WATERBEE DA

WaterBee Smart Irrigation Systems Demonstration Action

Coordinatore	THE NATIONAL MICROELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS CENTRE LTD    more  Organization address address: "SUPARULE HOUSE, LONSDALE ROAD NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICY PARK" city: LIMERICK contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: John Cognome: O'flaherty Email: send email Telefono: +353 61 334699 Fax: +353 61 338500
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Ireland [IE]
Sito del progetto	http://www.waterbee.eu/
Totale costo	2˙075˙210 €
EC contributo	1˙138˙000 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2011
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-07-01   -   2013-06-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE NATIONAL MICROELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS CENTRE LTD  Organization address address: "SUPARULE HOUSE, LONSDALE ROAD NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICY PARK" city: LIMERICK contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: John Cognome: O'flaherty Email: send email Telefono: +353 61 334699 Fax: +353 61 338500	IE (LIMERICK)	coordinator	226˙127.00
2	OSV SRL  Organization address address: Via Roma Nord 135 city: VILLA POMA postcode: 46020 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Cristina Cognome: Bombarda Email: send email Telefono: +39 0386 566700 Fax: +39 0386 864249	IT (VILLA POMA)	participant	146˙000.00
3	MC BURNEY SCIENTIFIC LTD  Organization address address: VICTORIA COTTAGE CANON FRAME city: LEDBURY postcode: HR8 2TG contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Terence Cognome: Mcburney Email: send email Telefono: +44 16 84585286	UK (LEDBURY)	participant	134˙800.00
4	CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY  Organization address address: College Road city: CRANFIELD - BEDFORDSHIRE postcode: MK43 0AL contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Martin Cognome: Ellis Email: send email Telefono: +44 1 234758352	UK (CRANFIELD - BEDFORDSHIRE)	participant	113˙617.00
5	INNOVACIO I RECERCA INDUSTRIAL I SOSTENIBLE SL  Organization address address: AVENIDA DEL CANAL OLIMPIC 15 PARC MEDITERRANI DE LA TECNOLOGIA EDIFICIO C4 BLOQUE ANEXO PLANTA BAJA city: Castelldefels postcode: 8860 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Colm Cognome: Digby Email: send email Telefono: +34 935542511	ES (Castelldefels)	participant	108˙800.00
6	LAQUA TREATMENT AB  Organization address address: SIRIUSVAGEN 16 city: YNGSJO postcode: 29692 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Dahn Cognome: Rosenquist Email: send email Telefono: +46 44350803	SE (YNGSJO)	participant	98˙256.00
7	INTERCROP IBERICA SL  Organization address address: Ctra La palma Cartagena km 3 city: Cartagena postcode: 30596 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Jafar Cognome: Golnabi Email: send email Telefono: +34 968165571 Fax: +34 968554700	ES (Cartagena)	participant	85˙600.00
8	SEEDRI PUUKOOL OU  Organization address address: POLLI city: KARSKI NUIA postcode: 69104 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Grete Cognome: Laansoo Email: send email Telefono: +372 51 43 435	EE (KARSKI NUIA)	participant	85˙600.00
9	CHADWICK MUSHROOM FARM LTD  Organization address address: TAS SALIB - LIMITI TAR RABAT city: RABAT postcode: RBT 4206 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Saviour Cognome: Gauci Email: send email Telefono: +356 21454254	MT (RABAT)	participant	82˙800.00
10	UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS  Organization address address: KALLIPOLEOS STREET 75 city: NICOSIA postcode: 1678 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Christos Cognome: Panayiotou Email: send email Telefono: +357 22893450 Fax: +357 22 893455	CY (NICOSIA)	participant	56˙400.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The WaterBee Smart Irrigation Demonstration Action is the follow-on phase from the very successful FP7-SME-007-1 WaterBee “Research for SMEs” project (222440) that ended in September 2010, & very convincingly researched, developed & proved the concept of the WaterBee Prototype to provide an unique scientific soil-moisture model that automatically adapts to each installation & crop with a distributed Web-based Wireless Sensor Networked (WSN) Smart Irrigation system to optimise Water Use Efficiency (WUE) in irrigation. There is a pressing need & excellent commercial opportunity for such a system in Agriculture, which is the largest industry in the world & (according to the WWF), wastes 60% of the 2,500 trillion litres of water it uses each year - which is 70% of the world's accessible water – a huge threat to the environment. A major culprit is inefficient water irrigation systems. In Europe irrigated agriculture is the biggest water consumer (over 60%) in the Mediterranean, where drought is an increasing problem. To bridge the gap from the very successful Research project, & enable its SMEs to be able to address this significant market opportunity, WaterBee will be scaled up to a full reliable operational field prototype service, that will be demonstrated & validated over a 15 month period with complete growing cycles of various crops in 6 contrasting sites across Europe, in Estonia, Italy, Malta, Sweden, Spain & UK, to quantify profitable operation of the WaterBee service for Growers, with water savings of 40% while enhancing crop quality in each site. The project will quantify the market & identify potential users of a commercial WaterBee Service. Based on these & ongoing feedback from the demonstration sites the project will disseminate the WaterBee service to potential customers & business partners through various media & 2 specific events, & develop/validate a Business Plan for the SMEs to commercially develop & exploit the service after this Demo Action ends.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Researchers have successfully demonstrated that a new, smart irrigation and water management system is commercially viable. The system allows farmers to save water by irrigating only when and where it is needed.