WATERBEE DA
WaterBee Smart Irrigation Systems Demonstration Action
| Coordinatore | THE NATIONAL MICROELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS CENTRE LTD
Organization address
address: "SUPARULE HOUSE, LONSDALE ROAD NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICY PARK" contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Ireland [IE] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.waterbee.eu/ |
| Totale costo | 2˙075˙210 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙138˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2011 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-07-01 - 2013-06-30 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
THE NATIONAL MICROELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS CENTRE LTD
Organization address
address: "SUPARULE HOUSE, LONSDALE ROAD NATIONAL TECHNOLOGICY PARK" contact info |
IE (LIMERICK) | coordinator | 226˙127.00 |
| 2 |
OSV SRL
Organization address
address: Via Roma Nord 135 contact info |
IT (VILLA POMA) | participant | 146˙000.00 |
| 3 |
MC BURNEY SCIENTIFIC LTD
Organization address
address: VICTORIA COTTAGE CANON FRAME contact info |
UK (LEDBURY) | participant | 134˙800.00 |
| 4 |
CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: College Road contact info |
UK (CRANFIELD - BEDFORDSHIRE) | participant | 113˙617.00 |
| 5 |
INNOVACIO I RECERCA INDUSTRIAL I SOSTENIBLE SL
Organization address
address: AVENIDA DEL CANAL OLIMPIC 15 PARC MEDITERRANI DE LA TECNOLOGIA EDIFICIO C4 BLOQUE ANEXO PLANTA BAJA contact info |
ES (Castelldefels) | participant | 108˙800.00 |
| 6 |
LAQUA TREATMENT AB
Organization address
address: SIRIUSVAGEN 16 contact info |
SE (YNGSJO) | participant | 98˙256.00 |
| 7 |
INTERCROP IBERICA SL
Organization address
address: Ctra La palma Cartagena km 3 contact info |
ES (Cartagena) | participant | 85˙600.00 |
| 8 |
SEEDRI PUUKOOL OU
Organization address
address: POLLI contact info |
EE (KARSKI NUIA) | participant | 85˙600.00 |
| 9 |
CHADWICK MUSHROOM FARM LTD
Organization address
address: TAS SALIB - LIMITI TAR RABAT contact info |
MT (RABAT) | participant | 82˙800.00 |
| 10 |
UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS
Organization address
address: KALLIPOLEOS STREET 75 contact info |
CY (NICOSIA) | participant | 56˙400.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The WaterBee Smart Irrigation Demonstration Action is the follow-on phase from the very successful FP7-SME-007-1 WaterBee “Research for SMEs” project (222440) that ended in September 2010, & very convincingly researched, developed & proved the concept of the WaterBee Prototype to provide an unique scientific soil-moisture model that automatically adapts to each installation & crop with a distributed Web-based Wireless Sensor Networked (WSN) Smart Irrigation system to optimise Water Use Efficiency (WUE) in irrigation. There is a pressing need & excellent commercial opportunity for such a system in Agriculture, which is the largest industry in the world & (according to the WWF), wastes 60% of the 2,500 trillion litres of water it uses each year - which is 70% of the world's accessible water – a huge threat to the environment. A major culprit is inefficient water irrigation systems. In Europe irrigated agriculture is the biggest water consumer (over 60%) in the Mediterranean, where drought is an increasing problem. To bridge the gap from the very successful Research project, & enable its SMEs to be able to address this significant market opportunity, WaterBee will be scaled up to a full reliable operational field prototype service, that will be demonstrated & validated over a 15 month period with complete growing cycles of various crops in 6 contrasting sites across Europe, in Estonia, Italy, Malta, Sweden, Spain & UK, to quantify profitable operation of the WaterBee service for Growers, with water savings of 40% while enhancing crop quality in each site. The project will quantify the market & identify potential users of a commercial WaterBee Service. Based on these & ongoing feedback from the demonstration sites the project will disseminate the WaterBee service to potential customers & business partners through various media & 2 specific events, & develop/validate a Business Plan for the SMEs to commercially develop & exploit the service after this Demo Action ends.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Researchers have successfully demonstrated that a new, smart irrigation and water management system is commercially viable. The system allows farmers to save water by irrigating only when and where it is needed.