DIPOL Project

New H2020 project: AIMHiGH project Kick-off meeting took place at the University of Donja Gorica on 26 June 2021. The title of the project is AI/ML Enabled by HPC for Edge Camera Devices for the Next Generation Hen Farms and it is funded as an application experiment within Horizon 2020 FF4EuroHPC project. The AIMHiGH project proposes the use of HPC and deep learning AI to create prediction models that can be deployed on the edge devices equipped with camera sensors for the use in IoT/AI solutions in the poultry sector. UDG will be providing HPC and domain expertise through NCC Montenegro and FoodHub Centre of Excellence.

Our new H2020 project called TRACEWINDU has just started. On June 9 and June 11, we took part in the project Kick-off Meeting. This project is one of the main outputs of the partnership development efforts of our researchers. The project is coordinated by the University of Barcelona and there are partners from Spain, Italy, France, Montenegro, Serbia and Argentina involved. This project is funded under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange funding schema.

DESCRIPTION of the TRACEWINDU project (from CORDIS) – Each year the wine industry loses billions of euro from counterfeit wine and illicit trades. The EU-funded TRACEWINDU project aims to ensure and improve the traceability of wine along the entire value chain, with intelligent labelling and data recording through blockchain technology. This will allow consumers to make purchases based on complete and reliable information about the production process. In addition to this, the project will work towards improving vineyard productivity by using plant protection products as well as geographic origin analysis as part of a multi-approach strategy to ensure wine traceability/authentication.

Link: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101007979

Congratulations to our students that formed team GoDigital and successfully participated in the VIRAL hackathon. The topic was the use of IT in agriculture and they won creating a solution for smart irrigation based on the IoT and Cloud for which they earned the first place! More about the event at Tehnopolis website.

UDG participated in the panel titled “Smart Tags, Circular Economy and Personalization” that took place on May 12th at the Digital Summit organized by IoT Solutions World Congress.
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Event Abstract:
The rapid rise of consumers scanning makes GS1 Digital Link a game-changer for the consumer products industry — in particular, apparel, beauty, and luxury brands but also brands desiring to deliver very specific targeted content to their customers such as nutraceuticals,” says Dominique Guinard, CTO and Co-founder, EVRYTHNG and Co-chair of the GS1 Digital Link Standard Development Work Group. 74% of consumers claim to switch to a brand that provides more in-depth product information. In this session we will discuss the use of smart tags for circular economy and personalization. Product identities are converging to the Web and tag prices are coming down. We will also discuss the recent EU-wide Digital Green Certificate as the certificate will include a QR code with information about the holder’s vaccination, test or recovery status as well as a digital signature to authenticate that information.

Event info: Link

Slides: Link

The organizers of the IoT Solutions World Congress that will take place in Barcelona this fall are organizing a Digital Summit that through their virtual platform. The Summit will take place on May 11-12. In two-days, from the comfort of your home or office, you can learn from a variety of content, hear from awe-inspiring leaders, chat with thousands of peers, and discover the latest disruptive technologies from leading vendors. More information about the Digital Summit and registration can be found at the following link.

Researchers from the University of Donja Gorica will be taking part in this virtual event during the dedicated virtual sessions. You can learn more about IoT Solutions World Congress and the main event in fall at this link.

For the tenth year in a row, the University of Donja Gorica is organizing the Research Day, which is traditionally held on April 4, and which also marks the Students’ Day. As part of the Research Day, researchers and students present their research papers and projects that have been published and implemented in the current academic year.

The research day is organized with the aim of acquainting the general public and students of basic, master’s and doctoral studies with the research conducted at UDG, their methodology, as well as the data that already exist from those researches. In addition, the Research Day aims to encourage quality and stimulate scientific research, then promote the research of Montenegrin scientists, as well as networking with regional and international initiatives.

Respecting the recommendations and measures of the Ministry of Health of Montenegro, the Day of Research in 2021, unfortunately, cannot be organized as in previous years, but still it was not given up to celebrate it.

Having in mind the above, we present to you only some of the projects that are being implemented at UDG. More information and project presentations are available at the UDG website here.

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.

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.

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.

Project DIPOL was featured in the paper “Digital Transformation and Transparency in Wine Supply Chain Using OCR and DLT” by S. Cakic, A. Ismailisufi, T. Popovic, S. Krco, N. Gligoric, S. Kupresanin, and V. Maras. More about the conference at the following link.

ABSTRACT – This paper describes an effort to utilize IoT, OCR, and blockchain technology to create wine track and trace system evaluated in a real-life environment. The research is focused on digital transformation in traditional wine supply chain, using computer vision to read the existing serial numbers labeled on bottles, so as to uniquely identifying individual bottles of wine and track the item life-cycle. The system provides mobile app to allow end consumers to scan each wine bottle and learn more about that particular product instance, its origin, authenticity, rating and potentially other characteristics. Status of each bottle is updated every time it has been scanned. To ensure the transparency of the recorded data and information immutability, the blockchain technology is used to record all relevant information into the ledger, e.g. all status updates for each item. The developed service enables tracking of a bottle throughout the supply chain, from a producer to a consumer, where traceability story is still not finalized. The consumed serial numbers are kept in the ledger, to avoid counterfeit scenario when one “bottle” (i.e. one serial number) is being sold multiple times. The life-cycle of bottle and its status changes are recorded, and the authenticity ensured facilitating verifiable identity of the authorized handlers and cutting edge cryptography, thus providing additional trust in the solution and transparency to all stakeholders. The paper is available through IEEE Xplore database at the following link.