The newsletter provides an update on the FOODIE project, which aims to provide an open data platform for agricultural services. It discusses the ongoing pilots in Spain, Czech Republic, and Germany. It also summarizes past and upcoming events where the project has been presented, and outlines activities over the next months, including continuing to develop the pilots and presenting at various agriculture conferences.

1. contact@foodie-project.eu
Issue 5 (October 2015)
FOODIE Newsletter
FOODIE Team'scorner
DearMembersof FOODIECommunity,
FOODIE project has just entered in the second half of its schedule. This fifth issue concerns the period from July to
October 2015 and presents the activities carried out by the partners and the last results achieved.
In addition, you are provided with an overview of the upcoming events and a brief summary of the past events
where the FOODIE Team presented the project.
We hope you find the information interesting and would appreciate your feedback.
ABOUT FOODIE
FOODIE is a co-funded research project within the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP)
programme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
The project is devoted to provide agri-food stakeholders with a cloud-based platform offering agricultural services
based on open data. Such stakeholders comprise farmers with their direct stakeholders like suppliers, buyers and/or
service organizations, data (vector, raster, alphanumeric) suppliers, service and/or software providers, Ministries of
Agriculture, Chambers of Agriculture, Environmental organizations, and so on. For more details, please refer to the
pu lished deli era le D6.1.1 Co u ity uildi g report .
Three pilots have been implemented in order to demonstrate the objectives and achievements of the project:
 Pilot 1: Precision Viticulture (Spain).
 Pilot 2: Open Data for Strategic and Tactical planning (Czech Republic).
 Pilot 3: Technology allows integration of logistics via service providers and farm management including traceability
(Germany).
The project duration is for 36 months; it started on 1 March 2014 and will be completed on 28 February 2017. The
FOODIE consortium comprises 12 organisations from 7 countries.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS
A step forward has been taken towards the evaluation of sustainability of the FOODIE platform beyond the project
duration in order to guarantee a return on investment (ROI). Two generic models are initially considered:
a) FOODIE platform could continue working as a service supporting several data and applications for third parties, and
b) FOODIE Consortium could sell the technology with or without data, with or without applications, e.g. to implement it
within a specific region or country.
A combined bottom up and top down model has been designed to make partners and stakeholders understand the
needs of technology integration, cooperation and potential benefits. Such evaluation is being undertaken within the
fra e ork of “ustai a ility a d tra sfera ility of FOODIE ser i e platfor task. For this purpose several surveys are
collecting the willingness of each FOODIE partner to team up, the extent of involvement and the SWOT analysis of the
exploitable results. It will be essential to review the know-how of involved partners related to agriculture or related
industries like forestry, environment management.

2. PILOT EXECUTION PROGRESS
Spanish Pilot
The Spanish Pilot continues its development according to the schedule. The main objectives of the Spanish Pilot are the
precise management of the inherent variability of crops, for instance by variable-rate application (VRA) of inputs,
selective harvesting, greater precision and efficiency of samplings or prevention of pests.
Sensors Installation – 3rd
of September, 2015
The stage of execution is progressing, and in early September SERESCO installed a weather station and the first sensor
mote in the vineyards of Terras Gauda.
First, SERESCO proceeded with the installation and geo-positioning of the weather station (including rain and wind
speed sensors). It is not simple to assemble and requires levelling for proper operation, but it was eventually well
located.
This pilot is supported by a set of software components to register information and to represent it in a complete and
usable way. Thus, use cases implemented are those devoted to register treatments, production and samplings (for
analysis) and those devoted to display geo-referenced information such as vegetation indexes, treatments, historical
production and historical results of the analysis of samples.
Then, SERESCO continued with the installation of one of the motes that include
more sensors (temperature and humidity, temperature in the foliage, moisture on
foliage, leaf wetness and soil temperature). The mote is already broadcasting
information. The following picture shows the situation of these two components
actually in the plot of Terras Gauda vineyards.
The Terras Gauda s Tea is goi g to i stall the rest of the se sor otes i their plots.
The information gathered will be stored in the FOODIE platform, and will serve as an essential element in the analysis
for the elaboration of plans for the management of precision viticulture zones, and for making recommendations such
as irrigation, fertilization, herbicidal and phytosanitary treatments, when and where to start the harvesting, and
predictions on expected production by management zone.
Czech pilot
The Czech Pilot is addressed to improve management and logistic of farms and
agriculture service companies, introducing new tools and crop management
methods for reduction of environmental burden while maintaining production
level.
In the Czech pilot machinery and meteorological data has been collected for
almost seven months and the data collection process continues. As the first
part of project is called proof-of concept stage, we have been experimenting
with various settings of monitoring units to find the most suitable values of
parameters affecting data collecting frequency.

3. German Pilot
The goals of the German Pilot is the development of a digital geography of all farmers, farms and fields in a region
(country) including the corresponding agricultural expert information, plus all infrastructure data needed for further
agricultural applications up to logistic and precision farming tasks.
At the moment PROGIS is working on the transfer of anonymized data of all participants to show ortho-images, LPIS
data and tracks on FOODIE as well as FOODIE platform.
PAST EVENTS
EFITA/WCCA/CIGR 2015 Conference
29 June - 2 July 2015, Poznan, Poland
FOODIE Project was presented at EFITA/WCCA/CIGR 2015
Conference, in the framework of a Paper written by SERESCO and
entitled Smart Agro-Services in the Farm-Oriented Open Data in
Europe (FOODIE) Platform: Insights from the Automatic
Delimitation of Management Zones . The presentation was made
by Rodolfo de Benito, who is Business Analyst in SERESCO,
participating in the development of the Spanish Pilot.
15th International Conference Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (CMMSE)
06 - 10 July 2015, Cadiz, Spain
FOODIE Project was presented at CMMSE 2015.
It was an extraordinary occasion to introduce FOODIE project
through a work done by SERESCO about a potential smart agro-
service for the automatic delimitation of arable land based on
clustering algorithms and Landsat 8 imagery.
The work was presented by Rodolfo de Benito, who is part of the
team involved in the development of the Spanish Pilot, in the FOODIE
project.

4. Expo Milan 2015 – Coldiretti Pavilion
23 August 2015, Milan, Italy
FOODIE Project was presented to agri-food stakeholders, mainly farmers and primary sector operators from the Veneto
Region, visiting the Coldiretti (the Association of Italian Farmers) Pavillion. The scope pursued was to make them aware
of the goals of the project and the functionalities of the platform (principally the use of spatial data and the farm
management tools). Stefano Savaris (Consorzio BIM) provided a general overview of the strategic value of the
platform, also presenting the experience of the three FOODIE pilot projects. Regional and national representatives of
Coldiretti and local administrators including Roberto Padrin, Vice President of the Province of Belluno, intervened in
this event.
29th International conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection (EnviroInfo & ICT4S)
07-09 September 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark
WIRELESSINFO submitted a Paper entitled "Open Data Model for Precision
Agriculture Applications and Agricultural Pollution Monitoring" with the
scope to present the FOODIE Project. We invite you to enjoy the paper,
following this link (page 32):
http://enviroinfo2015.org/documents/EnviroInfo_abstracts2015_Final.pdf
International Conference on Information Systems for Agriculture
and Forestry (ISAF 2015)
14 - 16 September 2015, Dresden, Germany
FOODIE project was presented at ISAF 2015, 19th
International Conference on Information Systems for
Agriculture and Forestry, together with Open Data
Hackathon for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment,
Tourism and Rural development and the Club of
Ossiach Networking Event.
The FOODIE presentation, entitled Collecting farm
related machinery and sensor data in the cloud-based
platform , has been uploaded to the FOODIE
repository on the website: http://www.foodie-
project.eu/downloads.php?idc=22
AgriFutureDays 2015
28 – 30 September 2015, Beijing, China
PROGIS and WIRELESSINFO presented FOODIE project in occasion of the AgriFutureDays, the 3-day event focused on
the future of the agricultural sector.
The AgriFutureDays, organised by Club of Ossiach (CoO), took place in cooperation with the CAAS (Chinese Academy
of Agricultural Sciences) and their 8th ISIITA (International Symposium on Intelligent Information Technology) and
the 9th CCTA (International Conference on Computer and Computing).
This event attracted senior representatives from leading government, research and commercial organizations from
around the world. They shared their knowledge, experience, lessons learnt and good practice related to ICT adoption
in the rural area business and all affiliated sectors.
FOODIE as prese ted i the fra e of the se sor ased spee h Wireless
Sensors Network as resource of local information in Frame of FATIMA/
Interoperability – one from the key topics for e-Agri ulture by Karel Charvat
(WRLS) as well as during the workshops E a li g I o atio for I for i g
far ers a d ICT supporti g I o ati e Ad isory “er i es orga ised y
Walter Mayer (PROGIS and Club of Ossiach) and Ajit Maru (GFAR-Global
Forum on Agricultural Research).
During this event a great deal of discussion with all participants about the technology drivers, the technology barriers
and the opportunities of the use of ICT in agriculture was done.

5. GI 2015
15 September 2015, Dresden, Germany
FOODIE was presented during this event in occasion of two workshops E a li g I o atio for I for i g far ers a d
ICT supporti g I o ati e Ad isory “er i es orga ised y Karl Char at W‘L“ a d Walter Mayer P‘OGI“ .
Afterwards chances, problems and opportunities of the use of ICT in Agriculture were discussed with interested farmers
from more than 10 countries. For more details, please visit the following page:
http://de.slideshare.net/IGN_Vorstand/gi2015-programmeproceedings
Expo Milan 2015
5 October 2015, Milan, Italy
ENCO, BIM and PROGIS presented the FOODIE project at the EXPO Milano 2015. The event, held in the Pavilion of
Coldiretti, the Federation of Italian Farmers, was addressed to potential FOODIE Platform End-Users, namely public
administrations, farmers and farmers associations.
The debate focussed on:
 FOODIE Project, its scope and activities, first results achieved (Simona Mincione, ENCO).
 The role of the public administration in the FOODIE project (Stefano Savaris, BIM).
 The German Pilot: an integrated model for farm management, logistics with mobile communication and precision
farming (Walter H. Mayer, PROGIS).
Further, presentations by high-profile invited speakers were included. The following main topics were tackled:
 A potential future application: the FOODIE service Platform for management of the Alpine hut and mountain
farming (Michele Nenz, Coldiretti).
 GIS data for the spatial planning and management (Giorgio Balzan, SIT).
 Information and communication technologies for the management of complex rural region (Giuliano Vantaggi,
UNESCO Dolomites Foundation).
Source:
http://www.ansa.it/canale_expo2015/notizie/news/201
5/10/05/da-consorzio-bim-belluno-progetto-
foodie_2cfa7500-95cb-4ea8-bffa-d412f59830bd.html
9th Symposium of the International Society for Digital
Earth (ISDE 2015)
05 - 10 October 2015, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
FOODIE project was presented during the International
Symposium on Digital Earth in Halifax, Canada, at the
beginning of October 2015.
FOODIE has been recognized as a crucial platform for the
concept of Digital Earth since machinery sensor monitoring
represents a promising future development of the
geospatial applications in the domain of (precision) farming.
It has been considered as an example of ecological and
economic synergies.

6. ICT 2015 Innovate, Connect, Transform
20 October 2015, Lisbon, Portugal - Networking session focused o Buildi g Apps Based o Ope “patial Data .
There is big potential in exploiting open (spatial) data for businesses and human well-being. There is a large number
of projects and SMEs trying to develop apps that could be commercialised or made self-sustainable. The apps are
built based on open spatial data published through various initiatives such as INSPIRE, GEOSS or Copernicus, by
public administration and voluntary initiatives. The objective of the networking session was to exchange experience
about the commercialization and long-term sustainability of such applications. This session was organized by the
OpenTransportNet, SDI4Apps, FOODIE and SmartOpenData projects.
FOODIE project was presented by Marco de la Feld (ENCO) and Karel Charvat (WRLS) and the session was mainly
focused on challenging results reached by FOODIE project (Data models, Integration of Copernicus and GEOSS data
with national Open Data).
UPCOMING EVENTS
FOODIE Team will be presenting the project at the following events:
 28 – 30 October 2015, AgroManagement 2015, Belgorod, Russia
 10 – 14 November 2015, Agritechnica 2015, Hannover, Germany
 16 – 17 February 2015, GFIA (Global Forum for innovation and agriculture), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
PAPERS, ARTICLES & PRESENTATIONS
The project website houses the FOODIE Repository. It gathers all the articles published on magazines of interest, papers
submitted to a selection of international conferences and journals for scientific dissemination purposes. Click here to
learn more!
PUBLIC DELIVERABLES
Check the FOODIE repository out which gathers all the project public deliverables. To learn more, please click the
following link: http://www.foodie-project.eu/downloads.php?idc=5
MEDIA
Take a peek at the media corner of FOODIE project! More videos will be available soon!
Join FOODIE on Twitter, Facebook, slideshare and LinkedIn and share your comments and opinions with us!
Are you interested in getting involved within FOODIE project? Do you see an interesting connection between FOODIE
and your sector or your team? Write us and we will explore the opportunity to collaborate.
Should you be interested in receiving further information about the project to forward and hand out to interested
parties, please let us know and we will provide you with a brief presentation.
Lear a out the proje t s goal, its a kgrou d a d its strategy a d do load the FOODIE Flyer i :
English
Spanish
German
Italian
Czech
Polish
Turkish
Translation of the FOODIE Flyer in more languages will be available in the next issue of the project newsletter!
Please disseminate this newsletter amongst your potentially interested colleagues and networks.
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework
Programme by the European Commission under grant agreement no. 621074
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7. Miguel Ángel Esbrí (Project Coordinator)
Atos Spain, S.A.
C/ Albarracín, 25 - 28037 Madrid (Spagna)
Email: miguel.esbri@atos.net
contact@foodie-project.eu
„Wyłączną odpowiedzialność za treść niniejszej broszury ponoszą
jej autorzy. Unia Europejska nie ponosi żadnej odpowiedzialności za
ewentualne wykorzystanie zawartych w niej informacji.”
www.foodie-project.eu
www.man.poznan.pl
www.tdf.lv
www.consorziobimpiave.bl.itwww.enco-consulting.it
www.mjm.cz www.progis.com
www.netcad.com
www.wirelessinfo.cz
www.atos.net
www.terrasgauda.com
WYZWANIE
Sektor rolno-spożywczy jest sektorem unikalnym pod
względem strategicznym, dlatego powinna go tworzyć
sieć współpracujących ze sobą organizacji. Ich członk-
owie korzystają z wielu heterogenicznych źródeł
informacji, takich jak:
- deiniowanie procedur,
- ocena działań proekologicznych,
- rozwój rolnictwa ekologicznego,
- zbiory plonów, określenie terminów i cen,
- wykrywanie zagrożenia chorobami.
W tym kontekście przyszłe systemy zarządzania
danymi dotyczącymi rolnictwa muszą nie tylko
wspierać bezpośrednią opłacalność tego sektora czy
też ochroną środowiska w tym zakresie, ale równ-
ież łączyć i koordynować działania podejmowane w
obrębie tego sektora przez jego pracowników, konsu-
mentów, urzędników oraz społeczności beneicjentów.
Projekt częściowo inansowany w programie ramowym na rzecz
konkurencyjności i innowacji w ramach programu na rzecz
wspierania polityki dotyczącej technologii informacyjnych i
komunikacyjnych na mocy umowy nr. 621074

8. CELE INNOWACYJNOŚĆ OPIS WERSJI PILOTOWYCH
Projekt FOODIE zakłada realizację
następujących celów:
budowa otwartej, interoperacyjnej platformy informa-
tycznej oferującej usługi chmurowe, umożliwiającej zar-
ządzanie przestrzennymi i nieprzestrzennymi
danymi dotyczącymi rolnictwa, pozyskiwanymi z
heterogenicznych źródeł;
integracja istniejących już na terenie Europy, otwartych
zbiorów danych dotyczących rolnictwa;
publikowanie i łączenie danych dotyczących rolnictwa z
zewnętrznych źródeł za pośrednictwem interfejsu API;
świadczenie specjalizowanych usług i aplikacji
wspierających procesy planowania i podejmowania
decyzji przez różne grupy beneicjentów;
budowa portalu umożliwiającego odnajdywanie i wy-
mianę danych, na którym irmy zewnętrzne będą mo-
gły publikować swoje aplikacje dla rolnictwa oparte na
danych, usługach i aplikacjach udostępnianych przez
FOODIE.
Projekt FOODIE uwzględnia następujące,
innowacyjne aspekty w sektorze
rolno-spożywczym:
wdrażanie w chmurze podstawowych i znormali-
zowanych usług w celu obniżenia nie tylko kosztów
wdrażania, ale również kosztów produkcji i
utrzymania;
możliwość łatwego wyszukania usług i łączenia ich
z innymi usługami;
system przedpłat (ang. “Pay as you go”);
systemy nagradzania za udostępnianie danych;
klarowny zwrot z inwestycji (ROI) dla użytkownika
końcowego;
wieloplatformowa aplikacja końcowa o uniwersalnej
funkcjonalności.
Realizacja koncepcji i celów projektu FOODIE odbywa
się za pośrednictwem platformy usługowej, która
zostanie zaprezentowana w trzech wersjach pilo-
towych na terenie Europy, przy czym każda z nich
spełnia wspólne oraz wyspecyikowane wymogi:
Wersja 1: Precision Viticulture (Hiszpania) skoncentruje
się na właściwym zarządzaniu ideą zróżnicowania plonów;
Wersja 2: Open Data for Strategic and Tactical Plan-
ning (Czechy) skupi się na usprawnieniu przyszłego
systemu zarządzania gospodarstwami rolnymi dzięki
wprowadzeniu nowych narzędzi i metod zarządzania;
Wersja 3: Technology for Integration of Logistics via
Service Providers and Farm Management (Niemcy)
skoncentruje się na integracji systemów Machine
Cooperatives z istniejącymi systemami zarządzania
gospodarstwami rolnymi i logistycznymi oraz
opracowaniu i rozbudowaniu istniejących mode-
li współpracy i biznesowych z innymi partnerami.

9. Miguel Ángel Esbrí (Project Coordinator)
Atos Spain, S.A.
C/ Albarracín, 25 - 28037 Madrid (Spain)
Email: miguel.esbri@atos.net
contact@foodie-project.eu
“Bu bro ürün içeri i yalnızca yazarın görü lerini yansıtır ve
Avrupa Birli i burada yer alan herhangi bir bilginin
kullanımından sorumlu de ildir. ”
www.foodie-project.eu
www.man.poznan.pl
www.tdf.lvwww.mjm.cz www.progis.com
www.netcad.com
www.wirelessinfo.cz
www.atos.net
www.terrasgauda.com
www.consorziobimpiave.bl.itwww.enco-consulting.it
Tarım sektörü, ideal olarak etkile im içinde olan bir
kurumlar a ı tarafından olu turulması gereken,
stratejik olarak benzersiz bir sektördür. Faaliyetleri
esnasında, böylesi payda lar birçok farklı ve türde
olmayan bilgi kayna ını yönetmek durumundadır.
• Politikaların belirlenmesi
• Ekolojik performansın de erlendirilmesi
• Sürdürülebilir tarımın geli tir ilmesi; ürün
hafızası, zamanlama ve fiyatlamanın
belirlenmesi
• Hastalık tespiti
Bu ba lamda, gelecekteki tarım bilgi yönetim
sistemleri, tarımın do rudan karlılı ı ya da çevrenin
korunmasının yanı sıra tarım gıda endüstrisinin,
tüketicinin, kamu yöneticisinin ve di er payda ların
davranı ve faaliyetlerinin birle tirilmesi ve koordine
edilmesini de içermek durumundadır.
Bu proje 621074 numaralı anla ma dahilinde Avrupa Komisyonu
tarafından Rekabet Edebilirlik ve Yenilik Çerçeve Programının bir
parçası olan ICT Politikaları Destek Programı (ICT PSP) kapsamında
kısmen finanse edilmi tir.

10. AMAÇLAR YENİLİKÇİ BAKIŞ AÇILARI PİLOTLARIN TANIMI
FOODIE projesi şunları amaçlar:
• Çeşitli kaynaklardan beslenen coğrafi ve coğrafi
olmayan verilerin yönetimi için açık ve birlikte
çalışabilen tarım odaklı bir bulut platformu
geliştirmek.
• Tarımla ilişkili açık ve değerli Avrupa veri
kümelerinin bütünleştirilmesi.
• Bir Uygulama Programı Arabirimi (API)
vasıtasıyla, tarımsal dış veri kaynaklarından
gelen veri yayınlarının bağlantılandırılması.
• Farklı paydaş gruplarının karar alma
süreçlerinin planlamasına destek olmak
için belirli ve yüksek değerli uygulamalar
sağlamak.
• Verinin keşfedilebildiği, değiş tokuş
edilebildiği ve FOODIE’nin ve dış şirketlerin
bu veri üzerinde çalışan kendi uygulamalarını
ve servislerini yayınlayabileceği bir pazar yeri
sağlamak.
FOODIE projesi çeşitli yenilikçi bakış açıları
sunuyor:
• Temel ve standartlaştırılmış servislerin bulut
üzerinden dağıtılmasıyla, dağıtım
masraflarının yanı sıra üretim ve bakım
maliyetlerinin de azaltılması.
• Servislerin kolaylıkla keşfedilebilmesi
ve birleştirilebilmesi
• Kullandığın kadar öde paradigması
• Veri paylaşımını ödüllendirme mekanizmaları
• Son kullanıcı açısından açık
Yatırım Getirisi (ROI)
• Çoklu cihaz /çoklu platform destekli çok
amaçlı ön yüzler
FOODIE kavramları ve amaçları, Avrupa’da yer alan ve
her biri ortak ve belirli gereksinimlere sahip üç farklı
pilot senaryosuyla gösterilecek ve hayata geçirilen
servis platformu aracılığıyla gerçekleştirilecektir.
• Pilot 1: Hassas Bağcılık (İspanya) ürünlerin
doğal çeşitliliğinin uygun bir şekilde
yönetilmesine odaklanacak.
• Pilot 2: Stratejik ve Taktiksel Planlama için
Açık Veri (Çek Cumhuriyeti) yeni araçlar ve
yönetim yöntemleri ile tarımsal şirketlerinin
gelecekteki yönetimlerinin geliştirilmesine
odaklanacak.
• Pilot 3: Servis sağlayıcı ve çiftlik yönetiminin
izlenebilirliği de içeren bütünleştirmeyi
sağlayan teknoloji (Almanya). Bu pilot Alman
makine kooperatifleri sistemlerinin mevcut
çiftlik yönetimi ve lojistik sistemleriyle
bütünleştirilmesinin yanı sıra mevcut
işbirliğinin ve iş modellerinin geliştirilmesi ve
yaygınlaştırılmasına odaklanacak.