Elmitel Sensing

Project information
Elmitel Sensing is an ecosystem of software products that will allow farmers to deploy and use agricultural wireless sensor networks and decision support systems for their crops without IT expert support for solution set-up. Elmitel Sensing will allow usage of data from its wireless sensor networks inside applications, developed on FIspace. A complete sensor network based decision support solution in the area of vineyard management, addressing vineyard managers and vineyard advisories, will be developed inside the Elmitel Sensing at the beginning, by using the FIspace platform. The main commercial drawback of wireless sensor networks today is that applications that rely on them, need to be set up by IT experts, because of the set up complexity. This implies higher cost (and in some regions also unavailability) of the solutions, based on the wireless sensor network technology, as well as lower flexibility of the solution in terms of network topology changes and network expansion. Elmitel Sensing addresses this drawback and turns wireless sensor network set-up into a process that can be accomplished by non-IT personnel (like farmers), because this recently became possible and feasible with the availability of modular hardware and IoT cellular plans. The consequence is a wireless sensor network that costs less and is more flexible and easier to upgrade, while all of the data processing for particular crop is done in the cloud. Supported sensor network hardware is already available in the EU and globally.
Project partners: 
Elmitel Engineering
Project dates: 
March 2014 to September 2016
Contact
Contact person: 
Matic Šerc
Contact email: 
Contact organisation: 
Elmitel Engineering
Funding
Funding agency: 
SmartAgriFood FIWARE accelerator
Grant: 
k€100
Total budget: 
k€133