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DEMETER approach towards an agricultural interoperability space
The latest advances of technologies such as IoT, AI and Big Data, among others, have boosted the adoption of smart farming practices that emphasise the use of ICT in farm management processes to exploit the available data. This, however, has led to an explosion of smart farming solutions and data availability that brings new challenges...
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The farmer’s perspective on data
In this article, we talk to Ionel Nedelcu, an Agronomist at Sopema Farm in Ialomita County, Romania. Ion is participating in the DEMETER pilot ‘IoT Corn Decision Support System Platform‘. This pilot aims to improve water management, including water quality, save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your...
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Big data in agriculture and how we do it at John Deere
by Morteza Abdipour Chenarestansofla, John Deere, Intelligent Solution Group, Kaiserslautern, Germany Bio My name is Morteza Abdipour Chenarestansofla. I’m based in Germany and work as a product engineer at John Deere, European Technology & Innovation Center. I have +7 years’ experience with geospatial and satellite imagery data and +3 years industrial experience collaborating with farmers...
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Helping potato farmers make better informed decisions
The goal of the pilot “open platform for improved crop monitoring on potato farms” is to assist farmers in making sense of the data they collect, specifically data from harvesting machine. AVR Connect, the IoT cloud platform that collects data from AVR machinery (potato planters, trailed harvesters, and self-propelled harvesters), has been linked with WatchITgrow,...
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Postdoctoral researcher, Stacey Hendriks, tells us about her research in DEMETER
In our latest blog we chat to Stacey Hendriks, a postdoctoral researcher with Teagasc and involved in the DEMETER pilot ‘Proactive Milk Quality Control’. Stacey tells us about her background and the work she is undertaking in DEMETER. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your research background? I am a postdoctoral researcher...
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DEMETER representatives meet Irish Minister of State
On Monday 11th July, DEMETER representatives met with Martin Heydon, TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in Ireland, with responsibility for Research & Development, Farm Safety and New Market Development. Minister Heydon was attending an event at Walton Institute, Waterford to launch the AgriDISCRETE Digitalisation Roadmap. The roadmap...
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Paper published in Cloud Computing and Data Science
A new paper written by researchers participating in DEMETER has been published in Cloud Computing and Data Science. The paper titled ‘Map Whiteboard Cloud Solution for Collaborative Editing of Geographic Information’ addresses how Map Whiteboard technology allows for multiple parties to collaboratively develop maps and map data. The work received support from several EU projects...
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Interview with DEMETER farmer
Potato farmer Jacob van den Borne participates in the pilot on “Open Platform for Improved Crop Monitoring in Potato Farms”. He is a pioneer in precision farming. Jacob collects a lot of data from his fields and uses the data to optimize field activities. He uses various platforms to visualize and analyze the data, including...
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New Publication: Quality of Information within Internet of Things Data
Researchers Tomás Alcañiz, Aurora González-Vidal, Alfonso P. Ramallo and Antonio F. Skarmeta of University of Murcia have published a Chapter called ‘Quality of Information within Internet of Things Data’ in ‘Data Integrity and Quality’, edited by Santhosh Kumar Balan. The work is partly sponsored by DEMETER. A full copy of the chapter is available here...
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Farmer Perspectives on Data 2021 – Report
Trust in Food, Farm Journal and The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) have produced a report ‘Farmer Perspectives on Data 2021’ which details actionable insights to empower businesses and farmers to scale farm-level production data activities. The lack of a robust, integrated data ecosystem that starts on the farm presents a major challenge for efforts to increase...
