This is a presentation about the background, development and state-of-the-art of large ICT-projects in Agri-Food that are going on in Europe: Internet of Food and Farm 2020 (IoF2020) and SmartAgriHubs.
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Large ICT-projects in Agri-Food in Europe
1. Large ICT projects in Agri-Food in Europe:
IoF2020 and SmartAgriHubs
Dr. Sjaak Wolfert
Strategic Senior Scientist at Wageningen University & Research
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 27 Jun. 2019
3. To explore the potential of nature
to improve the quality of life
Wageningen University & Research
Academic research & education, and applied research
5,800 employees (5,100 fte)
12,000 BSc/MSc students (>120 countries)
2,000 PhD students
> 30 locations in NL, also global satellites
Turnover about € 650 million
#1 Agricultural Sciences
14x
4. Campus ecosystem: science with impact...
University
• Education and training
• Fundamental and
strategic research
Research institutes
• Strategic and applied
research
• Pre-competitive &
confidential projects
Spin-offs / SMEs
• Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• New companies
(Inter)national
companies
• R&D departments
• Shared facilities
• Joint activities
5. European Public-Private Partnership ICT-projects
2011-2013: SmartAgriFood - a FIWARE-based conceptual architecture
and prototype applications (5 M€)
2013-2015: FIspace – B2B business collaboration platform for agri-food
& logistics (+ apps) (13.5 M€)
2014-2016: Accelerators: SmartAgriFood2, FInish, FRACTALS (~17 M€)
- 125 apps/start-ups based on FIWARE/FIspace
Sep. 2016: FIWARE Foundation established with 3 verticals:
Smart Cities, Industry and Agri-Food
2017-2020: IoF2020 – The Internet of Food and Farm (30 M€) - IoT
large-scale pilot for smart farming and food security
2018-2022: SmartAgriHubs – Connecting the dots to unleash the
innovation potential for digital transformation of the
European Agri-Food sector (20 M€)
7. Involving entire supply chain and beyond
Smart Farming
Smart Logistics
Tracking & Tracing
Consumer trends
Domotics Health
Fitness/Well-beingPersonalized
8. 1. Decision-Making
for Business/Consumers
2. Food Integrity
HealthFood Safety Environment Nutrition Food SecurityClimate
4. Decision-making for Society
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Smart Sensing &
Monitoring
Smart Control
Smart Analysis &
Planning
Cloud Computing
Big Data
Analytics
Internet of
Things
Linked Data
Artificial
Intelligence
Blockchain
Technology
3. Science & Technology
Digitization of Agri-Food: 4 areas coming together
9. Creating a collaborative infrastructure
Scenario: get expert advice for spraying to
handle disease on tomatoes
State AuthorityFranz Farmer Ed Expert
Spraying
(follow advice)
Create
Advice
Approval
Request
Advice
CollaborativeBusinessProcess
1
2
3
FIspace App
‘Weather
Information’
FIspace App
‘Spraying
Expert Advice’
FIspace App
‘Spraying
Certification’
Back-EndSystems
Farm
Management
Systems
Sensor Network
in the Greenhouse
Agronomist
Expert System
Regulations &
Approval
System
product type, etc.
sensor data
(access details)
suggested
chemical
advice details
certification
details
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10. The Battlefield of Data for Farming and Food
Farming
Data
Food
Data
See: Wolfert et al., Agricultural Systems 153 (2017) 69–80
Processors
Ag
Business Tech
Companies
Tech
Start-up
Tech
Start-up
Ag Tech
Retail
Venture
Capitalists
Data
Start-up
Data
Start-up
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Interview with
Johan Bouma in
Resource 4 Oct. 2018
p. 18-19
1. Multidisciplinarity
2. Collaborative process
3. Agile development
13. ECOSYSTEM & COLLABORATION SPACE
ProjectCoordination&
Management
A multidisciplinary, collaborative, agile approach
Trials/Use Cases: Knowledge & App development
Lean multi-actor approach
3. EVALUATION
1. CO-DESIGN
2. IMPLEMENTATION
P1
P2
LARGE
SCALE
P3
Data Science &
Information management
Business Modelling,
Governance & Ethics
Ecosystem Development
14.
15. Objective:
Large-scale uptake of IoT in the European
farming and food sector
• Business case of IoT
• Integrate and reuse available IoT
technologies
• User acceptability of IoT
• Sustainability of IoT solutions
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Internet of Food and Farm 2020
Innovation Action: 2017 - 2020
30 M€ funding by DG-CNCT/AGRI
16. 19 + 14 use case projects
Source: www.iof2020.eu/trials
17. Soil map based variable rate applications and machine automation in potato production
UC1.1. WITHIN-FIELD
MANAGEMENT ZONING
Coordinators: Peter Paree (ZLTO) & Corné Kempenaar (WUR)
18. SOIL MAP SERVICE
VARIABLE RATE
APPLICATION MAP
AUTOMATION & MACHINE
COMMUNICATION
Product Impressions
19. Major Challenge Here is what we aim to improve (KPIs)
Yield by better
plant distribution
Variable planting distance map –
Validation in 2017 and 2018. Nov. 2018
portal where maps can be ordered.
Variable rate herbicide use map -
Validation in 2016 and 2017. May 2018
portal where maps can be ordered.
Quality by better
plant distribution
Reduction
pesticide use
Core Product Features
Variable Rate
Application Map Service
Customer & Provider
Uses soil maps and agronomic knowledge to create
crop management task map based on variability in
soil characteristics like organic matter and/or clay
content, water storage capacity, tramlines, shade,
etc..
Smart application of resources: seeds,
pesticides, fertilizers +4%
+5%
-23%
Better distribution of plants leads to +5% kilos and +5% better
quality (more potatoes in desired size). Taking soil characteristics
for weed growth into account: -23% less herbicide and +2% more
yield.
Enriching canopy index with soil characteristics lead to -10% less
additional N fertilizer (2nd phase).
These values derive from comparison of a standard farm’s performance
prior to the installation of our system and after.
Reduction
fertilizer use
-10%
Product Factsheet
Existing variable rate maps are often based on tweaking
expert judgement and lack a certain level of precision in
tasking / lack of validation.
Farmers and advisors
Price per unit, added value
LoonwerkGPS,
soil analysis labs,
FMIS providers VRA additional N spraying
June 2018 on Growth + Soil Maps.
High spatio-temporal monitoring dashboard
20. IoT tools for sustainable wine production, wine quality management and shipping monitoring
UC3.2. BIG WINE
OPTIMIZATION
Coordinators: Mario Diaz Nava, ST Microelectronics
22. IoT Product Impressions
sensors in
the vineyard
display devices,
agronomic parameters
and weather forecast
Temperature/RH
logger
with data
transmission
NIR spectrometer
% alc., sugar,
etc.
26. Translating dairy cow behaviour to management
information that helps a farmer to improve farm
efficiency and animal health.
Major Challenge
Here is what we aim to improve (KPIs)
Calving interval
305 day milk
production
Number of
days treated
with antibiotics
Customer & Provider
Ida a ‘farmers assistant’ based
on artificial intelligence; it helps
the farmer to keep the herd
healthy.
Dairy farmers
-3%
+1%
-0.5%7,5
€/cow/month
Detect oestrus with 80% accuracy
Detection of health problems.
Predict the start of calving
Rank cows based on their feed efficiency
Track management problems based on herd
behaviour.
Insights on dairy herds for partners like
veterinarians and dairy processors with.
Core Product Features
Tracks cow behaviour and learns from the
observed patterns to advise the farmer.
Product Factsheet
IDA: the Intelligent Dairy farmers Assistant
27. IOF2020 ECOSYSTEM & COLLABORATION SPACE
WP1ProjectCoordination&
Management
GENERIC APPROACH & STRUCTURE
WP2 Trials/Use cases: Knowledge & App development
Lean multi-actor approach
3. EVALUATION
1. CO-DESIGN
2. IMPLEMENTATION
P1
P2
LARGE
SCALE
P3
WP3 IoT Integration WP4 Business Support
WP5 Ecosystem Development
28. TECHNICAL / ARCHITECTURAL APPROACH
Use case
architecture
Use case
IoT system
developed
Use case IoT
system
implemented
Use case IoT
system
deployed
USE CASE REQUIREMENTS
IoT reference
architecture
instance of
IoT catalogue
Reusable IoT
components
reuse
IoT Lab
Reference
configurations
& instances
reuse
Collaboration
Space
shared
services
& data
ProjectlevelUsecaselevel
sustain
reuse
30. Business support
Different business
models will be
tested to identify
the most successful
and sustaining ones
BUSINESS MODELS
Buying and selling a
product is te best
service.
MARKET
STUDY
Develop standard
procedures and
guidelines to handle
sensitive
information and to
protect IP
PRIVACY
GUIDELINES
Calculate costs
savings and effects
on revenue
development &
financing plans for
farmers
KPI & IMPACT
31. FOSTERING IOT-ECOSYSTEM: IMPACT
• 33 IoT architectures
implemented
• 19,500 IoT devices
• 80 IoT solutions
• 20-25% more
sustainable production
• 100 test beds &
demosites
• 500 new stakeholders
involved
• Use cases: TRL 5 8
• 80% user satisfaction
• 95% viable business
models
• 60 M€ industry
investments
• 30 M€ new business by
IoT developers
32. 1. Decision-Making
for Business/Consumers
2. Food Integrity
HealthFood Safety Environment Nutrition Food SecurityClimate
4. Decision-making for Society
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Smart Sensing &
Monitoring
Smart Control
Smart Analysis &
Planning
Cloud Computing
Big Data
Analytics
Internet of
Things
Linked Data
Artificial
Intelligence
Blockchain
Technology
3. Science & Technology
Re: Digitization of Agri-Food: 4 areas coming together
33. Decision-Making
Food Integrity
HealthFood Safety Environment Nutrition Food SecurityClimate
Public decision-making
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Smart Sensing &
Monitoring
Smart Control
Smart Analysis &
Planning
Cloud Computing
Big Data
Analytics
Internet of
Things
Linked Data
Artificial
Intelligence
Blockchain
Technology
Science&Technology
But...developments are still very fragmented
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Consolidate and foster EU-wide network of Ag Digital Innovation
Hubs to enhance digital transformation for sustainable farming and
food production
Region and Sector
Specific expertise
Digital Transformation of the
European Agri-Food Sector
Technology expertise
Business model expertise
SmartAgriHubs’ Overall Objective
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Where IoF2020 stops... and SmartAgriHubs continues
ECOSYSTEM & COLLABORATION SPACE
ProjectCoordination&
Management
Trials/Use Cases: Knowledge & App development
Lean multi-actor approach
3. EVALUATION
1. CO-DESIGN
2. IMPLEMENTATION
P1
P2
LARGE
SCALE
P3
Data Science &
Information management
Business Modelling,
Governance & Ethics
Ecosystem Development
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Digital Innovation Hub: local one-stop shop
Incubators
Government
Cooperatives
Farmer communities
Investors
Others
Advisories
Research organisations
Start-ups
Education & training institutes
Large companies
Industry associationsCompetence Center
Other Competence
Centers
Orchestrator
Other
DIHs
Innovation
Experiments
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DIH innovation services
Ecosystem
• Community building
• Strategy development
• Ecosystem learning
• Project development
• Lobbying
Technology
• Strategic RDI
• Contract research
• Technical support on scale-up
• Provision of technology
infrastructure
• Testing and validation
Business
• Incubator/accelerator
support
• Access to finance
• Skills and education
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The 5 basic concepts of SmartAgriHubs
Innovation service
maturity model for
DIHs
Innovation
Portal
Innovation
Experiments
Layered network
of DIHs & CCs in
Regional Clusters
Digital Innovation
Hubs
Competence
Centres
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SmartAgriHubs’ challenge: expand!
Ecosystem
108+ Partners
Involved covering all EU
68 partners are SMEs
54% of budget allocated to SMEs
140 DIHs in the existing Network
covering all 28 Member States
Regional Approach
9 Regional Clusters
Attract 260 New DIHs
Digital
Innovation
hubs
Impact
30M additional funding
Mobilized from other sources(public,
regional, national and private)
80 new digital solutions
Introduced into the market
2M Farms involved in digitisation
Open Calls
6M Euros distributed through
Open Calls
75% Open Call budget to SMEs
70 New Innovation Experiments
28 FIEs
22 Countries involved
13 Cross-border collaboration FIEs
(47%)
Flagship
innovation
experiments
Arable 8
(28,6)
Fruit 4
(14,2%)Vegetables 5
(17,8%)
Livestock 10
(35,7%)
Aquaculture 1
(3,5%)
5
sectors
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Notes de l'éditeur
These are some flagship projects that I just want to mention before I move to FarmDigital
This has become our general project approach in many projects...
This slide provides an overview of the project aim and objectives.
Through these projects we have developed a success formula in approaching the challenge of ICT and Information Management in Agri-Food :
Trials and use cases form the core, in which we jointly develop as research and business organisations, knowledge and application through a lean multi-actor approach
This means that we quickly develop minimum viable products with involvement of all relevant stakeholders and upscale these through several cycles of development
In parallel we create synergy by
Technical integration: open architectures, standard that can be used as generic building blocks in the trials and use cases
Governance and business modelling: solve issues that arise from the trials and use cases regarding ownership, privacy, trust, etc. and support the businesses in developing sustainable business plans for the apps, services and organization structures that are being developed
Ecosystem Development – support the trials and use cases in embedding their solutions in global ecosystems and upgrading them to a large scale
Project coordination and management is trivial, but we have shown that Wageningen University and Research is very capable to fulfil this role in large public-private projects
This integrated approach will guarantee long-term, sustainable results from these projects.
IoF2020 believes that it is important for a large scale take‐up to maximize synergies across multiple use case systems.
As a consequence, much attention is paid to ensuring the interoperability of multiple use case systems and the reuse of IoT components across them. The figure shows the architectural approach to achieve this during design, development, implementation and deployment.
To enable reuse of components, IoF2020 will provide a catalogue of reusable system components, which can be integrated in the IoT systems of multiple use cases of the project. It will include as much as possible existing components from previous and running projects and (open source) initiatives, including FIWARE, FIspace, etc.
In this example WUR as a whole acts as a DIH delivering several services that orchestrate various players outside the DIH.
Ultimately, this should result in newly, funded Innovation Experiments, where several of these players are collaborating on digital innovations.
WDCC delivers various competences within the WUR-DIH to (i) facilitate the orchestration process, (ii) setup an innovation experiment and (iii) execute innovation experiments
An example:
A bright start-up has a splendid data-driven product that is expected to help farmers to improve crop disease management. However, it is still a prototype that needs to be upgraded to a real, marketable product in an innovation experiment. They knock on the door of the WUR-DIH for help.
WUR-DIH uses its network of farmers and cooperatives to get end-users interested to experiment and validate the product. There’s a also a need for an appropriate data infrastructure that is robust and compliant with the state-of-the-art security standards. WDCC brings in their knowledge and network of (large) ICT companies to advise on the right infrastructure and helps to choose (i).
WUR-DIH also does matchmaking in their network of public and private funders to find the financial resources to carry out the innovation experiment.
They help the start-up and the established multi-actor network to write a high-quality project plan. This plan requires a good data management plan. WDCC is delivering a services to write a good data management plan (ii).
Finally the innovation experiment is conducted and WDCC helps to analyse the data by connecting the right data scientists from WUR to the innovation experiment (iii)
Potentially, WDCC can also have this function for other DIHs in the whole SmartAgriHubs network of DIHs, as other competence centers can also be involved in the WUR-DIH.