Descripción del proyecto
Un innovador sistema de predicción para la cadena de suministro entre granjas y consumidores
El aumento de los residuos en la cadena de suministro de alimentos, junto con las deficiencias en seguridad alimentaria, plantea un importante reto mundial. El proyecto FreshProof, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende resolver este problema desarrollando un innovador sistema de apoyo a las decisiones sobre previsiones. Dicho sistema proporcionará predicciones precisas, en tiempo real y bajo demanda, de la vida útil de los productos alimentarios a lo largo de toda la cadena de suministro de la granja al consumidor. Para lograrlo, en el proyecto se utilizarán unidades multisensor especialmente diseñadas que controlan las condiciones ambientales esenciales antes y después de la cosecha. Esta innovación introducirá una metodología integral que combina las condiciones previas y posteriores a la cosecha en una única herramienta de apoyo a la toma de decisiones. Además, será la primera en aplicar modelos de predicción que calculen la vida útil restante y el valor nutritivo de un producto a nivel de consumidor.
Objetivo
The project proposes an innovative systems approach to address existing food supply chain waste and shortcomings in food safety, integrity and traceability. FreshProof is a forecast decision support system to deliver accurate, real-time and on demand food product shelf-life prediction along the farm-consumer supply axis. It will exploit a novel monitoring system of multi-sensor units designed to monitor an array of critical environmental conditions when positioned in the field (pre-harvest) and during processing and distribution (postharvest). Each unit will be networked to a cloud based platform receiving an essential flow of real-time data. Advanced chemometrics and data fusion algorithms will be employed to mine and merge this data with data on products multiple quality attributes, nutritional value and safety, (obtained during laboratory simulation). This state-of-the-art system will for the first time employ a holistic approach combining both pre- and postharvest conditions in a single decision support tool and the first to implement prediction models to determine the remaining shelf-life and nutritional value of a product to consumer level. FreshProof is built on the applicant’s existing technical and research competencies in bioprocess engineering, food chemical analysis and chemometrics, enabling her to transfer, develop and apply these skills to food quality, safety, integrity and traceability systems. The applicant will reinforce the international aspect of her career development through training at the University of South Florida (USF) from Prof. Nunes and her research team - pioneers in the application of multi-sensor platforms across supply chains. During the return stage at University College Dublin (UCD) under the guidance of Prof. O’Donnell the researcher will transfer the knowledge gained to the EU whilst validating and promoting FreshProof across EU stakeholders.
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MSCA-IF-GF - Global FellowshipsCoordinador
4 Dublin
Irlanda