Project description
Smart solution for growing crops
Precision agriculture (PA) represents a novel farming management concept targeting optimum production using minimal resources. It inserts digital technology into agriculture to observe and process agricultural data. PA could help meet the need for ensuring reduced costs with increased yield for a rapidly growing population in the face of global warming and climate change. The EU-funded SysAgria project proposes a real-time land controlling solution that is adaptable to all kinds of crops and all kinds of farms. It collects, monitors and elaborates a wide range of data and can also incorporate them into expert system databases adding accurate predicted values in case of pests, damages or weed. The technology is a creation of the Romanian high-tech SME Syswin Solutions.
Objective
The most recent advancing trend that is foreseen to shape more dramatically the new way of doing agriculture in Europe is precision agriculture (PA). This new management approach integrates digital solutions into agricultural processes with the aim of monitoring and optimizing agricultural production. The global PA market is estimated to exceed 8.50 bn. Euro by 2023 from 4.43 bn Euro from 2018 with a CAGR of 13.38%. The major drivers for the PA market include increasing strain on the global food supply owing to increasing population, substantial cost savings associated with PA techniques, and government initiatives to adopt modern agricultural techniques. It is gaining tremendous popularity among farmers worldwide due to the increasing need for optimum crop production with limited available resources. Further, the changing weather patterns due to increasing global warming have impelled the adoption of advanced farming technologies to enhance farm productivity and crop yield.
To fulfil these needs and requirements and tap into the constantly growing PA global market, Syswin Solutions Ltd, a Romanian high-tech SME with advanced knowledge and experience in IoT technologies and solutions, created SysAgria - a real-time land monitoring system of multiple parameters simultaneously, adaptable to all types of crops, scalable for different agricultural areas and accessible for all types of farms (including small and medium) due to a lower market price.
Unlike current competitive solutions on the market, SysAgria not only monitors and processes data on multiple parameters, but it can also integrate the collected data into expert system databases that allow for accurate predicted values, based on identified patterns, in the case of pests, damages or weed pressures. This approach helps using the collected data to recommend tailored actions for each situation encountered in the field.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligenceexpert systems
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinator
013981 BUCURESTI
Romania
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.