Descripción del proyecto
La explotación de un mar de oportunidades gracias a la acuicultura de precisión
La acuicultura sostenible por sí sola no puede satisfacer la creciente demanda de pescado en Europa, donde actualmente se importa el 57 % de los alimentos marinos que consumimos. Son necesarias una acuicultura de precisión y nuevas tecnologías para aprovechar todo el potencial de la acuicultura. El proyecto Undersee, financiado con fondos europeos, proporcionará una solución integrada, ampliable y fácil de usar para controlar y recopilar datos de acuicultura a partir de los pronósticos del Programa de Observación de la Tierra Copernicus y de servicios de computación en nube. Esto permitirá evaluar en tiempo real diversos factores como el pH, los contaminantes, la temperatura, el oxígeno o los niveles de salinidad, así como las alertas en caso de anomalías; por ejemplo, la proliferación de algas nocivas que pueden acabar con la vida marina. El proyecto puso en marcha su primer proyecto piloto en abril de 2019 en Lisboa (Portugal).
Objetivo
With over 25% of the seafood consumed in the EU coming from aquaculture, Europe has been in the forefront of quality and safety control. However, 57% of the aquaculture products consumed in the EU are imported, mainly from China and other Asian producers.
There is a sea of opportunities for increasing quality and efficient aquaculture in Europe, but it can still be vulnerable to unpredicted events such as contaminants, hypoxia, eutrophication and disease, that need to be quickly detected and corrected.
Undersee is the enabler of Precision Aquaculture. We provide a plug-and-play integrated solution to monitor and collect aquaculture data supported by Copernicus Earth Observation forecasts, scalable and easy to use (hardware sensor and cloud-based platform), coupled with an innovative PaaS Business Model.
Our plug-and-play sensors and our cloud system provide real-time assessment of critical variables (such as pH, pollutants, temperature, oxygen or salinity levels) and automated alarms in case of anomaly, namely forecasting Harmful Algae Blooms.
Matereo was founded in 2014 and launched under the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre in Portugal. Since then we have raised over 105.000€ in European research grants for developing Undersee. We launched our first paid pilot in April 2019 on a Tagus river ferryboat (Lisbon) and are negotiating an aquaculture pilot with Grieg Seafood, Norway.
We have secured Letters of Intent by several interested clients. Our target markets are, besides Portugal, the six biggest producers of aquaculture in EU: Norway, Spain, France, UK, Italy and Greece.
We have just secured $150.000 in investment from Katapult Ocean in Norway after a 3-month acceleration program.
Sustainable aquaculture is needed because fisheries alone will not meet the growing demand for seafood. Undersee will enable Precision Aquaculture in Europe, ensuring quality and safety standards, increasing yield and leveraging EU businesses.
Ámbito científico
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesfisheries
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologyphycology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1
Régimen de financiación
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinador
3030-199 COIMBRA
Portugal
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.