TYPE

European

CALL

2018 Joint Call of the 3 ERANETs: ICT-Agri, FACCE Era-gas, Era-net SUSAN on Novel technologies, solutions and systems to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of animal production systems

PERIOD

01/01/2019 – 30/09/2022

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Project Details

The main objective of the project is to apply a holistic approach for decreasing the GHG emissions derived from intensive livestock farming by optimizing the livestock production. For doing this, the consortium will monitor the animal feed, the animal behaviour and  characteristics and the stable environment. Specifically, IoT devices will be installed in the farm for monitoring key parameters of

i) the stable environment (temperature, humidity, gas sensors (NOx, COx, CH4, NH3, etc.),

ii) the animal (accelerometer, motion sensor, weight sensor, etc.) and

iii) the feed (flow sensor, weight sensor, humidity sensor etc.).

A web-based platform will be developed that will collect and analyse all the aforementioned data for providing recommendations to the livestock farming stakeholders (farmers, consultants etc) in order to take management decisions for reducing GHG emissions. In addition, BlockChain Technology (BCT) will be used in the platform for developing different features such as data protection, data privacy, data sharing, traceability and smart contracts among the livestock farming stakeholders. Specifically, the smart contracts feature of the platform will help livestock farming stakeholders to have contracts with better prices due to decreased GHG emissions.

Finally, a knowledge base will be created in the platform through which ICT processes will be shared by farmers and will help with them to:

  1. decide about the various inter – related parameters that are required to have optimum use of environmental resources available (i.e. reduced GHG emissions)
  2. share with experts, any interim or major problems that may crop up during the whole livestock farming process e.g. sowing of seed to delivering milk from cows
  3. market products with reduced GHG to livestock farming stakeholders.

Project Partners

  1. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS (AGENSO), GR – COORDINATOR
  2. BEAM INNOVATION (BEAM), RO
  3. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK (SDU), DK
  4. BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL (BEIA), RO
  5. Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), GR