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Public iProjectsApplication of information technologies in Precision Apiculture
This project proposes implementation of precision technologies in the beekeeping that are harmonized with other agricultural activities using existing buildings for indoor wintering. Precision agriculture approach is adapted for beekeeping based on the temperature measurements above the nest of individual bee colonies all year around thus detecting different states of colonies and apiaries enabling rapid reaction by the beekeeper in case of necessity. Several states of a bee colony can be detected by temperature above the nest: swarming, broodless stage, initiation of brood rearing in the winter, start of intensive brood rearing in the spring, broodless stage at the end of the autumn.
Contact: Egils Stalidzans See info | 6 Public
| Application of UASs in agriculture (AUA)
The project aims towards the integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into farm management.
UASs offer high potential for local near-real-time management. It has been demonstrated that UAS could carry multi-spectral cameras and spectrometers. The next step will be the integration of UASs into farm management and the development of business models. Farm management actions supported by UASs may include: crop monitoring, site-specific application, yield prediction, cattle monitoring, pasture management, inspection of farm infrastructure. For these applications DSS algorithms need to be developed based on field trials. Practical application of UASs requires automation of navigation, data analysis, and work flows.
Contact: Robin Gebbers See info | 9 Public
| Application of WFC+UWD in horticulture
The project aims towards the implementation Wide Frame Carrier (gantry-system machine) in combination with system of Underground Watering Dishes (WFC + UWD) into the horticulture.
A general kinematics for designing walking mover of WFC was developed. WFC capable of stepping precisely by UWD and of self-acting motion along and across the field without headlands.
Generally implementation of such machines will allow to producers of vegetables to get out of hard monotonous manual labor on small (to 3 hectares) areas. WFC+UWD is effective at hillside fields, because UWD may be used as a barrier for microterrasing.
Contact: Lyubarsky Anatoly See info | 11 Public
| Master Management Systems for agriculture, forestry, horticulture and aquaculture.
Wing Consult has developed an Internet-based (browser structure) special Master Management System - MMS-Agri™ etc. for agriculture, forestry and horticulture, which is user-friendly and easy to access by all members of staff a. o. through a selective login structure as well as MMS-Aqua™ for aquaculture.
The MMS-Agri™ etc. and MMS-Aqua™ have a built-in mechanism that minimizes the number of inevitable malfunctions. Finally, a good quality, environmental and food safety management systems like the MMS-Agri™ etc. and MMS-Aqua™ secure control thanks to their flow diagrams and routines that are customized to each farmer’s special conditions.
Wing Consult is looking for partners from funding countries in order to fullfil the eligibility criteria for ICT-AGRI call for trans-national projects.
Contact: Claes Kjaer Mathiesen See info | 12 Public
| "INTEGRA - Integrating and collecting data in livestock production management". Key words: quality control, advanced tec
"The proposal would be mainly focused on development of database in important livestock production management (such as italian Grana Padano cheese) starting from the existing database and/or dataset already used for technical assistance to farmers, for studbooks management and for checks on production line provided for industrial applications. Therefore software applications will be developed mainly aimed at statistical quality control by using advanced techniques also derived from time series statistics".
Contact: Andrea Galli See info | 18 Public
| Monitoring temporal and spatial variation change of humidity and salt in soil via wireless sensing networks and managi
Wireless Sensing Networks are new technologies which are on the front burner and can be applied in many areas these days. Data can be collected by using wireless sensing networks from environment interactively. This data is converted to information, evaluated collectively and made changes on it. Salinity in farmlands is an important problem that limits crop yields and affects the productivity of the land. Salinity causes toxicity and mineral nutritional disorders in plants. This ultimately leads to the ruin of the metabolism. As the result of this yield loss in the plant-based production happens and affects both country economy as well as producers’.
In case of insufficient humidity in soil for ideal plant growth, the optimum efficiency is obtained by sprinkling. Particularly in arid and semi-arid climates, sprinkling more than the soil needs causes water table problems which mean salinity problems. Severeness of salinity and seasonal changes in salinity damage plants in different w
Contact: Murat AYDOGDU See info | 19 Public
| Development of automated greenhouse experimental prototype
The goal of the project is development of a multi-robot system for automated greenhouse. The first step is development of a concept and building a small greenhouse model for purposes of the test-bed for a multi-robot system. The first prototype of the multi-robot system will consist of robots doing only one task (i.e. precision sprinkling). These robots will be managed by the multi-agent based management system. At the moment we are building similar system for vacuum cleaning robots in large areas. We are looking for partners willing to contribute in other areas of project.
Contact: Egons Lavendelis See info | 26 Public
| E-services package (PPP Action - pesticides reduction)
The objective of the "e-services package" is to converge to a sharing services platform. Upstream, this will make easier help request services and advices for end users. Downstream, it will ease operation traceability and guarantee of good practices.
This platform will no more grant access to software products offer as mainly proposed today on the market but to E-services offer. In this way, each user will only have access to what he needs, according to the characteristics of his farm or firm. All proposed E-services will be in a first time in relation with "50 % mitigation pesticides" target.
All actors interested could meet during the Smart AgriMatics Conference 2012 (13-14 June in Paris), or use the 'Public Private Partnerships' part of this website (after register) to make partnerships.
Contact: Anaïs Wermeille, ICT-AGRI See info | 29 Public
| Smart Adjustments tools on sprayers (PPP Action - pesticides reduction)
The goal is to develop smart, easy, efficient and open-ended adjustment tools on sprayer machines. These new modular "plug and play" systems, will be more eco-friendly. The use of machinery will be easy to use thanks for example to operator intuitive adjustments or preventive faults detection of machine dysfunctions. Low cost modulated systems will have also to be considered. Innovation improvements will be in favor of impacts reduction both on the environment protection and the health of operator. All interested actors could meet during the Smart AgriMatics 2012 Conference (13-14 June in Paris), or use the 'Public-Private Partnerships' section of this website.
Contact: Anaïs Wermeille, ICT-AGRI See info | 30 Public
| Combined Robotic Modular Platform (PPP Action - pesticides reduction)
It is a machine which proposes to combine multi-actions (ex mechanic/ thermal/ electric chemical …) from a single robotic platform. Indeed, the 50% reduction in the use of pesticides involves the necessity of introducing alternative solutions coupling or not with classical chemical techniques.
It involves a total re-thinking of the current machinery and a re-orientation to new kind of modular tools thanks to robotic advances.
All interested actors could meet during the Smart AgriMatics 2012 Conference (13-14 June in Paris), or use the 'Public-Private Partnerships' section of this website.
Contact: Anaïs Wermeille, ICT-AGRI See info | 31 Public
| "Dodich" - We save the life of the grape growers!
In the vineyards are made several pesticide treatments and the system is based on the use of a tractor. Modern technology offers significant opportunity to protect the operator but the grape producers are always a few meters away from sources of pesticide spraying and certainly they do not extend their life.Current technologies offer the ability to make autonomous vehicles in agriculture, but in fact are uncommon for excessive costs.
The undersigned has developed an autonomous vehicle, in his own vineyard business, at a low cost.This vehicle can do the treatments in the vineyards and during this year the prototype will be tested. In 2012, operations will be developed to ensure that the preparation of mixtures of pesticides takes place automatically, so it will be possible to do the treatments with a simple command given via the web.
(trought the web) The vehicle,after treatment, will be back at the base and reload to complete the work.
Contact: Giorgio Pantano See info | 35 Public
| In-situ field lysimeters for optimizing water and nutrient use efficiency
Irrigation scheduling is the primary tool for improving water use efficiency while minimizing pollution. Lysimeters offer precise data on water fluxes and drainage water quality. The proposed technique utilizes hourly measurements of evapotranspiration from in-situ lysimeters. This tool increases water use efficiency while decreasing agrochemical use and soil contamination.
Contact: Effi Tripler See info | 40 Public
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Contact: PASCHALIS GIANNOULIS See info | 43 Public
| Intelligent Integrated Information Management Platform for Sustainable Crop and Livestock Production Systems
The project will develop and pilot test an intelligent integrated agricultural data resource, control and information monitoring solution prototype for the purpose of cost-optimization and management in crop and livestock farming sectors. The project addresses the incresing data management needs in farms and will provide effective access, storage and reuse of data accross typical borders for advanced guidance and automation. The solution consists of a central information data pool, data and service interface, and client human machine inetrface. An ultimate goal of the project is the integration and standardization of heterogeneous data via new effective innovative solutions for overcoming today's challenges which includes information sources that are today scattered on different manufacturers' equipment, buildings, field, sensors and devices, and internet such as weather data, climate related data, field managent/VRT/GPS, process and building automation, reporting and documentation.
Contact: Robert Owusu See info | 47 Public
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Contact: Robert Owusu See info | 48 Public
| DEVELOPMENT OF A PROTOTYPE OF DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR OPTIMAL IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT (SADGOR)
The main objective of the project is the development of a weather station endowed with real-time automatic data filtering that will permit to determine the evapotranspiration demmand of the crops. The station will be mainly constituted by a Programmable Automation Controller (PAC), which will implement a data filtering algorithym based on the UNE 500540 normative. From these filtered weather data the needed algorithms for calculating the evapotranspiration demmand will be implemented. Moreover, a wireless system for monitoring several sensors of moisture, temperature and salinity of soil will be implemented. The system will transmit the information acquired from sensors to the agroclimatic station. This information will let to calculate - in real time - several parameters related with the crop: soil water availability, salt leaching ratio, nutrients absortion and vegetative growing according to the soil temperature, among others. Crop coefficients for every variety are also determined.
Contact: José Miguel Molina-Martínez See info | 49 Public
| i-spray
In this proposal we will investigate the automation of the spraying process in crops cultivation. More specifically, we will exploit
cameras and other sensors embedded on-board an autonomous or semi-autonomous tractor, to gather information about the status of the field. This information will be processed by a knowledge-based intelligent information system, which will integrate it with previously acquired knowledge regarding the specific field and/or information gathered by the internet or other sources (e.g. meteorological broadcasts) to control the spraying parameters.
Competences required: Experts in agriculture with emphasis on spraying of various crops; experts in instrumentation and media for agriculture; experts in tractor automation; experts in computer vision; experts in signal analysis; experts in decision support systems.
Contact: Prodromos Chatzoglou See info | 51 Public
| Customization and validation of Decision Support System (DSS) for weed control
A Danish DSS for weed control, which are already being customized for selected crops, weeds and conditions in Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Poland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Slovenia and China, is open for collaboration on further developments in existing collaborating countries (e.g. to include more crops, weeds, conditions, facilities) or to initiate customization of this DSS for new countries.
Parts of this DSS may also be integrated with control units in tractor sprayers or with sensor systems that can monitor weed infestations.
Contact: Per Rydahl See info | 65 Public
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