FarmSustainaBl

FarmSustainaBl is a 3-year ERA-NET project within the ERA-GAS / ICT-AGRI / SusAn joint call which started on 1 Oct. 2019

Project title: Enabling Smart Livestock Farming Technologies for Environmental Sustainability using Blockchain

Acronym: FarmSustainaBl

Project’s identification number: 118 ⁄ 2019

Project leader: Dr. Alexandru Vulpe (BEAM Innovation SRL)

Project financed by UEFISCDI through the European and International Cooperation Program

Phase 1 – Requirements analysis – Research report on functional and non-functional requirements. 31/12/2019

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Act 1.1 – Requirements analysis – A2(A) Industrial research in effective collaboration or dissemination of results

Phase 2 – State of the art and use cases – Research report on the current state of knowledge and use cases – 30/06/2020

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Act 2.1 – State of the art – A2 (A) – Industrial research in effective collaboration or dissemination of results

Act 2.2 – Use cases and business cases – A2 (A) – Industrial research in effective collaboration or dissemination of results

Phase 3 – Architectures, methods and tools – Research report on architecture, functional specifications and tools needed for data analysis – 31/12/2020

Act 3.1 – Defining the architecture and functional specifications – A2 (A) – Industrial research in effective collaboration or with the dissemination of results

Act 3.2 – Methods and tools for data analysis in precision agriculture – A2 (A) – Industrial research in effective collaboration or dissemination of results

Phase 4 – Defining the platform – Research report on protocols, blockchain architecture and integration environment 30/06/2021

Act 4.1 – Protocols for data transmission from sensors – A2 (A) – Industrial research in effective collaboration or dissemination of results

Act 4.2 – Definition of the blockchain system architecture – A2 (A) – Industrial research in effective collaboration or dissemination of results

Act 4.3 – Initialization of the environment of continuous integration – A2 (A) – Industrial research in effective collaboration or with the dissemination of results

Phase 5 – Evaluation and validation – Test and validation report of the components – 31/12/2021

Act 5.1 – Defining the validation of evaluation criteria – A2 (A) – Industrial research in effective collaboration or dissemination of results

Act 5.2 – Testing and evaluation of system components – A3 (A) – Experimental development in effective collaboration or dissemination of results

Phase 6 – Integration, piloting and dissemination – Report on system integration and piloting, and dissemination of project results – 30/09/2022

Act 6.1 – System integration – 6.1.1 Part – System integration

Act 6.2 – Testing the integrated system – 6.2.1 Part – Functional and non-functional testing of the integrated system

Act 6.3 – Installation of the system at the beneficiary – 6.3.1 Part – System installation in the relevant environment

Act 6.4 – Piloting the system – 6.4.1 Part – Piloting the system in the relevant environment

Act 6.4 – Dissemination – 6.5.1 Part – Participation in events

The main objective of the project is to apply a holistic approach for decreasing the GHG emissions derived from intensive livestock farming by optimizing the livestock production. For doing this, the consortium will monitor the animal feed, the animal behaviour and characteristics and the stable environment. Specifically, IoT devices will be installed in the farm for monitoring key parameters of
i) the stable environment (temperature, humidity, gas sensors (NOx, COx, CH4, NH3, etc.),
ii) the animal (accelerometer, motion sensor, weight sensor, etc.) and
iii) the feed (flow sensor, weight sensor, humidity sensor etc.).

The main objective of the project is to apply a holistic approach for decreasing the GHG emissions derived from intensive livestock farming by optimizing the livestock production. For doing this, the consortium will monitor the animal feed, the animal behaviour and characteristics and the stable environment. Specifically, IoT devices will be installed in the farm for monitoring key parameters of i) the stable environment (temperature, humidity, gas sensors (NOx, COx, CH4, NH3, etc.), ii) the animal (accelerometer, motion sensor, weight sensor, etc.) and iii) the feed (flow sensor, weight sensor, humidity sensor etc.).

Publications

I. Marcu, G. Suciu, C. Bălăceanu, A. Vulpe, and A.-M. Drăgulinescu, “Arrowhead Technology for Digitalization and Automation Solution: Smart Cities and Smart Agriculture,” Sensors, vol. 20, no. 5, p. 1464, Mar. 2020, DOI: 10.3390/s20051464

S. G. Obreja and A. Vulpe, “Evaluation of an Indoor Localization Solution Based on Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons,” 2020 13th International Conference on Communications (COMM), Bucharest, Romania, 2020, pp. 227-231, doi: 10.1109/COMM48946.2020.9141987.

P. Niloofar, S. Lazarova-Molnar, A. Vulpe, G. Suciu, M. Bălănescu, “Modeling and Simulation for Decision Support in Precision Livestock Farming”, 2020 Winter Simulation Conference, Florida, US, 2020, accepted

O. Belkadi, Y. Laaziz, A. Vulpe and S. Halunga, “OpenDaylight and OpenNebula Integration: testing traffic management,” The TELFOR Journal, ISSN 2334-9905, submitted

M. Bălănescu, A. Bădicu, G. Suciu, C. Poenaru, A. Vulpe “Decision support platform for intelligent and sustainable farming,” IEEE 26th International Symposium for Design and Technology in Electronic Packaging (SIITME), 2020, submitted