Stories about transformational innovation are more believable and compelling when they involve an urgent and escalating issue. Ireland’s Agriculture sector competes not on quantity, but on quality. With an ever increasing demand on our food production systems, to help feed the worlds growing population, we are starting to see the pressure food production is placing on our natural environment.
Stories about transformational innovation are more believable and compelling when they involve an urgent and escalating issue. Ireland’s Agriculture sector competes not on quantity, but on quality. With an ever increasing demand on our food production systems, to help feed the worlds growing population, we are starting to see the pressure food production is placing on our natural environment.
The current pandemic has led to the wide recognition of the importance of digital transformation for our immediate economic recovery and future resilience. With a strong focus on reshaping the Agri-Food Sector through the use of agricultural technologies (AgriTech), with applications of Intelligent Secure IoT Networks, Artificial Intelligence (AI), High Performance Computing (HPC), and a strong focus on data-driven analytical techniques.
The precision agriculture specialist area within Walton Institute focuses on investigating novel paradigms of how technology will transform food production to meet humanity’s demands in future. We work on both national and international projects, applying our expertise into areas of great impact, ranging from novel communication paradigms that will derive and relay information about dairy farming (VistaMilk) , interoperable smart farming-IoT based platforms (DEMETER), to the digitisation of Europe’s agricultural sector by fostering an Irish eco system that will contribute to innovative excellence, sustainability and success (SmartAgriHubs).
For more information on our agri related projects see below.
Walton Institute has its own publicly accessible Research Data Centre that houses a Smart Agriculture IoT testbed. By engaging with Walton Institute and its researchers, you will have access to the Smart Agriculture IoT Testbed. The Research Data Centre, is flexible to access and can facilitate:
The need for physical segregation of data and additional security is important, for many working in agri-tech. As such we provide space for research in new paradigms – such as wireless-only data centres.
Walton’s research data centre as well as hosting national research testbeds and supporting H2020 research projects, can offer SMEs and other regional stakeholders the human expertise, technical infrastructure, operational standards and best practices needed to advance their digitalisation processes and secure their future sustainability.
The Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre VistaMilk is hosted by Teagasc in partnership with Walton Institute, Tyndall National Institute, Insight Centre for Data Analytics (at UCD, NUIG, DCU) and Irish Cattle Breeding Association (ICBF). The VistaMilk SFI Research Centre aims to be an agent of growth for the Irish dairy industry by being a world leader in fundamental and translational research for precision pasture-based dairying.
The overarching objective of the VistaMilk SFI Research Centre is to generate and deploy innovative basic and applied science and technologies to better understand and monitor the complex interactions across a highly inter-dependent food-production chain. This will be achieved by exploring three inter-dependent thematic areas – Pasture, Cow and Food – bringing together expertise in the biological sciences, sensor-systems, communications and networking, data analytics, and food processing.
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