SmartAgiFood
Smart Food and Agribusiness: Future Internet for Safe and Healthy Food from Farm to Fork
SmartAgriFood is a two year FP7 FI-PPP project which started 1 April, 2011, which addresses the food and agribusiness as a use case for the Future Internet. The project will develop use cases based on extensive user requirements analysis and scenario building focussing on three areas:
- Smart farming, including sophisticated and robust broadband sensing and monitoring of animals and plants, with a particular focus on Precision Farming.
- Smart agri-logistics, including intelligent transport and real-time logistics of agri-food products.
- Smart food awareness, focussing enabling the consumer with information concerning safety, health, environmental impact and animal welfare
Further details about the FI PPP initiative are available here.
Aston University's press release is available here.
Aston's Contribution
The Aston team consisted of Dr. Christopher Brewster and Dr. Liz York, and Aston led the WP 100 on harmonisation and strategy. As part of this we wrote or supervised the production of four deliverables over the life of the project.
Deliverables are available from the SmartAgriFood project website.
A number of publications resulted including the following (as of June 2014):
Alexandros Kaloxylos, Aggelos Groumas, Vassilis Sarris, Lampros Katsikas, Panagis Magdalinos, Eleni Antoniou, Zoi Politopoulou, Sjaak Wolfert, Christopher Brewster, Robert Eigenmann, Carlos Maestre Terol. A cloud based Farm Management System: Architecture and Implementation. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2014, Vol 100, pp168-179. bibtex
Alexandros Kaloxylos, Sjaak Wolfert, Tim Verwaart, Carlos Maestre Terrol, Christopher Brewster and Harald Sundmaeker; The use of future Internet technologies in the Agriculture and Food Sectors: Integrating the Supply Chain. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA 2013), 19-22 September, 2013 Corfu, Greece. bibtex
Michael Van Bekkum, Linda Oosterheert, Jack Verhoosel and Christopher Brewster; From Syntatic Standards to Semantic Standards in the Agri-Food Logistics Domain. Proceedings of the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture Conference (EFITA 2013)(23-27 June, 2013), Turin, Italy.
Elizabeth York and Christopher Brewster; The representation of Food in Social Media Forum Twitter. Proceedings of the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture Conference (EFITA 2013)(23-27 June, 2013), Turin, Italy.
Christopher Brewster, Sjaak Wolfert and Harald Sundmaeker. Identifying the ICT challenges of the Agri-Food sector to define the Architectural Requirements for a Future Internet Core Platform, Proceeding of the eChallenges Conference (17-19 October 2012), Lisbon, Portugal. bibtex