Engineering Innovation in
Smart Agriculture
Creation of new products and services for precision agriculture and supply chain traceability.
Approach & Solution
Approach
Agrifood is defined as "the last billion dollars' industry to be digitized" due to the cultural and structural resistances, which prevent the spread of technologies.
Recently, ICT solutions dedicated to the various steps of the supply chain are being created providing considerable optimizations in the individual production blocks, but these solutions are strictly verticalized on specific phases by creating the so-called "application silos" and making it difficult to create value from the information collected in the various steps.
The CiTRACE project aims to overcome the silo-based vision by creating advanced traceability, a meta system capable of enhancing information and optimizing processes and by allowing the digital penetration along the entire supply chain.
Recently, ICT solutions dedicated to the various steps of the supply chain are being created providing considerable optimizations in the individual production blocks, but these solutions are strictly verticalized on specific phases by creating the so-called "application silos" and making it difficult to create value from the information collected in the various steps.
The CiTRACE project aims to overcome the silo-based vision by creating advanced traceability, a meta system capable of enhancing information and optimizing processes and by allowing the digital penetration along the entire supply chain.
Solution
In CiTRACE the data are being processed through Big Data Analytics applications thanks to the integration of the services offered by the ALIDA platform.
The project solution is also aligned with European specifications for secure data scabbing and cloud data management such as IDSA and Gaia-X, thanks to the use of the TRUE Connector component.
Engineering evolves the technological building blocks of the Digital Enabler and develops the powered-by-FIWARE CiTRACE Digital Platform for the collection, harmonization and visualization of data generated by the different and heterogeneous sources involved in the phases of the supply chain. The project has been funded with PON Funds "Enterprises and competitiveness" 2014-2020 ERDF and the Fund for sustainable growth.
The project solution is also aligned with European specifications for secure data scabbing and cloud data management such as IDSA and Gaia-X, thanks to the use of the TRUE Connector component.
Engineering evolves the technological building blocks of the Digital Enabler and develops the powered-by-FIWARE CiTRACE Digital Platform for the collection, harmonization and visualization of data generated by the different and heterogeneous sources involved in the phases of the supply chain. The project has been funded with PON Funds "Enterprises and competitiveness" 2014-2020 ERDF and the Fund for sustainable growth.
Results
Decision Support Systems for steps optimization
Data and Service Management tools
Blockchain solutions to make data immutable
Monitoring and control dashboards for assessing the performance of the supply chain
High added value services such as Optimal Distribution Strategy and Product Passport
Project value
Cost cutting
Innovation
Process performance
Enabling Technologies
Cloud
IoT
AI Advanced Analytics
Engineering proprietary products & other technologies
Digital Enabler
Project Team
Research & Innovation