Digital Transformation of Agriculture and Food Supply Chain in Montenegro
The Ministry of Science held a press conference on the occasion of announcing the results of the Special Call for Covid-19 scientific research projects yesterday. UDG is one of the winners of a grant from the Ministry of Science for a project that aims to provide support to companies to deal with COVID19 impact by means of digitalization and digital payments. More info at the MNA site: link.
A conference publication on Precision Viticulture was presented at the 9th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (IEEE MECO’2020) Conference. The paper title is “Precision Viticulture Using Wireless Sensor Network” and the authors are V. Maras, T. Popovic, S. Gajinov, M. Mugosa, V. Popovic, A. Savovic, K. Pavicevic, and V. Mirovic. The paper is a result of collaboration between the company “13. jul Plantaže”, DunavNET and UDG. It is focused on irrigation optimization and this is a part of DIPOL cross-project collaboration effort.
ABSTRACT—This Viticulture has always, by definition, been a “precision” production: detailed knowledge of not only individual vineyards, but also each grapevine individually, provided detailed programming of work operations and production factors adapted for each parcel individually or, better said, for each part of a single parcel. The spatial variability of a particular vineyard can be due to any difference in any element or property for each of the natural, biological, agronomic factors which influence vine performance and the expression of grape and wine characters. This research is aimed at developing methods to quantify temporal variability observed within vineyards and to use data processing tools to assist wine producers and viticulturists to control, analyse and make decisions from so-provided information. Combining the technologies and methodologies will allow wine growers to improve and optimize production systems by taking into account technical and economic aspects of management as well as environmental issues at an intra-parcel (sub-block) level.
Conference link: http://embeddedcomputing.me/en/meco-2020
This webinar presents an overview of current EU (H2020) research in the Agri Tech space, mainlyfocusing on the two new recently funded large scale pilot projects; ATLAS and DEMETER.
Presenters will delve into the research and pilots within both projects focusing on 3 key elements: Technology, Multi-Actor Ecosystem and Challenges and Future Directions.
Senka Gajinov, DunavNET & Tomo Popovic, UDG will give a presentation titled “Piloting Activities 2: Transparent farm to fork supply chain – pilot” in the afternoon session.
You can register at the following link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4221739129465177355
The European Commission, AIOTI and CREATE-IoT will hold a webinar focused on Data Sharing Agriculture on June 10.
The workshop will address the current framework for data sharing in the European agri-food sector by focusing on the “EU code of conduct on agricultural data sharing by contractual agreement”, which reflects the agreement of the main stakeholders on the principles that should regulate agricultural data sharing, building trust for the farming sector from the very beginning. The workshop will review current initiatives built upon the code of conduct.
The second part of the workshop will be devoted to make agriculture data sharing a reality. From high-level generic architectures to practical implementations in real agri-food use cases, the workshop will discuss on the proper technologies, architectures and standards that are needed for achieving a true European data space for agriculture.
More info at:
https://www.opendei.eu/event/2626/
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-sharing-in-agriculture-towards-a-european-agriculture-data-space-tickets-106895122188?ref=estw
To learn more about the objectives of DEMETER and the achievements to date, we chat to Kevin Doolin, Project Coordinator of DEMETER and Director of Innovation at Telecommunication Software and Systems Group (TSSG).
Kevin outlines how DEMETER is a significant stepping stone towards meeting some of the requirements of the European Green Deal and helping farmers with #sustainability and higher quality production with potentially less effort and more automation. He also discusses some of the challenges as a result of COVID19 (source: H2020 DEMETER).
We performed a quick service call in Plantaze. It is nice to see that peaches are growing nicely and the orchard is doing well. Smart irrigation node required physical reset. All stations operational.
First newsletter issue on H2020 DEMETER was published in April, 2020. You can download the PDF version of the newsletter here.
DIPOL and H2020 DEMETER projects were featured in the 2019 Bulletin of the Ministry of Science of Montenegro. The bulletin is published annually and describes the most successful scientific projects in Montenegro. More info at link.
Bulletin (English) can be found here.
Bulletin link (Montenegrin) can be found here.
Faculty for Information Systems and Technologies, Universty of Donja Gorica, signed a cooperation agreement with the technology company Blockstruct GmbH from Vienna, Austria. Blockstruct provides a blockchain platform called 0bsnetwork aimed at real-life blockchain applications. In addition to developing 0bsnetwork public blockchain platform, Blockstruct also offers services of blockchain application development, private blockchain deployment, enterprise blockchain Integration, etc. This cooperation agreement includes activities such as promoting and facilitating digitalization of business processes, developing blockchain-based infrastructure, platforms and applications for business use of the technology, and educate students and business professionals on blockchain technology. One of the first goals will be to explore the use of blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chains in Montenegro.
New IPA project at UDG: ECOMON – Internet of Things Laboratory for Real-Time Ecological Monitoring has just started at UDG. This project aims at utilizing Internet of Things (IoT) technology and state-of-the-art sensors for ecological and environmental monitoring. The project includes implementation of an in-house IoT lab for ecomonitoring at University of Donja Gorica, as well as realization of field lab based on installation of IoT sensor nodes and sensors throughout Montenegro. More info at the ECOMON webste.
This project is of great importance for agricultural sector in Montenegro and we are looking forward to a cross-project collaboration with ECOMON.
