1. PROJECT OVERVIEW WWW.FOODSAFETYMARKET.EU 1
TheFSM
The Food Safety Market: an SME-powered industrial data platform to boost the
competitiveness of European food certification
Co-funded by the Horizon 2020
Framework Programme of the European Union
Grant Agreement Number 871703
THEFSM PROJECT
www. foodsafetymarket.eu
MARCH, 2021
Sousanna Charalambidou
Head of TUV AUSTRIA Cyprus
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PROJECT OBJECTIVES
• To understand in depth the needs of critical business scenarios on food safety specifications &
translate them into detailed technical, organisational, legal and commercial requirements for
TheFSM platform.
• To develop both the backbone and the front-end services of TheFSM platform so that it may
fully support secured and controlled data sharing workflows and transactions critical to
inspection and certification
• To set up eleven (5) pilots where food companies and their supply chain stakeholders will test,
improve and drive the adoption of the data platform and the linked software tools.
• To design, implement and validate a commercial strategy that will drive the adoption of TheFSM
from TÜV AUSTRIA subsidiaries and other stakeholders around the world.
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KEY TECH ADVANCEMENTS OF TheFSM
1. Food safety data interoperability and semantics: TheFSM will incorporate advanced semantic
technologies that can enable highly sophisticated data interoperability and integration
capabilities.
2. Multilinguality support for localized food safety applications: TheFSM will offer advanced
multilinguality for both textual information and data ontologies, based on the expertise and
technology stack of the partners.
3. Automated and smart contracts for food safety data transactions: TheFSM will offer a multi-
sided data brokerage service, where actors like farmers can act as “traders” of their data, that
can be used for purposes of certification, product risk assessment and verification.
4. Real-time processing and big data storage & visualization: TheFSM will incorporate big data
indexing, processing and visualization capabilities to support real-time data processing and food
risk model execution.
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CLOUD WEB AND MOBILE PLATFORM
ACCESS FARMING DATA FROM THE OFFICE OR DIRECTLY FROM THE FIELDS
OFFLINE MODE
WORKS ON
DESKTOPS, TABLETS
AND SMARTPHONES
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CONTRACTED
FARMERS
CLOUD SOFTWARE PLATFORM
FOR AG SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
FARMER
REGISTRY
CONTRACT
MANAGEMENT
BEST PRODUCTION
PRACTICES
INPUT
PLANNING
CROP PRODUCTION
MONITORING
ANALYTICS
& REPORTING
SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGER’S ACCOUNT
Sales
Production
Procurement
Marketing
Finance
Infrastructure
FOOD PROCESSING COMPANY
CROP
TRACEABILITY
COMMUNICATION
WITH FARMERS
THE FSM
PLATFORM
SUPPLY CHAIN
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FARMER ACCOUNT
CROP
MANAGEMENT
BEST GROWING
PRACTICES
FIELD RECORD
KEEPING
FARM
ANALYTICS
FINANCE
MANAGEMENT
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
CONTRACTED
FARMERS
Sales
Production
Procurement
Marketing
Finance
Infrastructure
FOOD PROCESSING COMPANY
PEST AND DISEASE
ALARMS
QUESTIONS
FOR ADVISORS
CLOUD SOFTWARE PLATFORM
FOR AG SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
THE FSM
PLATFORM
SUPPLY CHAIN
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CONSUMER
PUBLIC ACCESS
PRODUCT
TRACEABILITY
REPORT
SHOWCASE
LOCAL FARMERS
AND FIELDS
CONTRACTED
FARMERS
Sales
Production
Procurement
Marketing
Finance
Infrastructure
FOOD PROCESSING COMPANY
CLOUD SOFTWARE PLATFORM
FOR AG SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
CONSUMERS
TRACEABILITY
QR CODE FOR
PACKAGING
THE FSM PLATFORM
SUPPLY CHAIN