Financing
European potato producers are facing a series of challenges such as crop pests, diseases and climate change. Hence, this use case adopts a holistic approach based on research and a unique blend of cutting-edge technologies while offering inexpensive yet valuable advice to farmers. An innovative, market-ready smart farming solution supports irrigation, pest management and fertilisation. Leveraging a network of telemetric IoT stations combined with satellite data and scientific models tailored to the specifi cities of the geographic areas, helps small-scale farmers to tackle those challenges.
Technical solution
Data-driven potato prediction utilises the GAIA sense smart farming solution which provides innovative services, building on state-of-the-art technologies like IoT, Big Data, Earth Observation, Context-based decision support and machine learning. The GAIA sense solution is extended with FIWARE-powered, standards based, data exchange mechanisms in support of cross-system interoperability and openness.
The impact
Our objectives
- Demonstrate how the use of IoT-driven smart farming solutions can help reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture;
- Facilitating farmers’ compliance with a wide range of European environmental legislation, including water and soil protection;
- Improvement of nitrogen use efficiency (+15%);
- Reduction of pesticides use (-15%);
- Reduction of water consumption (-25%).
Other impact
- Demonstrate how the use of IoT driven smart farming solutionscan help reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture;
- Facilitating farmers’ compliance with a wide range of European environmental legislation, including water and soil protection;
- Improvement of nitrogen use efficiency (+15%);
- Reduction of pesticides use (-15%);
- Reduction of water consumption (-25%).
- Demonstrating the potential benefits derived from the use of IoT-driven solutions;
- Achieve sustainable economic growth and foster innovation;
- Reduction of inputs costs (-18,6%);
- Farmers benefi ted from the provided advice >500;
- Smart farming advice available up to 1500ha;
- Building on extensive business network in >50 countries.
IoF2020 has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 731884
| Project manager | George Beers |
| Client | EU |
| Duration | January 2017 - December 2019 |
| External links | https://www.iof2020.eu/trials/arable/data-driven-potato-farming |
