Descrizione del progetto
Un’innovativa tecnologia collegata al margine mette i megadati nelle mani delle aziende agricole
Il settore agricolo sta effettuando una rapida transizione all’era digitale e a tecnologie sempre più esigenti che aumentano la produttività riducendo l’uso di fertilizzanti chimici e risorse naturali, quali acqua ed energia. La PMI francese SARMENTI ha sviluppato un sistema di monitoraggio olistico basato su vari sensori elettrochimici collegati al cloud. Questi sensori posizionati sottoterra misureranno le sostanze nutritive del suolo così come il pH, l’umidità, la temperatura e persino le emissioni di gas serra in superficie. Una membrana innovativa assorbirà l’umidità dal terreno per eliminare l’impiego delle pompe ad alta intensità energetica tradizionalmente utilizzate. Il progetto SARMENTI, finanziato dall’UE, sta sostenendo la convalida e l’utilizzo di questa tecnologia di vasta portata con impatti sulla sicurezza alimentare globale, sul clima e sull’energia.
Obiettivo
"SARMENTI develops a multisensor, low power IoT secure node to provide decision support to farmers by monitoring in real-time and in situ soil nutrients and gaseous emission. From this data measured on a daily basis over crop lifecycles, the farmer will timely perform appropriate actions regarding fertilisation, with direct impact on crop growth, soil & water quality and farmer income.
The SARMENTI system will embed electrochemical sensors to measure e.g. NOx, POx, NH4, K, urea, pH, moisture, temperature. They will stay ideally during the crop lifecycle in the soil with packaging issues to protect them from their environment. A hygroscopic membrane will attract water from the soil, avoiding integration of a power hungry active pump usually used to exact water from a soil sample. SARMENTI will also monitor N2O (may appear in the nitrate cycle) and CH4 (generated by decomposition of manure under anaerobic conditions) just above the ground. These gases are greenhouse ones with higher warming potential than CO2.
SARMENTI is part of the IoT (e.g. LoRa, BLE connexion). Data integrity is guaranteed by developing a secure node via combination of attack detection and automatic countermeasures application.
Partners bring SoA prototypes of electrochemical and gas sensors and communication submodules, know-how in security for IoT nodes, and expertise in Agriculture. SARMENTI will further improve the prototypes (power, usage duration, hygroscopic membrane, packaging, sensitivity, selectivity) and integrate them with advanced processing in a connected secured device. Cloud Decisions support will allow evaluate the overall solution, SARMENTI demonstrator being tested in real fields.
SARMENTI directly addresses ICT-7 challenge: “develop and validate new generation of cost-effective ESS ...”, RIA aim: “demonstrate ESS bringing intelligence ... integration of sensor systems, processors, computing and networking elements..."" and “verification"", ""exploitation... clearly identified""."
Campo scientifico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- natural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistry
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
75015 PARIS 15
Francia