
↓
Nearby Farmers
↓
Disease Alert
↓
Early Action
↓
Reduced Crop Risk
Farmers can submit crop images for AI-powered analysis.
Upload Image
↓
Preview Image
↓
Select Crop
↓
AI Analysis
↓
Disease Prediction
↓
Confidence Score
↓
Symptoms & Recommendations
Planned capabilities:
- Image upload and preview
- Image validation
- Crop selection
- AI inference
- Disease classification
- Confidence score
- Disease information
- Recommended actions
- Detection history
- Detection details
- Delete detection history
This is the core differentiating feature of AgriLink.
After receiving a detection result, a farmer can choose whether to share it with nearby farmers.
Farmer A
│
▼
Disease Detection
│
▼
Share Detection
│
▼
Find Nearby Farmers
│
├───────────────┐
▼ ▼
Farmer B Farmer C
│ │
└───────┬───────┘
▼
Disease Alert
│
▼
Early Warning
Features include:
- Share or keep detections private
- Geographic alert radius
- Nearby farmer detection
- Crop-aware alerts
- Disease severity
- Disease notifications
- Disease map
- Approximate location protection
AgriLink is designed so that the exact location of the reporting farmer is not unnecessarily exposed.
Farmers have their own workspace for managing agricultural activities.
- Crop statistics
- Product statistics
- Orders
- Disease detections
- Nearby disease alerts
- Notifications
- Recent activity
- Personal information
- Profile image
- Farm information
- Location
- Main crops
- Farm size
- Farming information
Farmers can:
- Add crops
- View crops
- View crop details
- Update crops
- Delete crops
AgriLink provides a marketplace where farmers can offer agricultural products and buyers can discover and purchase them.
Each product can contain:
- Name
- Description
- Price
- Quantity
- Unit
- Category
- Images
- Farmer
- Location
- Availability
- Product browsing
- Search
- Filtering
- Sorting
- Product details
- Farmer information
- Order creation
PENDING
│
├──────────────► REJECTED
│
▼
ACCEPTED
│
▼
PROCESSING
│
▼
READY
│
▼
COMPLETED
Farmers can discover other farmers through both list-based and map-based interfaces.
Farmer cards can display:
- Profile image
- Farmer name
- Location
- Main crops
- Rating
- Agricultural services
Users can:
- Search farmers
- Filter by crop
- Filter by rating
- Filter by distance
- View farmer details
- Discover nearby agricultural activity
This geographic functionality also supports the disease-sharing system.
AgriLink will provide direct communication between platform users.
Initial communication model:
Buyer ↔ Farmer
Planned capabilities:
- Conversations
- Messages
- Read/unread state
- Message timestamps
- Notifications
- Real-time communication
Future versions may extend communication to:
Farmer ↔ Farmer
Farmer ↔ Buyer
Farmer Groups
Farmers can offer agricultural services through the platform.
Examples:
- Tractor rental
- Harvesting
- Irrigation
- Agricultural transportation
- Equipment rental
- Agricultural consulting
A service can contain:
- Title
- Description
- Category
- Price
- Location
- Availability
- Farmer
AgriLink will provide location-aware weather information with an agricultural focus.
Potential information includes:
- Current temperature
- Humidity
- Rain probability
- Wind
- Forecast
- Agricultural recommendations
AgriLink uses role-based authentication and authorization.
USER
│
├── FARMER
│
└── ADMIN
Authentication includes:
- Account registration
- Email/code verification
- Account activation
- Login
- JWT authentication
- Refresh tokens
- Logout
- Protected routes
- Role-based authorization
- Resource ownership validation
Administrators will have access to a dedicated management platform.
Admin Dashboard
│
├── Users
├── Farmers
├── Products
├── Orders
├── Disease Alerts
├── Reviews
├── Services
├── Reports
├── Contact Messages
├── Notifications
└── Audit Logs
Reviews are connected to completed marketplace transactions.
Order
│
▼
COMPLETED
│
▼
Buyer can submit review
│
├── Rating
└── Comment
This prevents arbitrary reviews and keeps the reputation system connected to actual marketplace transactions.
AgriLink follows a service-oriented architecture.
USERS
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┌─────────────┐
│ NGINX │
│ Reverse │
│ Proxy / TLS │
└──────┬──────┘
│
┌─────────────┼─────────────┐
│ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼
FRONTEND SPRING BOOT FASTAPI
Angular Backend AI Service
│
┌─────────────┼─────────────┐
│ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼
PostgreSQL Redis Storage
│
▼
Application Data
│
┌─────┴───────────────┐
│ │
▼ ▼
Farmer Data Disease Data
│
▼
Disease Alerts
│
▼
Nearby Farmers
- Angular
- TypeScript
- Responsive UI
- Map integration
- REST API integration
- Java 17
- Spring Boot
- Spring Security
- REST API
- JWT
- PostgreSQL
- Python
- FastAPI
- TensorFlow
- Machine Learning / Deep Learning
- Image classification
- Linux
- Docker
- Docker Compose
- Ansible
- Nginx
- VirtualBox
- Local Virtual Machines
- GitHub Actions
- Automated testing
- Docker image builds
- Security scanning
- Automated deployment
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Application metrics
- Infrastructure metrics
- Centralized logging
- Application logs
- Infrastructure logs
- Security and audit logs
AgriLink is designed to run on a self-hosted virtualized environment rather than depending on expensive cloud infrastructure.
Physical Machine
│
▼
VirtualBox
│
├── VM01 — AgriLink Application
│ ├── Nginx
│ ├── Angular
│ ├── Spring Boot
│ └── FastAPI
│
├── VM02 — Data Services
│ ├── PostgreSQL
│ └── Redis
│
└── VM03 — Monitoring
├── Prometheus
├── Grafana
└── Logging
The final number and distribution of VMs will depend on available hardware resources.
The infrastructure is intended to be reproducible and automated.
GitHub
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▼
GitHub Actions
│
┌────────┼────────┐
▼ ▼ ▼
Test Build Security
│ │ │
└────────┼────────┘
▼
Docker Images
│
▼
Ansible
│
▼
Local VMs
│
▼
Nginx
│
▼
AgriLink
The production-style environment will include monitoring for both the application and infrastructure.
- CPU usage
- Memory usage
- Disk usage
- Network usage
- VM health
- Container health
- Request count
- Response time
- HTTP errors
- API availability
- AI service performance
- Database performance
Services
│
▼
Prometheus
│
▼
Grafana
│
├── Infrastructure Dashboard
├── Backend Dashboard
├── AI Dashboard
└── Application Health
Security is a major component of AgriLink's architecture.
- Password hashing
- JWT security
- Role-based access control
- Input validation
- File upload validation
- CORS configuration
- Rate limiting
- Security headers
- Resource ownership checks
- HTTPS/TLS
- Firewall configuration
- Network segmentation
- SSH hardening
- Least-privilege principles
- Secrets management
- Container security
- Dependency scanning
- Secret scanning
- Static security analysis
- Container vulnerability scanning
- Security testing
- Audit logging
Testing will be integrated throughout the development lifecycle.
- Unit tests
- Service tests
- Controller tests
- Repository tests
- Integration tests
- Security tests
- Component tests
- Form tests
- Authentication tests
- End-to-end tests
- API tests
- Image validation tests
- Prediction tests
- Model evaluation
- Error handling
- Docker health checks
- Deployment verification
- Ansible idempotency testing
AgriLink/
│
├── frontend/
├── backend/
├── ai-service/
│
├── infrastructure/
│ ├── docker/
│ ├── ansible/
│ ├── nginx/
│ ├── dns/
│ └── monitoring/
│
├── tests/
│
├── docs/
│ ├── architecture/
│ ├── api/
│ ├── database/
│ ├── ai/
│ ├── features/
│ ├── security/
│ ├── deployment/
│ ├── monitoring/
│ └── testing/
│
├── .github/
│ └── workflows/
│
├── docker-compose.yml
├── README.md
├── SECURITY.md
└── .gitignore
- Define system architecture
- Design database
- Define project structure
- Define API structure
- Create documentation structure
- Define Git workflow
📄 Architecture Documentation 📄 Database Documentation
- Registration
- Verification using code
- Account activation
- Location registration
- Login
- Fix authentication issues
- JWT implementation/review
- Refresh tokens
- Role-based access control
- Farmer dashboard
- Farmer profile
- Profile image upload
- Crop CRUD
- Detection history interface
- Product CRUD
- Order management
- Notifications
- Settings
- Home page
- Disease detection entry point
- Marketplace
- Product details
- Farmer list
- Farmer map
- Farmer details
- Contact
- Admin dashboard
- User management
- Farmer management
- Product management
- Order management
- Reports
- Notifications
- Settings
- Admin profile
📄 Application Architecture 📄 Authentication Documentation 📄 API Documentation
This phase comes before the DevOps phase because AI disease detection is one of the fundamental capabilities of AgriLink.
- Image upload
- Image preview
- Image validation
- Crop selection
- AI API
- Disease prediction
- Confidence score
- Disease information
- Symptoms
- Recommendations
- Detection result page
- Detection history
- Detection details
- Delete detection
- FastAPI service
- TensorFlow model
- Model inference pipeline
- Input preprocessing
- Output validation
- Error handling
- Model evaluation
- Improve AI model
📄 AI Architecture 📄 AI Model Documentation 📄 Disease Detection Documentation
This is the core differentiating feature of AgriLink.
- Share detection
- Keep detection private
- Sharing permissions
- Disease severity
- Geographic sharing radius
- Privacy protection
- Find nearby farmers
- Geographic filtering
- Crop filtering
- Distance filtering
- Disease-aware filtering
- Disease alert generation
- Nearby farmer notifications
- Disease alert history
- Disease alert map
- Crop-specific alerts
- Alert severity
📄 Disease Sharing Architecture 📄 Early Warning System 📄 Location & Privacy
- Farmer list
- Farmer cards
- Farmer details
- Interactive farmer map
- Nearby farmers
- Search
- Filters
- Farmer crops
- Farmer services
- Farmer ratings
📄 Farmer Network Documentation
- Product creation
- Product details
- Product update
- Product deletion
- Product search
- Product filtering
- Product categories
- Product images
- Create order
- View orders
- Order details
- Accept order
- Reject order
- Update order status
- Complete order
- Review completed orders
- Rating
- Comment
- Farmer rating calculation
- Review moderation
📄 Marketplace Documentation 📄 Order Management 📄 Reviews Documentation
- Buyer ↔ Farmer chat
- Farmer ↔ Farmer chat
- Conversation list
- Message history
- Read/unread status
- Notifications
- Real-time messaging
- Service creation
- Service listing
- Service details
- Service categories
- Search
- Filters
- Farmer service management
📄 Communication Documentation 📄 Agricultural Services
- Current weather
- Forecast
- Humidity
- Rain probability
- Wind
- Location-aware weather
- Agricultural recommendations
- Contact form
- Admin contact management
- Contact notifications
📄 Weather Documentation 📄 Contact System
- Admin dashboard
- User management
- Farmer management
- Product management
- Order management
- Disease alert management
- Reports
- Review moderation
- Service management
- Contact management
- Notifications
- Audit logs
📄 Admin Documentation 📄 Audit Logging
- Unit tests
- Service tests
- Controller tests
- Repository tests
- Integration tests
- Security tests
- Component tests
- Form tests
- Authentication tests
- E2E tests
- API tests
- Image validation tests
- Prediction tests
- Model evaluation
- Error handling
- Docker health checks
- Deployment verification
- Ansible idempotency tests
- Dockerfiles
- Frontend container
- Backend container
- AI container
- Nginx container
- Docker Compose
- Health checks
- Container networking
- Volumes
- VirtualBox VMs
- Linux server configuration
- Network configuration
- DNS
-
AgriLink.local - Firewall
- Ansible inventory
- Ansible roles
- Docker installation
- Application deployment
- Nginx configuration
- DNS configuration
- Automated provisioning
📄 Docker Documentation 📄 Ansible Documentation 📄 Local Infrastructure 📄 DNS Documentation 📄 Nginx Documentation
- CI pipeline
- Frontend testing
- Backend testing
- AI testing
- Docker builds
- Security scanning
- Deployment automation
- Deployment verification
Git Push
↓
GitHub Actions
↓
Lint → Test → Security Scan
↓
Docker Build
↓
Deploy
↓
Health Check
- Prometheus
- Node metrics
- Container metrics
- Backend metrics
- AI metrics
- Database metrics
- Application health
- Grafana
- Infrastructure dashboard
- Backend dashboard
- AI dashboard
- Application dashboard
- Application logs
- Nginx logs
- Container logs
- Security logs
- Audit logs
- Centralized logging
📄 Monitoring Documentation 📄 Prometheus Documentation 📄 Grafana Documentation 📄 Logging Documentation
- Authentication hardening
- Authorization review
- Input validation
- File upload security
- API security
- Rate limiting
- Security headers
- HTTPS/TLS
- Firewall
- Network segmentation
- SSH hardening
- Secrets management
- Container security
- Least privilege
- Dependency scanning
- Secret scanning
- SAST
- Container vulnerability scanning
- Security testing
- Audit logging
- Threat modeling
- OWASP review
📄 Security Documentation 📄 Threat Model 📄 OWASP Security Review 📄 Secrets Management
Each major feature should follow:
Design
↓
Implementation
↓
Testing
↓
Security Review
↓
Documentation
↓
Git Commit
Documentation should be created alongside implementation rather than being postponed until the end of the project.
- Security Documentation
- Authentication
- Location & Privacy
- Threat Model
- OWASP Review
- Secrets Management
- Audit Logging
- Farmer Network
- Marketplace
- Orders
- Reviews
- Communication
- Agricultural Services
- Weather
- Contact
- Administration
AgriLink is designed as a full-stack engineering, AI, cybersecurity, DevOps, and infrastructure project demonstrating experience across:
AGRILINK
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┌───────────────┼────────────────┐
│ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼
Software Artificial DevOps
Engineering Intelligence
│ │ │
├── Angular ├── Python ├── Docker
├── Spring ├── FastAPI ├── Ansible
├── REST API ├── TensorFlow ├── CI/CD
└── PostgreSQL └── ML └── Linux
│
┌───────────────┼────────────────┐
▼ ▼ ▼
Networking Security Observability
│ │ │
├── DNS ├── HTTPS ├── Prometheus
├── Nginx ├── RBAC ├── Grafana
└── VMs ├── Auditing └── Logging
└── DevSecOps
The objective is not simply to create a web application, but to demonstrate the ability to:
- Design a complete software system
- Develop a modern full-stack application
- Integrate artificial intelligence
- Build an AI-powered agricultural workflow
- Design location-aware features
- Implement secure authentication and authorization
- Containerize applications
- Automate infrastructure
- Build CI/CD pipelines
- Monitor applications and infrastructure
- Implement security and DevSecOps practices
- Document a production-style system
Potential future improvements include:
- Disease outbreak heatmaps
- Advanced disease prediction
- Historical disease analysis
- Crop-specific risk prediction
- Weather-based disease risk prediction
- IoT sensor integration
- Soil monitoring
- Smart irrigation
- Advanced agricultural recommendations
- Mobile application
- Regional disease trend analysis
🚧 Active Development
AgriLink is currently under active development.
Features listed in the roadmap are implemented progressively and may not all be available in the current version.
Wael Balhoudi
AgriLink is developed as a portfolio project combining:
- Full-Stack Development
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- DevOps
- Cloud & Infrastructure Concepts
- System Administration
- Networking
AgriLink connects farmers, intelligence, and information to help protect crops before problems become outbreaks.