Project number: LTE119008
Project title: AgriClima - Adding Value through Piloting of the EU-CELAC Climate Services Market in Agriculture
Programme: MČMT (INTER – EUREKA)
Project coordinator: Lesprojekt - služby s.r.o.
CZU Project leader: Doc. Ing. Martin Hanel, Ph.D.
Contact person: Mgr. Emílie Trakalová/Mgr. Kateřina Chmelíková
Project schedule: 2019-2022
Total project budget: 6 000 000 Kč
Abstract:
The main objective of the project is to develop a new generation alert and monitoring system based on the introduction of interoperable interfaces, which will optimize the agricultural management of water and nutrients in the soil. Using a pilot application and experience from the Czech Republic, the project will extend the existing climate service to new users in Argentina. The project will be implemented over a period of 36 months (from July 2019 to May 2022) in 4 (annual) phases / stages and will consist of the following seven (7) work packages (WP):
WP1: Project management, communication with end - users, dissemination of project results
WP2: Problem analysis (analysis of end-users and options for use of alert and monitoring systems at different pilot sites).
WP3: Description of AgriClima system, analysis of system possibilities
WP4: Concept of AgriClima and related databases
WP5: Hardware on sites
WP6: Creation of pilot plants and its launch in Argentina (testing of system possibilities, evaluation of pilot plant tests, proposal of final implementation of the system) based on Czech experience (in-situ laboratory in the Czech Republic).
WP7: Training of AgriClima end-users and definition of optimal conditions for transfer of the system to other pilot sites within the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
AgriClima system, which will be implemented with the aim of optimizing agricultural water management (vineyards), will be based on IoT (Internet of Things) applied to sensor networks. This system will be designed, taking into account the local and regional conditions of the pilot areas and the needs of end users. In terms of data flow, the system will operate in such a way that the individual network measurement points (nodes) transmit the identification of each individual sensor plus the value of the measured quantity to the respective IoT network, through which it will be delivered to the data server
The project builds on and puts into practice the scientific knowledge gained so far on the impact of climate change on the hydrological characteristics of agricultural areas and links this knowledge with developments in end-user systems and the use of sensors in practice. At the same time, it verifies the knowledge gained from the application of organic matter - biochar, to the soil in order to mitigate the impacts of changes in conditions and to stabilize or increase the yield of agricultural areas.