Research Project

DEMETER: field data for Smart Agriculture

ABSTRACT
Building an innovative, interoperable platform, based on IoT and Big Data, to support sustainable farming and food production systems.

Where: international
Challenge
​European agriculture still lacks a common repository where data generated by IoT devices can be stored by equipment and production systems.​ Players already use their own proprietary data spaces, leveraging data for decision-making, quality control and monitoring of the production chain. However, these solutions are not interoperable, forcing users to adopt a variety of different systems.​
Approach
The DEMETER project aims to accelerate the spread of smart, data-based solutions for agriculture that can support decision-making and monitoring. For this reason, the beneficiaries are not only farmers, but also service advisors and ICT providers.​ Engineering is the technical coordinator of the project, which involves 60 partner organisations.​ The project has received co-funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme - Contract No. 720714 ​
Solution
DEMETER adopts a human-in-the-loop model that combines human knowledge and expertise with digital information, it focuses on interoperability thanks to Digital Enabler, and employs a variety of technologies: IoT, Earth Observation, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence.​ The DEMETER solution is being demonstrated through 20 pilot projects on more than 5700 farms across Europe, covering a wide spectrum of sub-sectors: arable crops, irrigated crops, fruit production, livestock. In particular, as part of a pilot project in the dairy value chain, we are implementing a decision support system that provides farmers with an integrated view of animal welfare and suggests corrective actions. Including a blockchain-based traceability system that collects data across the supply chain, from production to labelling of the final product.
Results
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