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Aggregate Farming in the Cloud

Descripción del proyecto

Sistemas agrícolas inteligentes para los agricultores

La viabilidad económica de la agricultura en Europa está en peligro. Los agricultores se enfrentan a los elevados costes, los bajos rendimientos, la escasez de mano de obra, el cambio climático, los patógenos de las plantas y las enfermedades del ganado. Son muchas cosas que gestionar, sobre todo para las pequeñas empresas agrícolas. Con el objetivo de solucionarlo, el equipo del proyecto AFarCloud, financiado con fondos europeos, desarrollará una plataforma distribuida para la agricultura autónoma que permita la integración de sistemas agrícolas inteligentes en tiempo real. De este modo se mejorará la productividad, la calidad de los alimentos, la salud de los cultivos y el ganado, y se reducirán los costes laborales. La plataforma se integrará con programas informáticos de gestión de explotaciones para apoyar soluciones de supervisión y toma de decisiones. En AFarCloud también se pretende facilitar a más agricultores el acceso a robots agrícolas mediante el establecimiento de una red cooperativa de vehículos agrícolas.

Objetivo

Farming is facing many economic challenges in terms of productivity and cost-effectiveness, as well as an increasing labour shortage partly due to depopulation of rural areas. Furthermore, reliable detection, accurate identification and proper quantification of pathogens and other factors affecting both plant and animal health, are critical to be kept under control in order to reduce economic expenditures, trade disruptions and even human health risks.
AFarCloud will provide a distributed platform for autonomous farming that will allow the integration and cooperation of agriculture Cyber Physical Systems in real-time in order to increase efficiency, productivity, animal health, food quality and reduce farm labour costs. This platform will be integrated with farm management software and will support monitoring and decision-making solutions based on big data and real time data mining techniques.
The AFarCloud project also aims to make farming robots accessible to more users by enabling farming vehicles to work in a cooperative mesh, thus opening up new applications and ensuring re-usability, as heterogeneous standard vehicles can combine their capabilities in order to lift farmer revenue and reduce labour costs.
The achievements from AFarCloud will be demonstrated in 3 holistic demonstrators (Finland, Spain and Italy), including cropping and livestock management scenarios and 8 local demonstrators (Latvia, Sweden, Spain and Czech Republic) in order to test specific functionalities and validate project results in relevant environments located in different European regions.
AFarCloud outcomes will strengthen partners’ market position boosting their innovation capacity and addressing industrial needs both at EU and international levels. The consortium represents the whole ICT-based farming solutions’ value chain, including all key actors needed for the development, demonstration and future market uptake of the precision farming framework targeted in the project.

Régimen de financiación

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinador

UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 240 625,00
Dirección
CALLE RAMIRO DE MAEZTU 7 EDIFICIO RECTORADO
28040 Madrid
España

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Región
Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 687 500,00

Participantes (60)