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Collaborative project: Sensor based monitoring and decision support for integrated pest management for greenhouse crops - subproject 2 (IPMaide)

Project


Project code: 2818506B18
Contract period: 15.11.2019 - 14.11.2022
Budget: 193,506 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: horticulture, vegetable production, integrated plant protection, animal pathogens, greenhouse cultivation / protected cultivation

In horticultural production, automatization and mechanization is existing in processes and procedures like irrigation and fertilization. However, there is a considerable need for development to interlink these processes and procedures to maintain the competitiveness of horticulture and to enable a sustainable production. Therefore, it is necessary that the production of horticultural products in greenhouses become more efficient by combining existing data (e.g. climate conditions in the greenhouse) and innovative sensor-based data for an optimized production system. In the project IPMaide, the main focus lays on the development of a digital assistance system in the form of an app. By using automated monitoring of pathogens for vegetables under glass this shall be realized in integrated plant-health measures. The appearance of pathogens will be determined by the use of different sensors, imaging techniques and automatic traps. As a result, depending on the appearance, timed and site specific measurement can be carried out. Therefore, the intelligent integration of different actions (beneficial insects, air-conditioning control under cover, chemical plant protection) into existing management systems are on focus to reduce the amount of plant protection products and to increase user protection. The aim is to collect, to process and to record information by using the app and after all to interact with existing information management systems in horticulture.

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