FarmScan

Type	Open Call No.	Funds granted
Twin AE	OC 3	€100,000.00

Challenge

As conventional agriculture is failing to provide a sustainable supply of healthy food to the growing population, destroying topsoil at an alarming rate and producing enormous CO2 emissions, there is a need to enable agriculture to transition towards sustainable and even regenerative practice. The target is to ensure a more resilient and productive industry that is less resource-intensive and produces fewer emissions while sequestering significant amounts of CO2.

Solutions provided

The project proposes four key processes:

non-invasive crop inspection with drone-mounted hyperspectral sensors and satellites;
data processing to establish plant condition;
growth predictions and precise fertiliser application maps to achieve optimum growth;
integration to farm machinery for automated fertiliser application.

Exploiting satellite radar data enables scanning up to 30 cm into soil, monitoring land variability and land surface conditions, providing real-time data every 3 days. Insights are generated for adequate response/implementation for different soil types.

Consortium strength

The multidisciplinary teams from the two organisations complement each other in terms of expertise concerning the agri-food market sector, drones, robots, advanced analytics of big data, advanced algorithms development (AI) and business development. The consortium is led by Termodron, which is also more focused on application, while Elif Lab focuses on extracting value from the available data to increase the effectiveness of the solution with predictable outcomes, monitoring and processes automation.

DigiFed supports the project through continual monitoring and innovation management.

Business development

The exploitation is planned through value offered by opening-up conservation and regenerative agriculture interventions in addition to the current precision agriculture offer. The scalable solution (Software as a Service – SaaS platform) delivers predictive modelling and decision support across a broad range of interventions. The resulting economic benefits are measurable through cost reduction at the farm level. The associated environmental impact is significant in terms of damage limitation to the environment and active regeneration of natural capital. From the social perspective, the project offers improvements concerning the standard of living across the industry and guaranteeing a sustainable food supply chain.

Companies involved

Termodron’s knowledge helps farmers practice the possibilities of digitalisation and data analysis. The company’s story starts in 2018 with early trials on wheat fertilisation using drone-driven multispectral images. Due to efficient results and a constant drive for learning, Termodron collaborates with some of the largest Slovenian farms and agriculture companies, and keep expanding basic and additional services.

Website	Company size	Country	Industry sector
https://termodron.si/en		Slovenia	Agritech & Foodtech

ELIF LAB is an innovative company that operates in the field of data science and artificial intelligence. The company masters complexity, helping organisations extract value from data in order to reduce costs, increase sales and effectiveness of operations, predict results, monitor and automate processes. Through a rigorous working methodology and the use of proprietary technologies and descriptive and predictive mathematical models, ELIF LAB extracts value from data of different types and from multiple sources.

Website	Company size	Country	Industry sector
www.eliflab.com		Italy	ICT/AI

AVL creates innovative and affordable technologies to effectively reduce CO2 by applying a multi-energy carrier strategy for all applications – from hybrid to battery electric and fuel cell technologies. The company supports customers throughout the entire development process from the ideation phase to serial production. To accelerate the vision of automated and connected mobility AVL has established competencies in the fields of ADAS, autonomous driving and digitalization.

Website	Company size	Country	Industry sector
www.avl.com/		Austria