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Related projects

Below you can find a list of projects and activities related to the smart farming area. Some of these are anchored in the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, others are not.

Project / activity

Type

Short description

EIP-Agri - Precision Farming

EIP focus group

EIP focus group. Main challenge: How to organise the data capture and processing to mainstream the application of precision farming for an optimisation of inputs and yield

European Technology Platform Food for Life

ETP

An ETP visioning to step-change the innovation power and impact of the European food industry to the benefit of a sustainable society.

ICT Agri 1, ICT Agri

ERA NET

ICT-AGRI is a cross-thematic ERA-NET spanning three FP7 themes: Agriculture and food supply; Environment and climate; and Information and Communication Technology. The overall goal of ICT-AGRI is to strengthen the European Research Area and develop a common European research agenda concerning ICT and robotics in agriculture

TP Organics

ETP

TP Organics is the European Technology Platform for organic food and farming research. It integrates views of the organic sector and civil society to represent a broad perspective on research and development priorities that can leverage organic food and farming’s potential

SmartAgriFood

FP7 project

The Smart-AgriFood project is part of the Future Internet Public-Private FIWARE based) Partnership (FI-PPP) program and addresses Farm management, agrilogistics and food awareness as a use case for this.

FIspace

FP7 project (FIWARE based)

Flspace is a B2B collaboration platform. It works like a social network, like LinkedIn or Facebook. Once registered, contacting affiliates is simple, secure and easy. Focused on agricultur

FIWARE project: FRACTALS

FP7 project

3rd phase accelerator, focused on agriculture

FINISH

FP7 project

3rd phase accelerator, focused on agriculture

EFFIDRIP

FP7 project

Kit of web platform + dataacquisition hardware (IoT modules) for allowing SME offer services of smart irrigation supervision and control

agriXchange

FP7 project

agriXchange is an EU-funded coordination and support action to setup a network for developing a system for common data exchange in the agricultural sector

sigAGROasesor

LIFE project

sigAGROasesor aims to develop and refine a series of DSTs for extensive agriculture. A web platform has been developed, offering on-line services to farmers, aiming at allowing them to work more efficiently, effectively and competitively yet always in line with environmental and social sustainability.

EU-PLF

FP7 project

EU-PLF is an FP7 project funded by the European Union that aims to translate research results for PLF into a practical blueprint that benefits the animal, farmer, environment and consumer.  It is a four-year project that began in November 2012 and is executed by 21 research, industrial and business partners

ALL-SMARTPIGS

FP7 project

The EU funded ALL-SMART-PIGS was an EU-funded project aiming at demonstrating the viability of smart farming technologies in European pig farming

IrriSens (RTA201300045-C04

INIA (Spanis h Ministr y of Agric.)

Focuses in the unmanned interpretation of sensor data (IoT) in the context of irrigation and their usage in automated supervision and control

FutureFarm

FP7 project

Meeting the challenges of the farm of tomorrow by integrating Farm Management Information Systems to support real-time management decisions and compliance to standards

SirriMed

FP7 project

Development and assessment of irrigation management tools and services for rational irrigation management

OpIris

FP7 project

Optimum scheduling of irrigation in high value crops via a cloud based application servise

WaterInnEU

H2020

WaterInn EU aiming to create a marketplace to enhance the exploitation of EU funded ICT models, tools, protocols and policy briefs related to water and to establish suitable conditions for new market opportunities based on these offerings.

SmartAkis

H2020

The project aims at setting up a self-sustainable Thematic Network on Smart Farming Technology designed for the effective exchange between research, industry, extension and the farming community in order to disseminate direct applicable research and commercial solutions and capture grassroots level needs and innovative ideas. Smart Farming Technology (SFT) encompasses Farm Management Information Systems, Precision Agriculture and Agriculture automation and robotics.

SmartLaw

H2020

The project is aimed to be a stepping stone towards a more ambitious research proposal (to be submitted to the European Research Council (ERC) in 2017) aimed at developing the regulatory instruments needed to make the entire European agricultural sector resilient to the impacts of climate change. MSCA IF enables me to be heavily involved in climate law research for two full years, which will give a boost to my scholarly career and provides me competitiveness under the ERC.

Flourish

H2020

The goal of the Flourish project is to bridge the gap between the current and desired capabilities of agricultural robots by developing an adaptable robotic solution for precision farming.

SenSOP-II

 

H2020

SenSOP-II optimises irrigation, fertilizer- and pesticide application and soil treatment focused on grapes, hop plants, fruits and vegetables and extensive wheat production areas affected by global temperature increase. SenSOP-II also monitors vitality, growth and qualities of cultural plants/ crops and measures applied.

MastCould

H2020

MastCould is an innovative Cloud-connected mastitis management system composed of an instrument and a modular software suite. Our solution will significantly improve resource efficiency and energy efficiency in the milk production industry.

iTractor

 

iTractor is a production start-up and market uptake of our “Hybrid smart robotized electric universal compact tractor- iTractor”.Trademark iTractor®.It is designed to work inside the farmyard or livestock farm.