Within the reporting period, we have designed and implemented a flexible federation of Agri-environment Data Space in the form of an AgriDataValue (ADV) platform. The ADV platform is a Platform of Platforms based on state-of-the-art technologies able to store, combine, upscale and share sensors’, drones’ and satellite agri-environment data, interfacing various heterogeneous external platform (i.e. Copernicus Land Monitoring Service platform), along with food value chain traceability. Interviews, questionnaires and co-creation workshops with ADV beneficiaries/pilot owners/end users/farmers have facilitated the use cases requirements extraction. At least 15 state of the art technologies (e.g. Federated ML, IDSA adapters, secure storage, blockchain, smart contracts, IoT processing, in memo databases, drones and satellite data geolocation, DevOps, Kubernetes, OAuth 2.0 etc) have already been integrated.
AgriDataValue platform has already implemented standardized adapters (based on AIM and IDSA) to collect, store and share in (near) real-time measurements from more than 7 different (pre-existing) IoT and satellite data platforms. More than 30 different data types ranging from micro-clima, air-quality, soil, leaf, and greenhouse sensors, drones’ and satellite monitoring services have been combined, while 7 semantic interoperability mechanisms from previous projects and initiatives have been analysed.
AgriDataValue core capabilities are based on three breakthrough technologies: a) Utilise blockchain and smart contracts to enable traceability of data and trained ML models sharing, b) advanced confidentiality-preserving Federated Deep Machine Learning (FDML) to train ML models, without moving, copying or disclosing any data from their original locationand c) human-eXplainable AI (XAI) technology in the form of semantic graphs in a symbiotic relationship between humans and an intelligence-capable system, so that collaborative cooperatives, farmers’ and decision makers’ will be able to understand the reasoning behind a recommendation.
AgriDataValue pilots extend in at least 181,000ha, with a least 25 different crop types and 5 animal species from 9 EU countries. At least 20 end-user organizations and more than 2,200 farmers are already informed. Beyond the pre-existing IoT and satellite data platforms that have been integrated, new IoT equipment (SynField/ SynAir) has been installed in most AgriDataValue pilots. As a result, we are already collecting at least 160 datasets (40 sources and 20 locations x 8 measurement types each) and more will be added.
