Future Internet and the FIspace Platform for Agri-Food business at WCCA2014Sjaak Wolfert
Presentation that was held at the World Congress on Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources, 29 July 2014 San Jose, Costa Rica.
I presented work from all 3 phases of the FI-PPP program and how we started this from projects in The Netherlands.
Presented FIspace in a session at the 2nd European Conference on Future Internet (ECFI) where the FIware accelerators in agri-food were also presenting how they were planning to build upon FIWARE and FIspace.
Presented FIspace at a matchmaking event in The Netherlands for the FIWARE Accelerator FInish. Also the other accelerators SmarAgriFood, Fractals and SpeedUP!Europe were mentioned.
How IoT is changing the agribusiness landscapeSjaak Wolfert
Smart Farming involves many sensing and monitoring devices, intelligent software for analysis & planning and mechatronics/robots closing the cyber-physical farm management cycle. Big Data on prices, markets, consumer behavior, etc. increasingly affect the whole agribusiness providing predictive insights in farming operations, drive real-time operational decisions and redesign business processes for game-changing business models. Major shifts in roles and power relations among different players in food supply chain networks can be expected. This presentation will briefly describe the IoT developments in agri-food business and present the changing business landscape with special attention to the role of software ecosystems in this development.
Future Internet and the FIspace Platform for Agri-Food business at WCCA2014Sjaak Wolfert
Presentation that was held at the World Congress on Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources, 29 July 2014 San Jose, Costa Rica.
I presented work from all 3 phases of the FI-PPP program and how we started this from projects in The Netherlands.
Presented FIspace in a session at the 2nd European Conference on Future Internet (ECFI) where the FIware accelerators in agri-food were also presenting how they were planning to build upon FIWARE and FIspace.
Presented FIspace at a matchmaking event in The Netherlands for the FIWARE Accelerator FInish. Also the other accelerators SmarAgriFood, Fractals and SpeedUP!Europe were mentioned.
How IoT is changing the agribusiness landscapeSjaak Wolfert
Smart Farming involves many sensing and monitoring devices, intelligent software for analysis & planning and mechatronics/robots closing the cyber-physical farm management cycle. Big Data on prices, markets, consumer behavior, etc. increasingly affect the whole agribusiness providing predictive insights in farming operations, drive real-time operational decisions and redesign business processes for game-changing business models. Major shifts in roles and power relations among different players in food supply chain networks can be expected. This presentation will briefly describe the IoT developments in agri-food business and present the changing business landscape with special attention to the role of software ecosystems in this development.
KG2 has been collecting, compiling and managing data for agricultural marketing professionals for over 20
years.It serves the markets and works with the leading organisations involved in crop production in Australia.
Platforms for the Internet of Food & FarmCor Verdouw
Role and vision IoF2020 on platforms. Working Group 2 of the Digitising European Industry meeting on digital industrial platforms in Brussels, Smart Agriculture session, December 8th 2016
Take a look to see how the Internet of Things is critical to future city-planning processes. In fact, day by day, cities are facing a variety of challenges such as: job creation, economic growth, environmental sustainability and social resilience.
key note on Big Data in Horticulture, for Vineland Research and Innovation, November, Ontario Canada. (overlaps considerably with the earlier presentation for USDA NIFA in Chicago)
Palestra IoT - Internet of Things - Internet das CoisasLuiz Oliveira
Internet of Things, Internet das Coisas, Real world internet, RWI, SENSEI, Smartsantander, zigbee, 802.15.4, 6lopan, internet do futuro, future internet, domotic, domotica, automation, automação.
New technologies such as the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing are expected to leverage the current
trend of Smart Farming, introducing more sensors, robots and artificial intelligence, encompassed by the
phenomenon of Big Data.
This presentation will give a quick insight into the state-of-the-art of Big Data applications in Smart Farming
and identify the related challenges that have to be addressed. It shows that the scope of Big Data
applications in Smart Farming goes beyond the farm; it is influencing the entire food supply chain. Big data
are being used to provide predictive insights in farming operations, drive real-time operational decisions, and
redesign business processes for game-changing business models.
It is expected that Big Data will cause major shifts in roles and power relations among different players in
current food supply chain networks. The landscape of stakeholders exhibits an interesting game between
powerful tech companies, venture capitalists and often small startups and new entrants. At the same time
there are several public institutions that publish open data, under the condition that the privacy of persons
must be guaranteed. The future of Smart Farming may unravel in a continuum of two extreme scenarios: 1)
closed, proprietary systems or 2) open, collaborative systems.
The development of data and application infrastructures (platforms and standards) and their institutional
embedment will play a crucial role in the battle between these scenarios. A major challenge is therefore to
cope with governance issues and define suitable business models for data sharing in different supply chain
scenarios.
Solair speech @Arduino Day 2015, 28th March 2015: who wants to discover how Solair uses Arduino to quickly prototype integrated sensors with its Cloud platform to develop IoT Applications? Watch this!
Energy Management Services for the Connected HomeEricsson
With the advent of distributed generation, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the connected home, the energy management service market is ready to take off.
Keynote IoT in Agriculture opening academic year CIHEAM ZaragozaSjaak Wolfert
Keynote presentation for the opening of the academic year at CIHEAM institute for Mediterranean agricultural research in Zaragoza. It is about how IoT and Big Data are transforming Agriculture in Europe and what the main challenges are: governance, business models and open infrastructures. This is illustrated from several use cases in the Internet of Food and Farm 2020 (IoF2020) project.
Urban sustainability and food security in africa and china. ottawa conference...Chijioke J. Evoh, Ph.D.
This paper explores urban food security within the context of development cooperation between China and sub-Saharan African countries. Recently, development cooperation between China and African countries has grown in different dimensions. Within Sino-African relations framework, little efforts have been made to share development knowledge on urban food security in the context of rapid urbanization. Chinese and African cities share two commonalties: the increasing trend of urbanization and the continuous existence of subsistent agriculture, particularly in the rural areas. Chinese cities have managed to create a sustainable system of urban food security for their teeming population. This study focuses on urban food planning in key Chinese cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Food situations in these cities will be compared with what obtains in African cities such as Lagos, Accra and Lilongwe. This study argues for a complementary two-way learning process between African cities and their counterparts in China on urban food policy and citizens-driven urban food planning. Chinese and African cities can share some policy lessons on food policy and governance.
What policy lessons can African cities learn from China on the implementation of effective urban food policy? Descriptive methods are used to critically analyze the urban food situation in these regions. This includes the use of primary data on food security situation in urban areas. Besides, secondary data and a desk review of existing published and grey literature are used. National and regional dynamics of food production, distribution and consumption would be triangulated for a comprehensive assessment.
KG2 has been collecting, compiling and managing data for agricultural marketing professionals for over 20
years.It serves the markets and works with the leading organisations involved in crop production in Australia.
Platforms for the Internet of Food & FarmCor Verdouw
Role and vision IoF2020 on platforms. Working Group 2 of the Digitising European Industry meeting on digital industrial platforms in Brussels, Smart Agriculture session, December 8th 2016
Take a look to see how the Internet of Things is critical to future city-planning processes. In fact, day by day, cities are facing a variety of challenges such as: job creation, economic growth, environmental sustainability and social resilience.
key note on Big Data in Horticulture, for Vineland Research and Innovation, November, Ontario Canada. (overlaps considerably with the earlier presentation for USDA NIFA in Chicago)
Palestra IoT - Internet of Things - Internet das CoisasLuiz Oliveira
Internet of Things, Internet das Coisas, Real world internet, RWI, SENSEI, Smartsantander, zigbee, 802.15.4, 6lopan, internet do futuro, future internet, domotic, domotica, automation, automação.
New technologies such as the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing are expected to leverage the current
trend of Smart Farming, introducing more sensors, robots and artificial intelligence, encompassed by the
phenomenon of Big Data.
This presentation will give a quick insight into the state-of-the-art of Big Data applications in Smart Farming
and identify the related challenges that have to be addressed. It shows that the scope of Big Data
applications in Smart Farming goes beyond the farm; it is influencing the entire food supply chain. Big data
are being used to provide predictive insights in farming operations, drive real-time operational decisions, and
redesign business processes for game-changing business models.
It is expected that Big Data will cause major shifts in roles and power relations among different players in
current food supply chain networks. The landscape of stakeholders exhibits an interesting game between
powerful tech companies, venture capitalists and often small startups and new entrants. At the same time
there are several public institutions that publish open data, under the condition that the privacy of persons
must be guaranteed. The future of Smart Farming may unravel in a continuum of two extreme scenarios: 1)
closed, proprietary systems or 2) open, collaborative systems.
The development of data and application infrastructures (platforms and standards) and their institutional
embedment will play a crucial role in the battle between these scenarios. A major challenge is therefore to
cope with governance issues and define suitable business models for data sharing in different supply chain
scenarios.
Solair speech @Arduino Day 2015, 28th March 2015: who wants to discover how Solair uses Arduino to quickly prototype integrated sensors with its Cloud platform to develop IoT Applications? Watch this!
Energy Management Services for the Connected HomeEricsson
With the advent of distributed generation, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the connected home, the energy management service market is ready to take off.
Keynote IoT in Agriculture opening academic year CIHEAM ZaragozaSjaak Wolfert
Keynote presentation for the opening of the academic year at CIHEAM institute for Mediterranean agricultural research in Zaragoza. It is about how IoT and Big Data are transforming Agriculture in Europe and what the main challenges are: governance, business models and open infrastructures. This is illustrated from several use cases in the Internet of Food and Farm 2020 (IoF2020) project.
Urban sustainability and food security in africa and china. ottawa conference...Chijioke J. Evoh, Ph.D.
This paper explores urban food security within the context of development cooperation between China and sub-Saharan African countries. Recently, development cooperation between China and African countries has grown in different dimensions. Within Sino-African relations framework, little efforts have been made to share development knowledge on urban food security in the context of rapid urbanization. Chinese and African cities share two commonalties: the increasing trend of urbanization and the continuous existence of subsistent agriculture, particularly in the rural areas. Chinese cities have managed to create a sustainable system of urban food security for their teeming population. This study focuses on urban food planning in key Chinese cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Food situations in these cities will be compared with what obtains in African cities such as Lagos, Accra and Lilongwe. This study argues for a complementary two-way learning process between African cities and their counterparts in China on urban food policy and citizens-driven urban food planning. Chinese and African cities can share some policy lessons on food policy and governance.
What policy lessons can African cities learn from China on the implementation of effective urban food policy? Descriptive methods are used to critically analyze the urban food situation in these regions. This includes the use of primary data on food security situation in urban areas. Besides, secondary data and a desk review of existing published and grey literature are used. National and regional dynamics of food production, distribution and consumption would be triangulated for a comprehensive assessment.
FIspace and SmartAgriFood at Dutch network meeting with SMEsSjaak Wolfert
I presented FIspace and SmartAgriFood and the whole context of the Future Internet PPP at a network meeting at the Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam, co-organized by the Ducht Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The meeting was attended by ICT developers, end users from Agri-Food business and researchers. In total about 50 participants
Entrepreneurs active in the agricultural sector spend more and more of their time registering and publishing all kinds of data, as the government, certification bodies, banks, clients, the retail sector and consumers all want to have more insight into how safe and sustainable their food is.
The majority of this agriculture-related data is still paper-based, spread over different systems and difficult to exchange between the people who want to access it. This is why digitising agricultural business data is an important item on the agenda. With FarmDigital, we can respond to these developments.
FarmDigital is an action research programme which is currently working towards a situation in which data only needs to be entered once and can be shared easily. It aims to achieve this goal by standardising data and developing and implementing an independent, digital platform for people to use.
Fostering Business and Software Ecosystems for large-scale Uptake of IoT in F...Sjaak Wolfert
The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to be a real game changer that will drastically improve productivity and sustainability in food and farming. However, current IoT applications in this domain are still fragmentary and mainly used by a small group of early adopters. The Internet of Food and Farm 2020 Large-Scale Pilot (IoF2020) addresses the organizational and technological challenges to overcome this situation by fostering a large-scale uptake of IoT in the European food and farming domain. The heart of the project is formed by a balanced set of multi-actor trials that reflect the diversity of the food and farming domain. Each trial is composed of well-delineated use cases developing IoT solutions for the most relevant challenges of the concerned subsector. The project conducts 5 trials with a total of 19 use cases in arable, dairy, fruits, vegetables and meat production. IoF2020 embraces a lean multi-actor approach that combines the development of Minimal Viable Products (MVPs) in short iterations with the active involvement of various stakeholders. The architectural approach supports interoperability of multiple use case systems and reuse of IoT components across them. Use cases are also supported in developing business and solving governance issues. The IoF2020 ecosystem and collaboration space is established to boost the uptake of IoT in Food and Farming and pave the way for new innovations.
Smart Farming is a development that emphasizes the use of information and communication technology in the
cyber-physical farm management cycle. New technologies such as the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing
are expected to leverage this development and introduce more robots and artificial intelligence in farming.
This is encompassed by the phenomenon of Big Data, massive volumes of data with a wide variety that can be
captured, analysed and used for decision-making. This review aims to gain insight into the state-of-the-art of
Big Data applications in Smart Farming and identify the related socio-economic challenges to be addressed. Following
a structured approach, a conceptual framework for analysiswas developed that can also be used for future
studies on this topic. The review shows that the scope of Big Data applications in Smart Farming goes beyond
primary production; it is influencing the entire food supply chain. Big data are being used to provide predictive
insights in farming operations, drive real-time operational decisions, and redesign business processes for
game-changing business models. Several authors therefore suggest that Big Data will cause major shifts in
roles and power relationsamong different players in current food supply chain networks. The landscape of stakeholders
exhibits an interesting gamebetween powerful tech companies, venture capitalists and often small startups
and new entrants. At the same time there are several public institutions that publish open data, under the
condition that the privacy of persons must be guaranteed. The future of Smart Farming may unravel in a continuum
of two extreme scenarios: 1) closed, proprietary systems in which the farmer is part of a highly integrated
food supply chain or 2) open, collaborative systems inwhich the farmer and every other stakeholder in the chain
network is flexible in choosing business partners as well for the technology as for the food production side. The
further development of data and application infrastructures (platforms and standards) and their institutional
embedment will play a crucial role in the battle between these scenarios. From a socio-economic perspective,
the authors propose to give research priority to organizational issues concerning governance issues and suitable
business models for data sharing in different supply chain scenarios.
This is my introduction into FIspace that was used for the presentation of Jaap van der Pol, a student from the Free University of Amsterdam that did his MSc thesis research on a Business Model for FIspace, the B2B collaboration platform for Agri-Food, Transport & Losgistics. I included the main concluding slides from him in this presentation.
Presentation of the FI-PPP use case projects SmartAgriFood and FIspace to a group of Agri-Food and ICT stakeholders in the Netherlands that are potentially interested in the open call in the FIspace project and phase 3 projects.
2014.11.13-14 Finish Slide Show FIWARE Bootcamp UtrechtCor Verdouw
Slide Show of the FInish project for the FIWARE Bootcamp, 13 & 14 november 2014 in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
See for more information:
- http://www.fi-ware.nl/
- http://www.finish-project.eu/
Presentation for a Chinese delegation from the Fujian province that did a study tour in The Netherlands. I presented the work LEI Wageningen UR is doing on Information Management & ICT in Agri-Food by highlighting project work.
A delegation from John Deere (Mannheim) visited WageningenUR to discuss research trends and explore opportunities to collaborate in the future. FIspace was presented as a possibility to collaborate on ICT development.
Introduction of the European project FInish and its opportunities for Internet-based innovations in fruit & vegetable supply chains.
1st EU FRESH INFO Forum & Round Table
3-4 December 2014, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Presentation for a group of employees of Centric, a large software consultancy company. It provides an illustration of how IoT is currently being developed in farming, agri-logistics and food consumption. It also addresses the technical and organizational challenges that have to be overcome to make IoT application in agri-food a success. Open platforms and software development and above all appropriate business models are key issues that have to be addressed. The new EU-project "Internet of Food and Farm 2020" will address these issues by fostering a collaborative IoT ecosystem to upscale the use of IoT in agri-food.
Presentation on ICT trends in developments and what this means for the agri-food business, focussing on the FIspace platform. The presentation was part of the mastercourse Hortibusiness in which about 20 entrepreneurs from the horticultural business are participating.
This presentation was held at the FI-PPP phase 3 workshop, 6-7 March in Brussels. Especially explaining how and on what conditions phase 3 projects can use the FIspace platform.
Snap4City has been created in response to Select4Cities PCP (http://www.select4cities.eu/) call as an open, standardized, data-driven, service-oriented, user-centric platform enabling large-scale co-creation IOT/IOE applications and services for Helsinki, Copenhagen and Antwerp.
Snap4City is 100% open source:
robust, scalable, easy to use solution, provides tools for co-creation of mixt data driven, stream and batch processing, GDPR, and city dashboards.
extending with IOT/IOE the semantic reasoner of Km4City https://www.km4city.org
Km4City has been validated in multiple devices (PC, Android, Raspberry, ..), and domains: mobility and transport, tourism, health, welfare, social and cities such as Florence, Pisa, Arezzo, and large area of millions on inhabitants as Tuscany and million of data per day.
The innovation is mainly related to semantic reasoning, IOT interoperability, microservices, automated dashboard production, .. thus
setting up smart city solutions in a snap
Serve as a City Dashboard, App User Interface, etc.
Real time and historical data, any device, sensors and actuators
Sensors, KPI, maps, data trends, real time data, charts, etc.
Referral / historical data, and Open Data:
shadow, access (API, storage, any protocol), production of OD, export
Data Driven Real Time communication & processing:
IOT Applications, IOT edge, multiple operating systems, embedded systems, MicroServices
in/out data driven from/to the field into: applications, notifications, etc.
Data Analytics: Machine Learning, statistics, reasoning, …
Serve as Living Lab: open innovation, coworking; collaborative work; sharing: data, processes, dashboard, experiences, solutions, ….
Experimented on large scale cases
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A look at the layers of the IoT - Created in a collaboration between Postscapes and Harbor Research -- Technology, Business, User Experience and Market Architecutures
A slide version can be found here:
http://www.slideshare.net/Postscapes/internet-of-things-stack-presentation-version
Full resolution can be found at: http://www.postscapes.com/internet-of-things-stack
The Internet of Things for Food - An integrated socio-economic and technologi...Sjaak Wolfert
The domain of agri-food is increasingly being digitized through the introduction of all kind of smart devices and software: the Internet of Things (IoT). I distinguish 4 application areas in which IoT and the digital transformation is expected to bring big changes and where data will play an increasingly larger role:
1. Digital data is becoming more important for decision-making for actors at any level of the agri-food supply chain: from farmers, through logistic providers to consumers.
2. The same data is essential for food integrity, providing assurance to consumers and other stakeholders about safety, authenticity and quality of food.
3. Public decision-making for societal challenges such as food security, climate change, healthy food and nutrition could also tap into these data instead of using separate censuses and statistics which are usually lagging behind.
4. Finally, this digitization is driven by fast developments in science and technology (S&T), such as Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Blockchain, etc. At the same time, advancements in data science also heavily rely on the data that is being generated by the application of data-driven research; simply put: no big data analytics without big data.
Now it could be expected that this is purely a technological development. However, I will show how the organisational development is equally important, coining an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach. The heart of this approach is formed by use cases in which digital solutions are designed, tested & implemented and evaluated in a real-life environment, following a cyclic, iterative development path. It is supported by (i) data science and information management, (ii) business modelling, governance & ethics and (iii) ecosystem development. The approach will be demonstrated by an existing example from the wine sector.
The outline of this presentation consists of three parts. First, I will describe the trends and developments concerning the digital transformation of the agri-food sector. This will conclude with the definition of the innovation challenge for digital innovation in this sector. Then I will introduce an integrated innovation approach to address this challenge. Finally, I will use a real-life example from pig production to illustrate how this approach works in practice. Finally, I will end up with some conclusions.
I showed how the digital transformation of the agri-food sector is taking place and that there is a clear potential for sustainable food systems. Through the digital transformation a lot of data is produced which can be used for multiple purposes. You have learned that digital innovation is not only about technology, but that technical and organizational issues should be addressed, at the same time. Therefore, digital innovation should take place in a real-life context by use case projects, following a multi-disciplinary, collaborative, agile approach.
If you are interested in more details about the Pig Farm Management, contact Jarissa Maselyne from ILVO. I encourage you to join the SmartAgriHubs community by registering in the Innovation Portal and you can also come to the final event in Lisbon within a few weeks. Hundreds of stakeholders and more than 20 partner projects are coming together to share experiences on Digital Innovation in the Agri-Food sector. You are also welcome to subscribe to our on-line course that is enabled by Wageningen Academy. And finally, if you want to know more about how we deal with data in Wageningen, contact the Wageningen Data Competence Center.
This is a presentation I held in the workshop in which we discussed and offered how the SmartAgriHubs network can support proposals for the current Horizon Europe call 'HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-02-04-two-stage: Smart solutions for the use of digital technologies for small- and medium-sized, farms and farm structures'.
IoT and 5G in Agriculture: opportunities and challengesSjaak Wolfert
This is a keynote presentation at a workshop that was organized by Marconi Labs Coltano on 'Wireless technologies in agriculture. The presentation describes the general trend of digitalization in agriculture and food production. This is further illustrated by the IoF202 use case 'Big Wine Optimization' that demonstrates use of the Internet of Things (IoT) in agri-food. From this use case an overall, integrated approach to work on digital innovation is deducted which emphasizes both technological as well as organizational aspects. It also briefly introduces the potential use of 5G illustrated by a use case of the weed detection robot using a pre-5G network in The Netherlands. Recommendations to leapfrog development are provided for three distinctive scenarios ranging from 'no smart farming yet applied' to '5G implementation available'. The presentation ends with conclusions, that are also provided in Italian.
AI for intelligent services in Food SystemsSjaak Wolfert
This presentation was presented at the IEEE 5G Worldforum in a session 'Dialogues between 5G/B5G and Vertical Domains: AI for Intelligent Services. Several use cases in Food Systems that use 5G are presented of which the 'weed detection robot' in more detail. Enabling factors and recommendations for the use of 5G to create intelligent services using AI are discussed.
Navigating the twilight zone - pathways towards digital transformation of foo...Sjaak Wolfert
The Twilight Zone as a metaphor refers to the situation where innovations have proven to be promising but have to be up-scaled to a higher level of adoption. Therefore we have to bridge the difference between technology readiness and user readiness. “We don’t need more apps. We need a system”. This short quote of a farmer reflects the high degree of fragmentation and discontinuity in innovation processes we observe.
More focus on the user readiness of technologies and support by multi-actor ecosystems is required, in which innovations are embedded in a system approach and tested in living labs. These are important pathways towards a sustainable digital innovation ecosystem and to navigate through the Twilight Zone.
During the 2021 Mansholt Lecture, l presented the options and challenges for stakeholders in the transition towards a sustainable digital innovation ecosystem. Europe needs to consider creating an integral European policy on this issue.
This presentation was held in a panel discussion on 'Digital transformation in agri-food sector through policymaking and innovation' at the Digital Agriculture Forum Webinar, jointly organized by FAO and Zhejiang University.
It describes how the EU project SmartAgriHubs is working on connecting the dots to mitigate the current fragemented development of smart, digital solutions for agriculture. The key for this approach is creating a network of Digital Innovation Hubs closely connected to a network of Competence Centres. The DIHs are creating new Innovation Experiments at a local, regional level, supported by the network. The Innovation Portal can facilitate matchmaking to do so. The approach can be further extended to other continents and regions such as Africa.
Digital Innovation Hubs – Digital Transformation of Agriculture at a Regional...Sjaak Wolfert
• Build local digital innovation hubs offering innovation services and access
to finance
• Organize regional challenges for initiating new Innovation Experiments
• Conduct multi-actor Innovation Experiments for a digital transformation
• Creating a pan-European network of Digital Innovation Hubs
and Competence Centres
Digital innovation for sustainable food systemsSjaak Wolfert
This presentation will show that digital solutions help addressing multiple sustainability issues, particularly illuminating how producers and consumers can use digitalisation to support a transition towards healthier diets.
Large ICT-projects in Agri-Food in EuropeSjaak Wolfert
This is a presentation about the background, development and state-of-the-art of large ICT-projects in Agri-Food that are going on in Europe: Internet of Food and Farm 2020 (IoF2020) and SmartAgriHubs.
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This is the presentation on understanding the SmartAgriHubs project that I gave at the kick-off event in Prague, Czech Republic on the 5th of March 2019. It starts with the background of the Digital Transformation that is going on in the Agri-Food sector. Then the objective is decribed followed by the 5 basic concepts that are the basis of this project: Digital Innovation Hubs, Innovation Expriments, Competence Centers, Innovation Portal and the Innovation Services Maturity Model. Next, the project approach and work package structure are explained. The presentation is concluded by the most important KPIs and numbers of the project.
This is a keynote presentation presented at a conference on INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND DATA APPLICATIONS IN THE AGRIFOOD SECTOR, 26 February 2019 at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi South Campus, Rectorate Conference Hall, Turkey. It describes multi-disciplinary, collaborative, agile approach for digital transformation of the agri-food sector based on the IoF2020 and SmartAgriHubs project. It describes several examples of IoT and Big Data applications from those projects,
The video and voice-over of this presentation can be found at https://youtu.be/wYJVqh6jvSE
APPLICATION OF BIG DATA IN ENHANCING EFFECTIVE DECISION MAKING IN AGRICULTURA...Sjaak Wolfert
The agriculture production system increasingly becomes data-driven and data-enabled based on the cyber-physical management cycle. This paper describes several IoT-applications of the EU-funded IoF2020 project in which data and data-sharing plays a crucial role. It provides an integrative framework aiming at cross-fertilisation, co-creation and co-ownership of results. Technical integration, business support and ecosystem development are key mechanisms to realize this.
The SmartAgriHubs project enables a broad digital transformation of the European farming and food sector. With a €20 million budget co-funded by the European Union, the project aims to build an extensive pan-European network of Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs). The project starts today on November 1st, 2018. This presentation describes the project's objective and method that is used to reach these objectives.
New technologies such as the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing are expected to leverage the current
trend of Smart Farming, introducing more sensors, robots and artificial intelligence, encompassed by the
phenomenon of Big Data.
This presentation will give a quick insight into the state-of-the-art of Big Data applications in Smart Farming
and identify the related challenges that have to be addressed. It shows that the scope of Big Data
applications in Smart Farming goes beyond the farm; it is influencing the entire food supply chain. Big data
are being used to provide predictive insights in farming operations, drive real-time operational decisions, and
redesign business processes for game-changing business models.
It is expected that Big Data will cause major shifts in roles and power relations among different players in
current food supply chain networks. The landscape of stakeholders exhibits an interesting game between
powerful tech companies, venture capitalists and often small startups and new entrants. At the same time
there are several public institutions that publish open data, under the condition that the privacy of persons
must be guaranteed. The future of Smart Farming may unravel in a continuum of two extreme scenarios: 1)
closed, proprietary systems or 2) open, collaborative systems.
The development of data and application infrastructures (platforms and standards) and their institutional
embedment will play a crucial role in the battle between these scenarios. A major challenge is therefore to
cope with governance issues and define suitable business models for data sharing in different supply chain
scenarios.
Guidelines for governance of data sharing in agri foodSjaak Wolfert
Big Data is becoming a new asset in the agri-food sector including enterprise data from operational systems, sensor data, farm equipment data, etc. Recently, Big Data applications are being implemented to improve farm and chain performance in agri-food networks. Still, many companies are refraining from sharing data because of fear of governance issues such as data insecurity, or lack of privacy or liability, among others. To overcome such barriers for developments with Big Data, this paper aims at: 1) analysing governance issues in agri-food networks, and 2) introducing a set of guidelines for data-sharing. Based on a literature review, a framework for analysing agri-food networks was developed, with internal governance factors (efficiency, effectiveness, inclusiveness, legitimacy & accountability, credibility and transparency) and external governance factors (political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors). The framework contributes to development of a set of draft guidelines. Accordingly, for each factor, the guidelines address issues, best practices and lessons learned from other projects and initiatives. The approach developed in this paper creates a baseline for possible future developments of Big data in terms of 1) upscaling of the guidelines at a global level, 2) refining and fine-tuning of the guidelines for context specific agri-food networks, and 3) contributing to solving governance challenges in data sharing. In the future, the relevance of Big Data in the agri-food domain is expected to increase, and so are the contributions of this approach.
Bridging the skills gap IoT Tech Expo Berlin 1 Jun 2017Sjaak Wolfert
Bridging the skills gap: How industrial/academic partnerships can benefit your IoT business.
Several of the large IoT players have recently partnered with universities and colleges worldwide to ensure that the next generation of recruits have the high level technical skills and understanding of the IoT ecosystem need to add value to their businesses. How should you take advantage of such collaboration opportunities, and how can they translate into increasing innovation and getting that competitive edge within your organisation? The EU-funded IoT Large Scale Pilot 'The Internet of Food and Farm 2020 (IoF2020)' will be used as a showcase. New opportunities for collaboration will be mentioned.
IoF2020 project overview for BDE/eRosa/GODANSjaak Wolfert
Presentation of the IoF2020 project at the 2nd Joint workshop of Big Data Europe, eRosa & GODAN on European Policy Perspectives on Data-intensive Agriculture & Food.
IoF2020 project overview for S3 platform Big Data and TraceabilitySjaak Wolfert
Presentation at a technical meeting of the S3 AgriFood platform on Big Data and Traceability hosted by the regional government of Andalusia. Special attention was paid to those use cases that are dealing with this theme.
DATA-FAIR - value creation by data sharing in agri-food businessSjaak Wolfert
The digitization of society makes data more important. This is enhanced by the Internet of Things (IoT) in which a variety of devices, sensors and the like are connected via the Internet together and deliver real-time data.
Many companies see data as the way to generate new business, also in the agri-food sector. However, the added value is only created when multiple data sources are combined, aggregated and analyzed. The sharing of data between companies in the chain is therefore a critical success factor.
Although several initiatives to share data have been initiated, this development seems to be stagnating. Now the agribusinesses are mainly developing their own proprietary platforms, resulting in a maze of platforms which makes it technically difficult to exchange data between different systems and devices. This causes rather more administrative burdens than they reduce.
Exchange of data between platforms and applications is currently inhibited because of discussions about ownership of data, privacy, fear of concentration of power in the chain and the lack of clear business models where added value of data sharing is distributed among the various stakeholders. Now it seems that the benefit to the primary producers - the farmers - is minimal and the agri-business seems to benefit most. This creates resistance to sharing data that inhibits innovations that ultimately serve the interests of the farmer and the competitiveness of the whole agri-food sector.
DATA-FAIR breaks this deadlock and will accelerate innovation by hosting several large-scale trials with companies and Wageningen Research in which applications are developed where data between various platforms is shared and value is created.
In these trials, the farmer plays a central role as a main supplier and manager of data. He or she determines who may use which data and under what conditions. Digital permissions will play an important role enabled by a central register (e.g. AgriTrust). Also, special attention is paid to the development of attractive and transparent business models and good organizational embedding (governance) so that the results will continue to exist after the project.
DATA-FAIR doesn’t create a new platform itself, but uses existing building blocks and will help improving these if necessary. Here one can think of open application interfaces (APIs) and standards to link platforms and databases. DATA-FAIR builds on experiences with existing data hubs such as EDI-Circle and AgriPlace.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
3. Location-based
services
Internet of Tings Wireless Sensor Networks
Consultants
Forwarder
Production
Plants
Carriers
Ports
Customs
Banks
Insurances
Authorities
Consumers
Future Internet Features
Social Media
Motivation and Impact
Agri-Food, Transport and Logistics:
• EU turnover: 1,500 billion €
• Efficiency: 148-220 billion € savings
• Sustainability: 26.5% of CO2 emissions
FIspace will facilitate:
■ … seamless cross-organizational
collaboration (information
exchange, communication, coordinatio
n of activities)
■ …unprecedented
transparency, visibility and
control of processes (using
Internet-connected sensors and IoT
devices)
■ …rapid, easy, low cost
development and deployment of
customized solutions (apps and
services)
■ …agile formation of business
networks and ecosystems (social
networks and app/service markets)
Privacy & Security
Internet of Services
Cloud Computing
Linked Open Data, Big Data
4. App store
Smart Farming in the Cloud – conceptual architecture
Services
sensors
actuators
data sources
(‘Internet of Things’)
Local
FMS
Spraying Advisory
Services
Meteorological
Service
State and Policy
Information Service
FMIS
E-agriculturist Service
for spraying potatoes
FI-Ware enabled
Cloud Platform
Machine Breakdown
Service
User’s
devices
Other
sources
Cloud
FMS
5. FIspace platform High Level Architecture
Front-End
FIspace
Store
Real-time B2B
Collaboration
Core
System & Data Integration
Security, Privacy, and Trust Management
Operating Environment
DevelopmentToolkit
I2ND
IoT
IoC
IoS
S&T
GENERIC ENABLERS
DEVELOPMENT
TOOLKIT
Base Technologies
Validation
1. Crop Protection
Information Sharing
2. Greenhouse
Management &
Control
3. Fish Distribution &
(Re-)Planning
4. Fresh Fruit and
Vegetables QA
5. Flowers & Plants SC
Chain Monitoring
6. Meat Information
Provenance
7. Import & Export of
Consumer Goods
8. Tailored Information
for Consumers
Trials:
6. FIspace approach for Software Mass Customisation
FIspace App Store
My FIspace
Develop
Apps
Pre-configure
User Systems
Configure &
Use Systems
FIspace Platform
Single App
Configuration
8. FIspace Ecosystem Development
Industries
(converging)
Farming & Manufacturing Transport & Logistics
(Producers, Farmers, Manufacturers, Suppliers, ..)
Wholesale & Retail Service Sector
(Forwarder, Carriers, 3PL / 4PL, Ports, …) (Warehouses, Supermarkets, Stores, …) (Banks, Insurances, Authorities, ..´)
ICT Industry
(going to the Cloud)
Cloud Operators &
Infrastructure Providers
Software & Solution Providers
Value-Added Service Providers
I2ND
IoT
IoC
IoS
S&T
(+ follow up)
GENERIC ENABLERS
DEVELOPMENT
TOOLKIT
Base Technologies
Validation
9. 5 Accelerator Projects intend to use FIspace
• SmartAgriFood2
– Smart farming (livestock, arable & horticulture)
• FInish
– Logistics of Flowers & Food
• INCENSe
– Smart Energy
• Fractals
– Smart Farming in Balkan region
• SpeedUp_Europe
– Agrobusiness Park, Smart Energy, Smart Cities
• Total open calls based on FIspace: > 20 M€ in coming 2 years
10. Smart AgriMatics 2014
• 18-19 June 2014, Paris (France)
• Joint conference organised by FIspace, ICT-AGRI ERA-NET 2
and eFoodChain
• Practice-oriented Ecosystem conference
– With hackathon-kind-of-sessions?
• www.smartagrimatics.eu
These sectors together have a huge potential impact on the European economy and society.EU turnover: 1,500 billion €Efficiency: 148-220 billion € savingsSustainability: 26.5% of CO2 emissionsHere you see a picture of the business network we are dealing with (farmers, carriers, retail, customs, etc.)They are challenged by all kind of ICT-related developments, such as:High-quality customer applications, end2end visibility, M2M communication, etc.But there are currently still quite some bottlenecks to be solved, such as:Interoperability between current inter-enterprise information systems (still use of paper, fax, phone, etc.)Tracking and tracing possibilities are still limited (especially e.g. if you want to know what happened to your food between production and consumption)Especially for SMEs, software is relatively expensive, while the need for flexible, customized solutions has increasedThese bottlenecks are the reason for current limited and rather fixed business collaboration networks, hampering innovation in generalThrough conceptual prototypes in phase 1 we have made it plausible that FI will significantly contribute to overcoming these bottlenecks by facilitating:...seamless cross-organizational collaboration…unprecedented transparency, visibility and control of processes…rapid, easy, low cost development and deployment of customized solutions…agile formation of business networks and ecosystems
This will be achieved by the FIspace platform, which is a cloud-based solution for business collaboration.This platform is represented by the big rectangle in the middle, consisting of several components:FIspace store (similar to the Apple App Store or Google Play), which offers a range of apps and services supporting B2B collaborationBecause apps are characterized by simple, lightweight functionalities, this collaboration is supported by a B2B collaboration core that handles object states, event handling, (re-)planning processes, etc.Further embedding and integration is supported by the other layers:System & Data IntegrationSecurity, Privacy and Trust managementAnd an operating environment to make it runningThe apps are planned to be developed through the open call in Phase 2 and large scale expansion in Phase 3. Therefore we develop and offer aSoftware development toolkitFinally, the whole platform is approachable through front-ends, which are typicallycockpit-type of web browser applicationsAll these components will use, and therewith validate, several GEs from FI-Ware and - at the other side – eight trials will validate and demonstrate the FIspace platform
Red rectangles: new partners that were not in SmartAgriFood or FInest