Company 13. jul Plantaže hosted a meeting for their management and employees to present projects on precision viticulture and digital solutions for applications in the wine industry. Several presentations were given by the representatives from the Development sector in Plantaze, University of Donja Gorica, and DunavNET. The most prominent were the presentations of project activities under H2020 DEMETER, DIPOL (Ministry of Science of Montenegro), Erasmus+ VIRAL, and H2020 TagItWine. The presenters gave the chronology of the partnership development, and discussed the results achieved through these projects. A special attention was given to the upcoming activities under H2020 DEMETER project and the possibility to organize training events and workshops for the company employees to use the installed precision viticulture equipment and digital farm management system.
Representatives from Plantaze, UDG and DunavNET gave presentations during the eventAround 20 people form Plantaze attended the meeting
Our student at the Faculty for Information Systems and Technologies, mr Ivan Jovovic, defended his BSc thesis today on IoT applications in agriculture.
ABSTRACT – This thesis illustrates that it is possible to use Arduino platform in the IoT in order to automate certain processes in the field of agriculture. This thesis explores, in detail, temporary and future abilities of Arduino and Internet of things in everyday life. In the practical part, a portion of those possibilities is proved by construction of the system for automating irrigation processes and collecting important parameters. Thesis explores and proves functionality, simplicity and cost-effectiveness of this practical solution.
BSc thesis on IoT applications in agriculture using Arduino platform and sensors
The paper called “A novel solution for counterfeit prevention in the wine industry based on IoT, smart tags, and crowd-sourced information” by T. Popovic, S. Krco, V. Maras, L. Hakola, S. Radonjic, R. van Kranenburg, and S. Sandi has been accepted for publication in Elsevier Internet of Things journal. The paper is summarizing efforts done during the H2020 TagItWine pilot project that were continued within the collaboration in DIPOL project. The paper discusses food tracking and tracing use case aiming counterfeit prevention in the wine industry. The paper is available online at the following link.
ABSTRACT – This paper describes a novel solution for counterfeit prevention and brand protection in the wine industry. The presented approach combines Internet of Things, Cloud, and Mobile technologies with the use of custom designed smart tags applied to each bottle of wine in order to provide food track and trace capabilities. The smart tags combine QR code with additional information printed with an invisible photochromatic ink. The tags are activated by flashlight on mobile devices during the scanning. Before scanning, users are prompted to select the context of the wine bottle (in store, sold, consumed) in order to provide additional information about each bottle as it moves through the supply chain. This information is used by the custom-made heuristic to help users and wine makers detect issues with individual instances of the product. The system was implemented as a pilot project that was executed during a period of 6 months. End users showed a great interest in the possibility to implement such a system, consumers liked the interaction with the product using the mobile app and smart tags, while wine makers expressed their interest in the solution. Besides counterfeit that affects profit, the benefits of such systems include improved brand protection and reduced risk of health hazards.
