SmartAgriFood2:Farming in the Cloud

Dr. Sjaak WolfertLEI Wageningen UR

e-mail: sjaak.wolfert@wur.nl

Professional background

• Sr. Scientific Researcher on Information Management and ICT in Agri-Food at Wageningen University and Research Centre

• Project coordinator– agriXchange– SmartAgriFood– FIspace

• Partner in ICT-agri ERAnet• 2007-2009: President of EFITA• 2011-now: member of the FI-PPP Steering Board

Farming in the cloud?

Farming in the Cloud

Societal Challenges

• Feed the world within boundaries of Earth’s carrying capacity• Food safety and transparency of production• Produce healthy food• Recycling and waste reduction

Current Trends and Developments: IoT

• Smart Farming: precision agriculture, horticulture and livestock farming

• Remote (satellite) and near sensing and monitoring

• Robots and precisionmechanization

• (Big) data

Objectives and target outcomes

Objective• large scale expansion and take-up of smart farming FI services and

applications based on previous results of FI-PPP in combination with the use of (open) data.

Target outcomes• smart services & applications for 'farming in the cloud‘• EU-wide, sustainable ecosystem of users, developers, business generators,

etc. for further exploitation and expansion beyond the FI-PPP programme

Approach: use the FIspace platform and elaborate on the current Smart Farming trials and existing ecosystems

Ecosystem 1

Ecosystem 2

Ecosystem n

Possible examples of Smart Applications and Services

• Pests and disease advisory• Weather Alert• Machine breakdown• Provide information to hikers• Connecting consumers and producers• Nutrient recycling management• Market information• Route planning in the field• Greenhouse climate management• Animal welfare• ...

Next FI development stage?

Thank you for your attention!

More information:Dr. Sjaak Wolfert (coordinator)

LEI Wageningen URe-mail: sjaak.wolfert@wur.nl