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Artificial intelliGence applied to pRecision farmIng By the use of GNSS and Integrated Technologies

Project description

Growing precision agriculture opportunities with AI

The EU-funded AgriBIT project aims to increase the precision, accuracy and continuity of services to empower farmers to benefit from improved precision agriculture services. This will lead to reduction in costs through decreased use of inputs, a lower environmental impact and increased production yields. AgriBIT improves synergies with GNSS and EO and combines such information with on-field and on-machine sensors and actuators, as well as expert agricultural knowledge, to deliver simple, high-precision and continuously available services. AgriBIT improves the agriculture chain in terms of optimised use of resources, increased crop diversity across smaller land areas, and extended availability of precision agriculture services, even in challenging conditions.

Objective

AgriBIT aims to increase the precision, accuracy and continuity of services to deliver improved Precision Agriculture (PA) services to farmers, leading to a reduction in costs through decreased use of inputs (water, energy, fertilisers, pesticides), lower environmental impacts and increased production yields. It positions its innovations both at the level of intervention on the field and the capturing of the effects of PA over time, intelligently exploiting the information acquired before, during and after direct intervention on the field.
AgriBIT combines augmented GNSS and EO information with 1) on-field and on-machine sensors and actuators, and 2) expert agricultural knowledge to deliver simple, high precision and continuously available services. It develops and extends advanced Artificial Intelligence algorithms to fully exploit this rich set of inputs to recommend actions to farmers building on past history and present context and to ease their workload through improved automation.
AgriBIT delivers operational services (3 GNSS-enabler services, 8 GNSS-enabled services) and 1 European sourced high precision GNSS affordable receiver that cover the complete value chain of PA, from monitoring to application and precise and automated machinery guidance. With 70% of European farmers active in small to medium operations, AgriBITs European sourced high precision GNSS receiver at an affordable price is a major technological and societal contribution to Europes farming community.
AgriBIT delivers collaboration services supporting farmers and service advisors, but also 3rd party developers for whom open interfaces are provided both at service level and as channels for advanced Big Data Analytics innovations.
Over 36 months, AgriBIT includes 20 months piloting at 3 locations, 12 months testing of collaboration services and delivers TRL-8 results. AgriBIT involves 5 solution providers (4 SMEs), 1 research centre and 2 farmers cooperatives with 11.250 members.

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IA - Innovation action

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(opens in new window) H2020-SPACE-EGNSS-2019-2020

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Coordinator

ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA
Net EU contribution

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€ 434 787,50
Address
PIAZZALE DELL'AGRICOLTURA 24
00144 ROMA
Italy

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Region
Centro (IT) Lazio Roma
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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€ 621 125,00

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