Objective
For many years health statistics have shown that farmers using various types of pesticides have a lower life expectancy due to lung and stomach sicknesses. In agriculture and particularly in industrial agricultural, toxic substances (insecticides, weed-killers, fungicides, pesticides) are widely used. Furthermore accidents and poisoning often occur whilst handling toxic substances. These substances are normally only minimally poisonous to human beings, but constant handling by farmers can result in the long term accumulation in the body. The build up of toxins found in the farming sector can eventually lead to incapacity or even early death.
In order to reduce the risk to farmers in intensive farming, the project proposed a new combined sensor-filtering system which is implemented in the tractor cabin. In case of spraying, watering or pumping pesticides, the cabin can be isolated from outside air. The sensor technology is already applied to the automobile sector and the filter system is in operation in the security sector. These functions are not provided by conventional air condition-systems and filters up to now but an integrated system built into a standard tractor cab could have important benefits. Thus, the combination of these existing technologies and their transfer to the farming sector should potentially lead to significant improvement in health protection for the farming industry.
The project was a success both technically and also in terms of raising awareness and interest in the issue of minimising the exposure of farmers to toxic chemicals whilst driving a tractor. There is the potential for significant health and safety improvements to farmers using the technology. The composition of the consortium was also interesting in that in addition to technical experts and end users, the consortium contained technology transfer experts and industrial organisations. The technology transfer organisations selected from different countries also played an important role in raising awareness of the issues involved at the European level and in providing publicity for the project. Finally, the success of such an innovation can be strongly influenced by prevailing legislation and standards and these were seriously considered as part of the project.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
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Coordinator
44227 DORTMUND
Germany
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