Summary
- Profile Type
- Research & Development Request
- POD Reference
- RDRIT20240712021
- Term of Validity
- 17 July 2024 - 17 July 2026
- Company's Country
- Italy
- Type of partnership
- Research and development cooperation agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
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Italian start-up is tackling the challenge of agricultural sustainability offering an innovative solution combining aquaponics, IoT, vertical farming technologies and AI. This approach maximizes space utilization and job efficiency, saves energy and conserves water, making it a superior alternative to traditional farming methods.
For Eurostars call deadline 12 September 2024 the italian start-up is searching for an ICT partner to develop system integration, user interface and AI system. - Full Description
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The Italian start-up is tackling the challenge of agricultural sustainability and inefficiency by offering an innovative solution combining aquaponics and vertical farming technologies. This approach maximizes space utilization and job efficiency, saves energy and conserves water, making it a superior alternative to traditional farming methods.
The company unique selling proposition lies in its patented technology, which enhances the nutrient absorption of plants, thereby offering healthier products to customers.
The target market includes health-conscious individuals and businesses in the HO.RE.CA. sector seeking high-quality, sustainable production. The Sme has already seen traction in its development, with a built MVP and trials indicating a strong market interest. This places the start-up at a pivotal point for scaling up and expanding customer base further.
The company aims to revolutionize agriculture by integrating aquaponics ecosystems with AI technologies. They focus on high-nutritional crops, minimizing environmental impact, offering a unique "farm to fork" service where customers can rent cultivation space.
Higher Nutrient Crops and Allergen-Free Products: By controlling the entire production process and utilizing advanced aquaponics, the start-up can produce crops with higher nutritional values and without allergens like nickel, directly addressing consumer health concerns.
PROBLEM
Pathologies, energy and water consumption, allergens, harmful treatments, scarce nutrients and organoleptic properties, microplastics, pollution, use of fossil fuels, optimization of work efficiency, optimization of spaces and their production. Furthermore, the start-up enhances food sovereignty and accessibility by offering a unique farming-on-demand service, reducing the distance between farm and fork and promoting a sustainable, eco-friendly agricultural model. The company addresses critical issues in agriculture by providing high-nutritional crops with minimal environmental impact through advanced aquaponics and AI technology.
The start-up technology/product is sustainable, encompassing significant social, economic and environmental impacts. Socially, it promotes food sovereignty and healthier diets through access to high-nutritional, contaminant-free produce, directly benefiting community health and well-being. Economically, it offers an innovative model for agriculture that can reduce operational costs through efficient resource use, potentially creating new jobs and supporting local economies by supplying fresh, locally grown food. Environmentally, the technology minimizes water and energy consumption, reduces the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides and promotes biodiversity, contributing to a reduction in agriculture's carbon footprint. By integrating advanced aquaponics and AI, it embodies a circular economy approach, reusing waste as resources and significantly lowering environmental impacts, making agriculture more sustainable for future generations. - Advantages and Innovations
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The start-up patented aquaponics system innovatively merges fish farming with plant cultivation in a self-sustaining cycle, reducing energy usage and naturally increasing nutrients into vegetables.
Central to the system is a symbiotic relationship where fish waste nourishes plants and plants cleans the water for fish, bypassing the need for chemical fertilizers and reducing water treatment demands. Designed for efficiency, the system curtails water and energy consumption through advanced recirculation methods.
High yields of both plants and fish are achieved sustainably, with cutting-edge technology like biosensors and IoT optimizing the environment for health and productivity.
This patented technology encompasses a comprehensive system designed to continuously monitor and automatically adjust the environmental conditions within an agricultural ecosystem, such as an aquaponics system, to optimize plant and fish growth.
Integrated Sensors/AI Control Unit/Automated Adjustments/Remote Monitoring and Management.
This patented device offers a novel solution for precision agriculture, enhancing sustainability by reducing resource waste and improving crop yield and fish health. It can be applied in various settings, including commercial aquaponics farms, indoor vertical farms and research facilities, contributing to the advancement of smart farming practices.
The Sme utilizes Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technology. The AI component is central to managing the ecosystem, from customer profiling through social media to the operation and productivity optimization within the aquaponics systems. This includes AI-driven data analysis for optimizing plant growth conditions and managing the nitrogenous cycle in a way that enhances agricultural sustainability. The Blockchain technology is employed to ensure traceability and security of data related to nutrients and treatments, offering transparency to customers about the food they consume. - Technical Specification or Expertise Sought
- The start-up is looking for partners to cooperate in the greenhouse hardware system integration, the user interface software upgrade for their patented Aquaponics ecosystem and also partners interested into the technology uses.
- Stage of Development
- Available for demonstration
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 2: Zero Hunger
- Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Goal 13: Climate Action
- Goal 15: Life on Land
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- IPR status
- IPR granted
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The start-up is looking for partners to cooperate in the greenhouse hardware system integration, the user interface software upgrade of patented Aquaponics ecosystem and also partners interested into the technology uses.
System integration: IoT Sensors data, plant bio sensors data, computer vision data from images, graphic interface for humans and Ai to manage the hardware and the ecosystem - Type and Size of Partner
- SME 11-49
- SME 50 - 249
- SME <=10
- Type of partnership
- Research and development cooperation agreement
Call details
- Framework program
- Eureka
- Call title and identifier
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Eurostars Call Deadline 12 September 2024
- Coordinator required
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Yes
- Deadline for EoI
- Deadline of the call
- Web link to the call
- https://eurekanetwork.org/opencalls/eurostars-funding-programme-2024-call-7/
- Eureka
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 07003001 - Aquaculture
- 07001004 - Crop Production
- 07001001 - Agriculture Machinery / Technology
- 08002003 - Safe production methods
- 08001005 - Food Technology
- Market keywords
- 09005 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, Animal Husbandry & Related Products
- 02007016 - Artificial intelligence related software
- Targeted countries
- All countries
