OPTIFERT

Development of an automatic irrigation and fertilization system

Coordinatore	VEREIN ZUR FOERDERUNG DES TECHNOLOGIETRANSFERS AN DER HOCHSCHULE BREMERHAVEN E.V.    more  Organization address address: An der Karlstadt 10 city: BREMERHAVEN postcode: 27568 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Mirko Cognome: Hänel Email: send email Telefono: 494719000000 Fax: 494719000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Sito del progetto	http://www.optifert.eu/
Totale costo	1˙886˙933 €
EC contributo	1˙428˙400 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2011
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-12-01   -   2013-11-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	VEREIN ZUR FOERDERUNG DES TECHNOLOGIETRANSFERS AN DER HOCHSCHULE BREMERHAVEN E.V.  Organization address address: An der Karlstadt 10 city: BREMERHAVEN postcode: 27568 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Mirko Cognome: Hänel Email: send email Telefono: 494719000000 Fax: 494719000000	DE (BREMERHAVEN)	coordinator	17˙600.00
2	HYDRO-AIR INTERNATIONAL IRRIGATION SYSTEMS GMBH  Organization address address: FLUGPLATZWEG 1 city: NIEDERGOHRSDORF postcode: 14913 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Ulrich Cognome: Scholz Email: send email Telefono: 493374000000	DE (NIEDERGOHRSDORF)	participant	312˙812.50
3	AGRARGESELLSCHAFT NIEDERER FLAEMING MBH  Organization address address: PETKUSER STR 3A city: WAHLSDORF postcode: 14913 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Hartmut Cognome: Ilgner Email: send email Telefono: 493375000000	DE (WAHLSDORF)	participant	300˙458.25
4	INTEGRATED MICROSYSTEMS AUSTRIA GMBH  Organization address address: VIKTOR KAPLAN STRASSE 2 city: WIENER NEUSTADT postcode: 2700 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Ismail Kaan Cognome: Ozer Email: send email Telefono: 4326220000000	AT (WIENER NEUSTADT)	participant	296˙647.90
5	WHITE PETER JOHN  Organization address address: NUTTERY LANE CLOVERLEA city: LEISTON postcode: IP16 4QW contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Peter Cognome: White Email: send email Telefono: 447785000000	UK (LEISTON)	participant	287˙891.10
6	PESSL INSTRUMENTS GMBH  Organization address address: WERKSWEG 107 city: WEIZ postcode: 8160 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Martin Cognome: Gaggl Email: send email Telefono: 4331725521	AT (WEIZ)	participant	212˙990.25
7	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN  Organization address address: Karlsplatz 13 city: WIEN postcode: 1040 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Michael Cognome: Vellekoop Email: send email Telefono: +43 1 58801 366 64 Fax: +43 1 58801 366 99	AT (WIEN)	participant	0.00
8	UNIVERSITAET BREMEN  Organization address address: Bibliothekstrasse 1 city: BREMEN postcode: 28359 contact info Nome: Silke Cognome: Reinold Email: send email Telefono: 4942120000000 Fax: 494212000000000	DE (BREMEN)	participant	0.00
9	UNIWERSYTET WARMINSKO- MAZURSKI W OLSZTYNIE  Organization address address: Oczapowski 2 city: Olsztyn postcode: 10-719 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Katarzyna Cognome: Gli?ska-Lewczuk Email: send email Telefono: +48 89 523 4943	PL (Olsztyn)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Due to climate related changes, longer dry periods for European farmers and without irrigation the risk of a volatile harvests will rise, that is the reason for a tendency across Europe to irrigate fields. The need for innovative irrigated systems is to minimize water consumption and costs. Also in times of limited water the project will be lucrative. There are more and more increasing cost pressures like costs of water, energy and fertilizer, environmental legislation and requirements, cuts of subsidies, high personal costs etc. The project will help to save a huge amount of money by reducing the mentioned investments. The tendency to automatic systems in the agriculture is rising and in future farmers will do most of their regulating by a computer. The system will support the farmers to realize their work by modern technology. Furthermore the project minimizes the pollution of groundwater by reducing fertilizer to a limit and concerns of eutrophication will be decreased. The aim of the project is to develop a fully automatic irrigation and fertilisation system (with needs based fertilizer spreading) in order to help farmers to monitor and control their water and fertilizer consumption. That basically means we want to combine the irrigation and fertilization in one step. Furthermore, the system will diagnose the need of the plants with the help of sensors and the interpretation of terrestrial meteorological data. The system consists of a combined sensor-detector-dosage system, which includes a monitoring, control and distribution unit which enables the dosing and distribution of the water and the fertilizer.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Over the last decade the use of irrigation systems has grown significantly; however, inefficient systems cause water and fertiliser to be wasted. An EU-funded initiative addressed this problem with the aim of enabling farmers to carefully monitor and control their use of these resources.