The work in First Reporting Period focused on WP1, 2 and 3, as planned.
WP1 was dedicated to better understand the user requirements, the data formats, standards and interconnection as well as to plan the architecture of the Geodatabase (i.e. the server based platform due to gather, store, elaborate and distribute all digital data generated by the devices and services developed by the project).
All of the activites had been carried out as planned and are detailed in the documents (deliverables) handed out so far.
WP2 is dedicated to the development of prototypes for trees and timber marking, optimize value recovery of trees to be processed (bucking instructions), track and trace timber products with link to quality parameters detected directly during processing and create an additional traceability system within the sawmill integrated with the one active in the forest-to-millgate.
The manual system based on dedicated RFID tags for marking trees and logs, a smartphone APP for forest inventory and log measurement and interfaced with a timber quality sensor has been developed and successfully tested in operative scenario (forest harvesting operations). The ID identification system based on RFID has been developed and tested in the sawmill as final step of the tracking system. Measured data has been transmitted to an intermediate cloud storage for demonstration purposes since the Geodatabase is due to be finalized at the beginning of the second reporting period. The prime mover of the mechanized system (harvester prototype) has been purchased and partially adapted to host the components of the new prototype. Several sensors and solutions had been validated, but not integrated due to the delay in finalizing the core system (marking system with punching technology and the main bucking computer). The sawmill traceability system reached a satisfactory development level, but its delivery will happen during the second reporting period according to GA.
WP3 developed the Geodatabase functionality, whose architecture had been furthe defined as well as the database structure. The activation of the Geodatabase is due at the beginning of the second reporting period.