EU-PLF
Bright Farm by Precision Livestock Farming
| Coordinatore | KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Organization address
address: Oude Markt 13 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Belgium [BE] |
| Totale costo | 7˙980˙296 € |
| EC contributo | 5˙895˙357 € |
| Programma | FP7-KBBE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology |
| Code Call | FP7-KBBE-2012-6-singlestage |
| Funding Scheme | CP-TP |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-11-01 - 2016-10-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Organization address
address: Oude Markt 13 contact info |
BE (LEUVEN) | coordinator | 1˙200˙201.00 |
| 2 |
SOUNDTALKS NV
Organization address
address: KAPELDREEF 60 contact info |
BE (LEUVEN HEVERLEE) | participant | 499˙460.00 |
| 3 |
Fancom B.V.
Organization address
address: Industrieterrein 34 contact info |
NL (Panningen) | participant | 484˙026.00 |
| 4 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
Organization address
address: Via Festa Del Perdono 7 contact info |
IT (MILANO) | participant | 448˙616.00 |
| 5 |
EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR ANIMAL PRODUCTION
Organization address
address: Via Giuseppe Tomassetti 3 A/1 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 387˙880.00 |
| 6 |
GEA FARM TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
Organization address
address: SIEMENSSTRASSE 25-27 contact info |
DE (BOENEN) | participant | 310˙333.00 |
| 7 |
THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION OF ISRAEL - THE VOLCANI CENTRE
Organization address
address: Derech Hamcabim 68 contact info |
IL (BET DAGAN) | participant | 288˙876.00 |
| 8 |
THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE
Organization address
address: Royal College Street contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 288˙090.00 |
| 9 |
XENON NEW TECHNOLOGIES GCV
Organization address
address: TAMARISKLANN 3 contact info |
BE (KNOKKE) | participant | 280˙462.00 |
| 10 |
SP/F SYNTESA
Organization address
address: FYRI OMAN BRUGV 2 contact info |
FO (SYORUGOTA) | participant | 264˙902.00 |
| 11 |
SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: ARRHENIUSPLAN 4 contact info |
SE (UPPSALA) | participant | 254˙920.00 |
| 12 |
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
Organization address
address: TYNDALL AVENUE SENATE HOUSE contact info |
UK (BRISTOL) | participant | 217˙480.00 |
| 13 |
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE
Organization address
address: Rue De L'Universite 147 contact info |
FR (PARIS CEDEX 07) | participant | 181˙624.00 |
| 14 |
ABROX TECNIC SL
Organization address
address: CALLE VALENCIA - PLANTA 1 PUERTA 2 299 contact info |
ES (BARCELONA) | participant | 179˙520.00 |
| 15 |
PLF AGRITECH EUROPE LTD
Organization address
address: WOODBURN AVENUE 38 contact info |
UK (ABERDEEN) | participant | 157˙000.00 |
| 16 |
TEAGASC - AGRICULTURE AND FOOD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Organization address
address: Oak Park contact info |
IE (CARLOW) | participant | 108˙748.00 |
| 17 |
M & M CORPORATION COMMVA
Organization address
address: BOVENBOSSTRAAT 77 contact info |
BE (OUD HEVERLEE) | participant | 93˙160.00 |
| 18 |
STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK
Organization address
address: Costerweg 50 contact info |
NL (WAGENINGEN) | participant | 89˙240.00 |
| 19 |
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: DROEVENDAALSESTEEG 4 contact info |
NL (WAGENINGEN) | participant | 89˙239.00 |
| 20 |
NUTRITION SCIENCES NV
Organization address
address: BOOIEBOS 5 contact info |
BE (DRONGEN) | participant | 71˙580.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The objective of the EU-PLF project is to deliver a validated Blueprint for an animal and farm-centric approach to innovative livestock farming in Europe proven through extensive field studies. This blueprint represents a manual for farmers and their surrounding industry including high tech SME’s and other stakeholders. It is a reference tool offering pragmatic guidance on how Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) systems can be applied to farm level in order to create value for the farmer and other stakeholders. EU-PLF is based on the PLF concept that represents the continuously automated measurements directly on the animal or in its environment. Beyond the use of the PLF data (body movements or sounds, etc.) for monitoring and management, the data can be translated into key indicators on animal welfare, animal health, productivity and environmental impact.
Highly experienced European teams from different disciplines with a proven track record in animal and PLF-related fields - animal scientists, veterinarians, ethologists, bio-engineers, engineers, social scientists and economists, leading industrial market players in the livestock industry and high tech SME’s – have joined to deliver a useful PLF Blueprint. Most of the academic partners are leading previous research projects funded by the EU in animal and PLF related fields.
To ensure that the Blueprint assists the European livestock industry beyond the duration of the project, 50 SME’s or potential starters will be identified all over Europe to play a key role in the EU-PLF project. With a competition for SME’s and starters, the best ideas get funding to design a PLF-prototype with their high tech innovative solutions. In collaboration with a leading industrial PLF-partner, they use the Blueprint to bring their prototype to farm level. This allows developing business models and linking high tech SME’s to European industry players to create new PLF-products with global impact.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Livestock farms are increasing in size more than ever before, but the number of farmers that care of the farm animals has not grown proportionately. An EU initiative aims to introduce technology that provides automatic round-the-clock monitoring of animals to mitigate the negative socioeconomic and environmental consequences while improving animal health and welfare.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Farmers often struggle to deal with the size of today's livestock farms as a result of increased global demand for animal products. This can have detrimental effects on both animals and humans. One solution is precision livestock farming (PLF) that uses advanced technologies to monitor each animal. However, PLF tools that can perform highly automated processes at farms which have multiplied in scale are underdeveloped.
The EU-funded http://www.eu-plf.eu/ (EU-PLF) (Bright farm by precision livestock farming) project aims to achieve the full potential of PLF tools by developing them into commercial products and services for farmers at dairy, pig and poultry farms.
To achieve this, project partners have created a draft blueprint for farmers, high-tech small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and other key players interested in designing and using PLF tools. The reference manual provides guidance on managing and optimising animal production quickly and accurately.
The team defined a set of key indicators for animal welfare, animal health, environment and productivity. Based on these, several socioeconomic measures were identified to assess the value created by the use of PLF tools in farms.
Three generic tools were created to calculate the economic outcomes of implementing PLF applications for the three types of farms. Data is currently being gathered on several prototype image and sound monitoring systems that were installed and implemented at these farms. Analysis of audio and video data and the development of algorithms for monitoring have also begun.
Seventeen teams of SMEs are being trained for a competition that will provide funds to design a prototype PLF based on innovative solutions.
EU-PLF aims to bring the prototype to market. This will lead to the development of new business models and PLF products with worldwide impact.