The overall food system nearly reached the next strategic inflection point. IoT technology, data sharing and consumers’ demand for sustainable production methods are pushing limits. More than ever, agricultural production needs to deploy knowledge intensive farming practices and increase data sharing. Existing data exchange platforms need to become open data exchange ecosystems managing data owners’ consent and facilitate dynamic collaboration of stakeholders. This shall increase productivity and reduce food loss and waste of the circular food system from Farm2Fork. FIWARE open-source software and agri-food data models are a cornerstone to facilitate this development. New sources of data can be made accessible, while decreasing effort for aggregating, processing, providing, and accessing data. This session is presenting different practical examples for data usage at the farm site and of partners collaborating along the food supply chain towards consumers helping them to learn about their choices. The session will also summarise challenges and opportunities of the future of connected agriculture. This is specifically considering a technological perspective. At the same time, you will have the opportunity to meet colleagues from different sectors and business domains, aiming at building the foundation of the future data economy for food systems. This will offer the opportunity to learn about synergies considering the close integration of agriculture in smart villages as well as advanced food production and delivery systems that are at the heart of smart cities.

1. Vienna, Austria
12-13 June, 2023
#FIWARESummit
From Data
to Value
OPEN SOURCE
OPEN STANDARDS
OPEN COMMUNITY
The Future of Connected
Agriculture:
Challenges and Opportunities
, Austria
12-13 JUne, 202
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Who we are
John Wood
Smart Cities Business Developer
Libelium
More than 17 years of experience on IoT
We strongly believe in IoT
as a tool to help in
decision-making to build
a more sustainable
and datacratized society
To be leaders by designing
more accurate, reliable,
and environmentally
friendly products, creating
synergies with the best
professionals in every field.
Together, we are
committed to developing
reliable solutions that
improve our society and
face the next global
challenges.

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Where we are
Headquarters
Avda. María Zambrano 31
Edificio WTCZ, Torre Este Planta 7
50018 Zaragoza
Warehouse
Calle Gutenberg, 9-11
50015, Zaragoza
Calibration Lab
Calle Luis Buñuel, 6
30562 Ceutí, Murcia
Made in SPAIN

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Big pressure on the planet and on the farmers.
The production must achieve these goals in the most
sustainable way possible.
● Losses of crops due to biotic stress, such as diseases
and pests, and abiotic stresses, such as droughts,
salinity or nutritional deficiencies.
● The increasing fertilizer cost per hectare will raise the
cost of production for farmers.
● Irrigation difficulties and costs
● Time management challenges
Global Agrifood challenge
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Libelium experience on connected Agriculture
▪ Very traditional sector: The agricultural sector is being
particularly slow to adopt new digital technologies.
▪ While new technologies and robotics have begun to be
used in agricultural practices, these tools are generally not
connected and therefore the potential benefits are not
appreciated.
However…
➔ A combination of immediate international challenges, new
generation of millennial farmers, new regulatory guidelines,
and tested and improved technology are creating the
“perfect storm” for further digitization of the agricultural
sector.
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6. IoT & Agrifood
How do we do it:
Hardware + Software: a complete solution
➔ Libelium ONE
➔ Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture Xtreme
➔ Plug & Sense! Smart Agriculture PRO
➔ Plug & Sense! Water Xtreme
Manage food production more efficiently and sustainably
by monitoring crop and livestock farm performance
● Leaf and flower bud
temperature and wetness
● Soil oxygen level
● Solar radiation
● Soil water potential
● Trunk, stem and fruit
diameter
● Optical dissolved oxygen
and temperature
● pH, ORP and temperature
● Conductivity, salinity and
temperature
● Turbidity
● …and many more!

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DEVICE
MANAGER
IoT BROKER
VISUALIZATION & DATA SERVICES
AI Engine
Data
bases
Models
Digital
twins
Business
Intelligence
The Libelium solution
Alarms
Notifications
Actuators

8. Shorten the time between
picking and selling
strawberries
(*and increasing quality)
An AIoT practical example

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● A very delicate fruit.
● Increased costs and labor.
● Short season.
● Very susceptible to air temperature and humidity.
Smart Strawberry crop challenges

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The Libelium solution

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The Libelium solution
The farmer can instantly check the strawberries
status on the mobile phone and receive alerts
when sensitive threshold are reached.
Leaf wetness
Soil Moisture
Weather (air temperature, pressure
and humidity, and precipitation)

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The Libelium solution

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Time, money and quality savings
30%
reducing water
daily supply
40t/Ha
constant
production
3,5-4,5 €/kg
constant
price
Results

14. Smart Vineyards: Switzerland
with Predicting Diseases of
Vine
An AIoT practical example

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The Libelium solution
“Constant humidity
monitoring of vineyards is
critical to ensure disease
doesn’t appear.
If you can see it on the leaves,
it is already too late”
Matic Šerc
eVineyard specialist

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The Libelium solution

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Vineyard disease control for three threats:
▪ The North American leafhopper insect (Flavescence dorée (FD))*
▪ Plasmopara viticola (Downy Mildew)
▪ Oidium (Powdery Mildew)
*Switzerland, if an FD cluster occurs (i.e. more than five vines per 100m2 are affected),
it is mandatory to notify the Cantonal Plant Protection Service.
Results
-20%
reducing
pest
spraying

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Global spending on smart, connected agricultural technologies and systems,
including AI and machine learning.
2025
$15,3 billion
Trends of Smart Agriculture

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“We're at the beginning of a golden age of AI. Recent
advancements have already led to invention that previously
lived in the realm of science fiction —and we've only scratched
the surface of what's possible”
Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon
The opportunity of AI in Agriculture

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Thanks!