FOODIE Project Expo 2015

Introduction to the FOODIE Project, its scope and
activities, first results achieved.
FOODIE Event – EXPO Milano 2015
(Milan, 05 October 2015)
Simona Mincione, ENCO
w w w . f o o d i e - p r o j e c t . e u
Grant agreement no: 621074
CIP-ICT-PSP-2013-7 Pilot Type B

2www.foodie-project.eu
Contents
1. Project ID
2. Setting the Scene
3. FOODIE Objectives
4. FOODIE Benefits
5. FOODIE service Platform Hub and Users

 FOODIE (Farm-Oriented Open Data in Europe) is a co-funded
research project within the Competitiveness and Innovation
Framework Programme (CIP) programme of the EU's Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7).
 The project is dedicated to the use and promotion of open
data for agricultural applications.
 Total cost: € 5,921,971.00
 EU contribution: € 2,960,985.00
 Execution: from 01/03/2014 to 28/02/2017
 Duration: 36 months
1. Project ID

 FOODIE aims at enabling in an easy manner the (re)use of
open data in the agricultural domain in order to create new
applications that provide added value to different stakeholder
groups.
 FOODIE focuses on agricultural applications exemplified by
three main application pilots:
• Pilot 1: Precision Viticulture (Spain)
• Pilot 2: Open Data for Strategic and Tactical planning (Czech
Republic)
• Pilot 3: Technology allows integration of logistics via service
providers and farm management including traceability
(Germany)
1. Project ID

 The FOODIE consortium: 12 organisations from 7 countries.
• Industrial partners: ATOS (Spain), SERESCO (Spain)
• Academia & Research: WIRELESSINFO (Czech Republic), CTIC (Spain),
PSNC (Poland), TDF (Latvia)
• SMEs and End users: PROGIS (Austria), MJM LITOVEL (Czech Republic),
BODEGAS TERRAS GAUDA (Spain), NETCAD (Turkey), ENCO (Italy),
CONSORZIO BIM (Italy)
1. Project ID

 Italian Company / Founded in 1987
 Offices in Naples, Brussels, Rio de Janeiro
 Mission: consultancy and business development
 Wide Experience in EU funded Projects
 Specialised in communication and dissemination strategies as well as in business
and exploitation planning.
 Main areas: environmental management, agro-food sector, logistics, waste,
biofuels
 Project Coordinator of the H2020-WASTE 4C-2014 Project SMART GROUND
 Project Partner in the H2020-LCE-11-2015 Project WASTE2FUELS
 Roles in the FOODIE Project
 Leader of the task 6.2– Dissemination
 Participation in the exploitation, business modelling, sustainability & transferability
tasks
 Participation in training task: development of training contents related to Market
Analysis and Agrometeorological information
1. Project ID - ENCO

 Building an open and interoperable agricultural specialized platform
hub on the cloud
 for the management of spatial and non-spatial data relevant for
farming production
 for discovery of spatial and non-spatial agriculture related data from
heterogeneous sources
 integration of existing and valuable European open datasets related
to agriculture
 data publication and data linking of external agriculture data sources
contributed by different public and private stakeholders
 allowing to provide specific and high-value applications and services
for the support in the planning and decision-making processes of
different stakeholders groups related to the agricultural and
environmental domains.
2. FOODIE Objectives

What challenges does agriculture face today?
3. Setting the scene
To assure a safety
and sustainable
supply
Keep costs under
control
Increased regulation
to limit the
environmental
impact
Biodiversity
Erosion,
desertification,
chemical pollution
and water shortages
In this context information and communication technologies (ICT) can serve
as a way to help farmers make informed decisions and maximise yields
from their resources. FOODIE will provide agri-food stakeholders with a
cloud-based platform offering agricultural services based on open data.

 Agriculture requires collection, storage, sharing and analysis of large quantities of
spatially and non-spatially referenced data.
 Necessary information is not always available or easily accessible. Farmers need to
use different tools to manage monitoring and data acquisition on‐line in the field.
They need to analyse information related to subsidies, and to communicate with
tax offices, product resellers etc.
 Modern agriculture has a major impact on the environment while damaging
biodiversity. Unless they are sustainably managed, farms and pastures can cause
erosion, desertification, chemical pollution and water shortages. These risks need
to be monitored and managed.

Current
situation

Future
situation

 Macroeconomic benefits:
 Increased value of the farmers land
 Increased value for the entire country
 Fundament for local carbon management and funding
 Better living standards
 More sustainable agriculture
 Investors benefit due to better information
 Cooperation between farmers and scientists
 Banks and insurance will be integrated
 Seeds-, fertilizer-, and food-chain integration
 Drives to an eco-social market economy
4. FOODIE Benefits

 Microeconomic benefits:
 Precise size and location of fields
 Planning, documentation and traceability
 Nutrient- and carbon balance
 Cost calculation
 Integrate local know how
 Logistics – planning for the entire chain
 Meteorology data for better decisions
 Soil moisture data for better decisions
 Reduced risks due to better integral planning
 Farmers integration in environmental caretaking
4. FOODIE Benefits

 FOODIE as a SERVICE:
• The platform will be used by advisors as their advisory service
tool.
• For farmers it will offer a simple data entry tool to do business
calculations, nutrient balance, carbon balances or build up new
services with labs in background that support soil data, manure
data, feed data and disseminate the worked out datasets via the
FOODIE platform.
• European Union Policy Context: harmonization, interoperability
and data management and sharing is a key enabler for EU
environmental and agricultural policies and activities.
• Guarantee seamless access to different groups of stakeholders
to different observation technologies and different data.
4. FOODIE Benefits

5. FOODIE service platform hub and users
Different groups of users will use FOODIE service platform hub in different ways:
 Farmers will use final applications based on FOODIE services. Thus, standard usage
will be to use FOODIE platform on the base of SaaS model
 Public sector will be able to access relevant information from their application
through standardised interfaces (OGC services, API)
 Researchers will be able to access relevant information from their application trough
standardised interfaces (OGC services, API) or use directly analytical tools on FOODIE
platform
 ICT developers will access information in repositories by possible ways:
• Using FOODIE services and APIs to develop new applications and directly
deploy them on FOODIE infrastructure
• Using FOODIE APIs to integrate their external infrastructure with FOODIE
service platform

 One platform for all the most common tasks
• Production planning
• Production monitoring, alerting and analyses
• Subsidies management
• Environmental burden monitoring
 Ownership of farmer’s data
• Farmer’s data are private and sensitive data
• Remains farmer’s property
 Modularity
• Customizable and scalable platform

 Control panel
 Facilitates the addition, removal an configuration of widgets
 Expansible panel with widget configuration options
 Interconnected widgets

Treatment
attribute
Value
Intervention
type
Herbicide application
Status ongoing
Intervention
start
2015-04-22
Supervisor Mr. Parker, senior
manager, phone +32
Treatment
quantity
70 litres
Application
width
25 meters
Form of
treatment
Application machine
Product xxx
… …

 Macro level, which includes
management of external
information (for example
about market, subsidies
system, weather prediction,
global market and
traceability systems);
 Farm level, which includes
for example economical
systems, crop rotation,
decision supporting system;
 Field (micro) level including
precision farming,
collection of information
about traceability and in
the future also robotics.
Knowledge management = three interrelated levels:

Strategic
Decision
Tactical
Decision
Operational
Decision
Synergy between information flow and decision level

 Cloud deploying of basic and standardized services , allowing
 Decreasing not only deploying costs but also production and maintenance costs.
 Making easier integration and realize the vision of a “network of data-hubs”, sharing
data and services to provide a new data exploitation ecosystem where data is enriched
by composition.
 Easily discoverability and composability of services
 Data and services deployed and published by FOODIE - based on common and widely
used standards - will be publicly available enabling thus the discovery by end users/third
party companies and reuse of them stand-alone or by composition with other services
to provide a richer or a particular solution.
 “Pay as you go” paradigm
 Services or data published by FOODIE can be free or non- free.
 For instance, FOODIE will provide for free a global agriculture sector balanced
scorecard and a non-free repository where key indicators for the agriculture sector may
be obtained and combined by all stakeholders to make their own balanced scorecard.
 This paradigm will enable third parties as for instance consultancy companies
to sell consultancy services (reports, etc.) on top of FOODIE information.
6. Innovative aspects

 Reward mechanisms for data sharing
 FOODIE will promote participation of stakeholders and end users (high value data
owners) in terms of “the more information you provide to the hub, the more data and
services for free you will enjoy”.
 Clear Return of Investment (ROI) for the end user
 Reduction of costs are a strategic pillar of most SMEs but also large number of
companies in the agricultural domain.
 For instance, FOODIE services will include a simulator which calculates, asking a few
questions about a crop, reduction of costs by rationalizing the use of fertilizers, water,
energy, etc. thus quickly amortizing the cost of the service.
 Multi-device/multiplatform/multipurpose front-ends
 FOODIE will include mechanisms allowing users to exploit information and services by
means of graphical and intuitive interfaces.
6. Innovative aspects

w w w . f o o d i e - p r o j e c t . e u
Grant agreement no: 621074
CIP-ICT-PSP-2013-7 Pilot Type BFOODIE Event – EXPO Milano 2015
(Milan, 05 October 2015)
The FOODIE Spanish Pilot
Simona Mincione, ENCO
Content by Ismael Suárez Cerezo, SERESCO

Contents
1. Objectives & Means
2. Location, Team & Tasks
3. Stakeholders
4. Status and Execution Progress
5. Status & Future

 Precision Viticulture (PV) – An important concept on the wine-
growing sector worldwide.
 The main objectives are:
 The appropriate management of the inherent variability of crops
 An increase in economic benefits
 A reduction of environmental impact
 Main strategies, which provide significant benefits:
 Variable-rate application (VRA) of inputs
 Selective harvesting at parcel level
 Crucial aspects for vineyards:
 Differentiation of grape qualities at harvest time
 Yield prediction
 Prevention of pests – by algorithms
Spanish Pilot – Objectives

 The zoning of the parcels will allow us to deepen the
understanding of the spatial variability, the differences
between parcels and their qualitative possibilities.
 The plant vigour analysis by vegetation indices, the surface
reflectance acquired by satellite and the deployment of a
network of sensors, will provide crucial data for proper
vineyard management such as the nutritional status and
climatic conditions, which would help to optimize tasks such
as phytosanitary treatments or nutrient supply needed for
each parcel.
Spanish Pilot – Means

• Spatial variability
 Refers to the identification and measuring of variables,
such as land features or general topography, moisture
levels present in the soil, soil nutrient levels - including
nitrogen, potassium, and magnesium, as well as soil pH
levels, crop yields, and more.
• Site-specific treatments
 The application of different rates of seed, fertilizer, or
agrochemicals to soil or plants in different parts of a field,
according to need.
Spanish Pilot – Means

 The pilot is taking place in Spain, in the region of Galicia, where Terras
Gauda, a vine producer, has 160 ha. (roughly 400 acres). The total
extension being part of the project will amount 150 acres.
Spanish Pilot – Location

Spanish Company / Founded in 1969 / Over 500 employees
 Offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Asturias, Galicia, Portugal, Ecuador, Costa Rica
 Mission: consultancy and development of software solutions and provision of services in
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
 Wide Experience in the Agricultural Sector
 Integrated Management System for the Ministry of Rural Environment of the Xunta de
Galicia
 WebPAC and EEOP, web applications that manage subsidies related to the rural
environment (FEAGA and FEADER aids)
 Application for livestock health control for the Ministry of Rural Environment of the
Principality of Asturias and Castile-Leon
 Roles in the Project
 Leader of the WP5 – Pilots’ Preparation, Execution and Evaluation
 Technical developments in the Spanish Pilot
 Participation in technical tasks: platform specification, services integration, data analysis,
dissemination and exploitation activities
Spanish Pilot – SERESCO

 Spanish Company / Founded in 1990
 Location in Galicia
 Mission: production of white vines with native varieties, number one in volume in
the Protected Designation of Origin ”Rias Baixas”.
 Currently sells 1.5 million bottles of wine annually in over 50 national and
international markets on the five continents
 Expertise and Research
 ISO 9001 quality certification for the cultivation and harvesting activities of
vineyards
 An experienced research team that has obtained three patents related to different
wines.
 Roles in the Project
 Provision of 60 hectares of vineyards for the Spanish Pilot
 Definition of requirements, design of management zones, analysis of results, and
oenological expertise for the Spanish Pilot
Spanish Pilot – Terras Gauda

Spanish Pilot Team – SERESCO & Terras Gauda
Spanish Pilot – The Team
Antonio
Cristina
Rodolfo
Emilio
Ismael

 Terras Gauda vineyards & Emilio inspecting the grapes
Spanish Pilot – The Team

1) Initial zoning of the parcels, based on known geo-climatic and
topographical information.
2) Selection, installation and management of sensors and
monitors, VRA equipment and machinery.
3) Quantification and evaluation of within-field variability.
4) Measures of final grape production and wine quality,
depending on the initial zoning.
5) Zoning review in accordance with the results.
Spanish Pilot – Tasks

 Sensors installation in Terras Gauda’s Vineyards
Installation and geo-positioning of the weather station (including
rain and wind speed sensors)
Spanish Pilot – Execution Progress

 Installation of one of the motes including the following sensors:
• Temperature of the air
• Humidity of the air
• Temperature in the foliage
• Moisture on foliage
• Leaf wetness
• Soil temperature

 Situation of these sensors in the plots

Spanish Pilot – Mobile App

Status:
Requirements analysis completed
Sensor and weather stations in operation
Beginning of database population
Registration and visual representation of information
Future Developments:
Completion of the user interface
End-Users Trainning
Evaluation and recommendations for the vineyards
Spanish Pilot – Status & Future

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Contacts
contact@foodie-project.eu
@FOODIE_Project
FOODIE Project
Open Agriculture Data Working Group - FOODIE
Simona Mincione
Enco srl

Partners
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This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of
the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme by the European Commission
under grant agreement no. 621074

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