foodie project expo 2015

Introduction to the FOODIE Project, its scope and activities, first results achieved.

FOODIE Event – EXPO Milano 2015 (Milan, 05 October 2015)

Simona Mincione, ENCO

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Grant agreement no: 621074

CIP-ICT-PSP-2013-7 Pilot Type B

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Contents 1. Project ID

2. Setting the Scene

3. FOODIE Objectives

4. FOODIE Benefits

5. FOODIE service Platform Hub and Users


FOODIE (Farm-Oriented Open Data in Europe) is a co-funded research project within the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) programme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

The project is dedicated to the use and promotion of open data for agricultural applications.

Total cost: € 5,921,971.00

EU contribution: € 2,960,985.00

Execution: from 01/03/2014 to 28/02/2017

Duration: 36 months

1. Project ID


FOODIE aims at enabling in an easy manner the (re)use of open data in the agricultural domain in order to create new applications that provide added value to different stakeholder groups.

FOODIE focuses on agricultural applications exemplified by three main application pilots:

• Pilot 1: Precision Viticulture (Spain)

• Pilot 2: Open Data for Strategic and Tactical planning (Czech Republic)

• Pilot 3: Technology allows integration of logistics via service providers and farm management including traceability (Germany)

1. Project ID


The FOODIE consortium: 12 organisations from 7 countries. • Industrial partners: ATOS (Spain), SERESCO (Spain)

• Academia & Research: WIRELESSINFO (Czech Republic), CTIC (Spain), PSNC (Poland), TDF (Latvia)

• SMEs and End users: PROGIS (Austria), MJM LITOVEL (Czech Republic), BODEGAS TERRAS GAUDA (Spain), NETCAD (Turkey), ENCO (Italy), CONSORZIO BIM (Italy)

1. Project ID


Italian Company / Founded in 1987 Offices in Naples, Brussels, Rio de Janeiro

Mission: consultancy and business development

Wide Experience in EU funded Projects Specialised in communication and dissemination strategies as well as in business

and exploitation planning.

Main areas: environmental management, agro-food sector, logistics, waste, biofuels

Project Coordinator of the H2020-WASTE 4C-2014 Project SMART GROUND

Project Partner in the H2020-LCE-11-2015 Project WASTE2FUELS

Roles in the FOODIE Project Leader of the task 6.2– Dissemination

Participation in the exploitation, business modelling, sustainability & transferability tasks

Participation in training task: development of training contents related to Market Analysis and Agrometeorological information

1. Project ID - ENCO


Building an open and interoperable agricultural specialized platform hub on the cloud

for the management of spatial and non-spatial data relevant for farming production

for discovery of spatial and non-spatial agriculture related data from heterogeneous sources

integration of existing and valuable European open datasets related to agriculture

data publication and data linking of external agriculture data sources contributed by different public and private stakeholders

allowing to provide specific and high-value applications and services for the support in the planning and decision-making processes of different stakeholders groups related to the agricultural and environmental domains.

2. FOODIE Objectives


What challenges does agriculture face today?

3. Setting the scene

To assure a safety and sustainable

supply

Keep costs under control

Increased regulation to limit the

environmental impact

Biodiversity

Erosion, desertification,

chemical pollution and water shortages

In this context information and communication technologies (ICT) can serve as a way to help farmers make informed decisions and maximise yields from their resources. FOODIE will provide agri-food stakeholders with a cloud-based platform offering agricultural services based on open data.



Agriculture requires collection, storage, sharing and analysis of large quantities of spatially and non-spatially referenced data.

Necessary information is not always available or easily accessible. Farmers need to use different tools to manage monitoring and data acquisition on‐line in the field. They need to analyse information related to subsidies, and to communicate with tax offices, product resellers etc.

Modern agriculture has a major impact on the environment while damaging biodiversity. Unless they are sustainably managed, farms and pastures can cause erosion, desertification, chemical pollution and water shortages. These risks need to be monitored and managed.



Current situation



Future situation


Macroeconomic benefits:

Increased value of the farmers land

Increased value for the entire country

Fundament for local carbon management and funding

Better living standards

More sustainable agriculture

Investors benefit due to better information

Cooperation between farmers and scientists

Banks and insurance will be integrated

Seeds-, fertilizer-, and food-chain integration

Drives to an eco-social market economy

4. FOODIE Benefits


Microeconomic benefits:

Precise size and location of fields

Planning, documentation and traceability

Nutrient- and carbon balance

Cost calculation

Integrate local know how

Logistics – planning for the entire chain

Meteorology data for better decisions

Soil moisture data for better decisions

Reduced risks due to better integral planning

Farmers integration in environmental caretaking

4. FOODIE Benefits


FOODIE as a SERVICE:

• The platform will be used by advisors as their advisory service tool.

• For farmers it will offer a simple data entry tool to do business calculations, nutrient balance, carbon balances or build up new services with labs in background that support soil data, manure data, feed data and disseminate the worked out datasets via the FOODIE platform.

• European Union Policy Context: harmonization, interoperability and data management and sharing is a key enabler for EU environmental and agricultural policies and activities.

• Guarantee seamless access to different groups of stakeholders to different observation technologies and different data.

4. FOODIE Benefits


5. FOODIE service platform hub and users

Different groups of users will use FOODIE service platform hub in different ways: Farmers will use final applications based on FOODIE services. Thus, standard usage

will be to use FOODIE platform on the base of SaaS model Public sector will be able to access relevant information from their application

through standardised interfaces (OGC services, API) Researchers will be able to access relevant information from their application trough

standardised interfaces (OGC services, API) or use directly analytical tools on FOODIE platform

ICT developers will access information in repositories by possible ways:

• Using FOODIE services and APIs to develop new applications and directly deploy them on FOODIE infrastructure

• Using FOODIE APIs to integrate their external infrastructure with FOODIE service platform


One platform for all the most common tasks

• Production planning

• Production monitoring, alerting and analyses

• Subsidies management

• Environmental burden monitoring

Ownership of farmer’s data

• Farmer’s data are private and sensitive data

• Remains farmer’s property

Modularity

• Customizable and scalable platform



Control panel

Facilitates the addition, removal an configuration of widgets

Expansible panel with widget configuration options

Interconnected widgets




Treatment attribute

Value

Intervention type

Herbicide application

Status ongoing

Intervention start

2015-04-22

Supervisor Mr. Parker, senior manager, phone +32

Treatment quantity

70 litres

Application width

25 meters

Form of treatment

Application machine

Product xxx

… …


Macro level, which includes management of external information (for example about market, subsidies system, weather prediction, global market and traceability systems);

Farm level, which includes for example economical systems, crop rotation, decision supporting system;

Field (micro) level including precision farming, collection of information about traceability and in the future also robotics.

Knowledge management = three interrelated levels:



Strategic Decision

Tactical Decision

Operational Decision

Synergy between information flow and decision level



Cloud deploying of basic and standardized services , allowing

Decreasing not only deploying costs but also production and maintenance costs.

Making easier integration and realize the vision of a “network of data-hubs”, sharing data and services to provide a new data exploitation ecosystem where data is enriched by composition.

Easily discoverability and composability of services

Data and services deployed and published by FOODIE - based on common and widely used standards - will be publicly available enabling thus the discovery by end users/third party companies and reuse of them stand-alone or by composition with other services to provide a richer or a particular solution.

“Pay as you go” paradigm

Services or data published by FOODIE can be free or non- free.

For instance, FOODIE will provide for free a global agriculture sector balanced scorecard and a non-free repository where key indicators for the agriculture sector may be obtained and combined by all stakeholders to make their own balanced scorecard.

This paradigm will enable third parties as for instance consultancy companies to sell consultancy services (reports, etc.) on top of FOODIE information.

6. Innovative aspects


Reward mechanisms for data sharing

FOODIE will promote participation of stakeholders and end users (high value data owners) in terms of “the more information you provide to the hub, the more data and services for free you will enjoy”.

Clear Return of Investment (ROI) for the end user

Reduction of costs are a strategic pillar of most SMEs but also large number of companies in the agricultural domain.

For instance, FOODIE services will include a simulator which calculates, asking a few questions about a crop, reduction of costs by rationalizing the use of fertilizers, water, energy, etc. thus quickly amortizing the cost of the service.

Multi-device/multiplatform/multipurpose front-ends

FOODIE will include mechanisms allowing users to exploit information and services by means of graphical and intuitive interfaces.

6. Innovative aspects

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Grant agreement no: 621074

CIP-ICT-PSP-2013-7 Pilot Type B FOODIE Event – EXPO Milano 2015 (Milan, 05 October 2015)

The FOODIE Spanish Pilot

Simona Mincione, ENCO Content by Ismael Suárez Cerezo, SERESCO


Contents

1. Objectives & Means

2. Location, Team & Tasks

3. Stakeholders

4. Status and Execution Progress

5. Status & Future


Precision Viticulture (PV) – An important concept on the wine-growing sector worldwide.

The main objectives are: The appropriate management of the inherent variability of crops

An increase in economic benefits

A reduction of environmental impact

Main strategies, which provide significant benefits: Variable-rate application (VRA) of inputs

Selective harvesting at parcel level

Crucial aspects for vineyards: Differentiation of grape qualities at harvest time

Yield prediction

Prevention of pests – by algorithms

Spanish Pilot – Objectives


The zoning of the parcels will allow us to deepen the understanding of the spatial variability, the differences between parcels and their qualitative possibilities.

The plant vigour analysis by vegetation indices, the surface reflectance acquired by satellite and the deployment of a network of sensors, will provide crucial data for proper vineyard management such as the nutritional status and climatic conditions, which would help to optimize tasks such as phytosanitary treatments or nutrient supply needed for each parcel.

Spanish Pilot – Means


• Spatial variability

Refers to the identification and measuring of variables, such as land features or general topography, moisture levels present in the soil, soil nutrient levels - including nitrogen, potassium, and magnesium, as well as soil pH levels, crop yields, and more.

• Site-specific treatments

The application of different rates of seed, fertilizer, or agrochemicals to soil or plants in different parts of a field, according to need.

Spanish Pilot – Means


The pilot is taking place in Spain, in the region of Galicia, where Terras Gauda, a vine producer, has 160 ha. (roughly 400 acres). The total extension being part of the project will amount 150 acres.

Spanish Pilot – Location


Spanish Company / Founded in 1969 / Over 500 employees Offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Asturias, Galicia, Portugal, Ecuador, Costa Rica

Mission: consultancy and development of software solutions and provision of services in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Wide Experience in the Agricultural Sector Integrated Management System for the Ministry of Rural Environment of the Xunta de

Galicia

WebPAC and EEOP, web applications that manage subsidies related to the rural environment (FEAGA and FEADER aids)

Application for livestock health control for the Ministry of Rural Environment of the Principality of Asturias and Castile-Leon

Roles in the Project Leader of the WP5 – Pilots’ Preparation, Execution and Evaluation

Technical developments in the Spanish Pilot

Participation in technical tasks: platform specification, services integration, data analysis, dissemination and exploitation activities

Spanish Pilot – SERESCO


Spanish Company / Founded in 1990 Location in Galicia

Mission: production of white vines with native varieties, number one in volume in the Protected Designation of Origin ”Rias Baixas”.

Currently sells 1.5 million bottles of wine annually in over 50 national and international markets on the five continents

Expertise and Research ISO 9001 quality certification for the cultivation and harvesting activities of

vineyards

An experienced research team that has obtained three patents related to different wines.

Roles in the Project Provision of 60 hectares of vineyards for the Spanish Pilot

Definition of requirements, design of management zones, analysis of results, and oenological expertise for the Spanish Pilot

Spanish Pilot – Terras Gauda


Spanish Pilot Team – SERESCO & Terras Gauda

Spanish Pilot – The Team

Antonio Cristina

Rodolfo

Emilio Ismael


Terras Gauda vineyards & Emilio inspecting the grapes

Spanish Pilot – The Team


1) Initial zoning of the parcels, based on known geo-climatic and topographical information.

2) Selection, installation and management of sensors and monitors, VRA equipment and machinery.

3) Quantification and evaluation of within-field variability.

4) Measures of final grape production and wine quality, depending on the initial zoning.

5) Zoning review in accordance with the results.

Spanish Pilot – Tasks


Sensors installation in Terras Gauda’s Vineyards

Installation and geo-positioning of the weather station (including

rain and wind speed sensors)

Spanish Pilot – Execution Progress


Installation of one of the motes including the following sensors:

• Temperature of the air

• Humidity of the air

• Temperature in the foliage

• Moisture on foliage

• Leaf wetness

• Soil temperature



Situation of these sensors in the plots



Spanish Pilot – Mobile App


Status:

Requirements analysis completed

Sensor and weather stations in operation

Beginning of database population

Registration and visual representation of information

Future Developments:

Completion of the user interface

End-Users Trainning

Evaluation and recommendations for the vineyards

Spanish Pilot – Status & Future


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This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Commission under grant agreement no. 621074

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