The Nostradamus initiative uses digital technologies to focus on food security, sustainability and
agricultural resilience in the EU. Funded by Horizon Europe, the project aligns with key EU
frameworks such as the European Green Deal and the Common Agricultural Policy. The project
has two main goals: first, to create a robust, data-driven foundation to support the EU food
security and self-sufficiency directions, and second, to develop open-source digital applications
using low-code approaches that are specifically designed to tackle the complex challenges of
modern agriculture.
Ensuring European food security and agricultural resilience requires the rapid deployment of
data-driven digital solutions. However, developing complex cyber-physical applications is a
multidisciplinary process that requires the integration and fusion of several data sources, such as
Earth observation (EO), real-time Internet of Things (IoT) streams and cloud-native analytics.
This can present a significant technical challenge for agricultural domain experts. This paper
presents the Nostradamus Low-Code Platform (LCP), which is a core component of a hybrid
Edge-to-Cloud architecture designed to make agricultural application development more
accessible (see Fig. 1). Using the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) approach, the platform
enables citizen developers and domain experts (such as farmers, agronomists, and policymakers)
to develop customised solutions without requiring in-depth programming knowledge. We detail
the use of graphical and textual Domain-specific Languages (DSLs) that facilitate the automated
generation of three application tiers (illustrated in Fig. 1, A–C): a) Edge Components for sensory
acquisition, b) Logic components for cloud-deployed datastream pipelining, supporting
aggregators and filtering, and c) GUI Components for interactive dashboards.
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