WIDHOC - AMS

Project information
Widhoc works in the Information and Communications Technologies sector. It was founded in 2012 and its main activity consists in the development of wireless systems to monitor crops activity. Widhoc provides services to several companies of the sector, including companies with woody and vegetable crops, greenhouses and irrigation communities. Since Widhoc was created it has focused on its business in the field of the Internet of Things (IoT), creating innovative solutions in the world of agriculture. Specifically, we have designed, implemented and validated several hardware and software architectures for agronomic and oceanographic environments since 2007. Currently, Widhoc team provides a specific technical advice service to farmers and has 15 customers, who have an average of 3 autonomous nodes installed. Due to the variety of case studies, the Widhoc device allows the connection and usage of a wide variety of sensors: water content, temperature, electrical conductivity and matric potential in the soil, temperature and ambient humidity, as well as sensors to monitor the quality and the amount of water in an irrigation reservoir. These nodes form a distributed network, as each node communicates directly and wirelessly via GPRS with the server physically installed at Widhoc central node. Nowadays, Widhoc members are studying the FI-WARE Ecosystem. The final objective of the project AMS (Agricultural Management System) is focused on migrating the actual adhoc implementation in the agronomical sector to the FI-WARE platform by using the advantages that the FI-WARE Data/Context Management components offer. Specifically, the following Generic Enablers (GEs) are being studied: “Publish/Subscribe Context Broker – Orion Context Broker”, “BigData Analysis – Cosmos” and “Application Mashup - Wirecloud”.
Project partners: 
WIDHOC SMART SOLUTIONS S.L.
Project dates: 
March 2014 to September 2016
Contact
Contact person: 
Cristina Albaladejo
Contact email: 
Contact organisation: 
WIDHOC SMART SOLUTIONS S.L.
Funding
Funding agency: 
SmartAgriFood FIWARE accelerator
Grant: 
k€100
Total budget: 
k€133