cience and Technology Areas Selection: Horticulture, viticulture
Socio-Economic Objectives Selection: Agriculture
Budget Classification: New Technologies, ICT and Robotics in Agricultural and Rural Production (Agriculture – Food Industry)
Aim:
The aim of the OenoWatch project is to study, develop, implement and pilot a holistic phytosanitary and plant protection system based on the use of an unmanned aerial vehicles and a series of cutting-edge technologies, as well as the establishment of a Competence Center for Precision Viticulture. During the course of the project, a prototype UAS will be constructed with remote sensing indicators from multi-spectral sensors. Thanks to timely diagnosis and targeted application of plant protection, the environmental damage will be reduced while achieving better health conditions for wine-growing professionals (due to remote application of pesticides).
General Objectives:
- To create an accessible and affordable integrated solution for viticulture in Cyprus to be used both by vineyard owners themselves and agricultural policy makers.
- To connect policy makers, academia and technology actors with the viticulture community in a sustainable way with the aim to make robotics and other innovative technologies accessible for the highest amount of wine-growers.
- To create more business potential in the area of precision agriculture.
- Strengthening competitiveness of national wine producers.
Scientific Objectives:
- To develop a decision-making system based on heterogeneous location specific data and mission management technologies.
- To design and develop a semantic middleware solution and a shared information model.
- To develop customized sensing and actuating systems mounted on UAVs and the relevant infrastructure (charging stations, spraying machines, etc.).
- To demonstrate efficient and feasible solutions in real application scenarios.
The Working Packages:
- WP1 Project Management
- WP2 Dissemination activities
- WP3 Competence Centre for Precision Viticulture
- WP4 Requirements Analysis & Architecture Design
- WP5 OenoWatch middleware development
- WP6 Hardware development and configuration
- WP7 OenoWatch Decision Support System and portal
- WP8 Piloting, validation and evaluation
The project partnership consists of six (6) organizations from Cyprus: E.U.C. RESEARCH CENTRE LTD, DRONINT LTD, G.G. EUROSUCCESS CONSULTING LTD, CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, EKFRASEIS WINERY LTD, DEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF LEMESOS LTD
For more information, please visit the project website: www.oenowatch.eu