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RoTechnology, always committed to finding innovative and challenging research projects, participated in the ECS Brokerage Event 2019, held on 15 and 16 January in Brussels.

The ECS Brokerage Event has put together mediation activities for the industrial associations of AENEAS, ARTEMIS-IA and EPoSS in a networking context with the aim of presenting project proposals in the field of Electronic Components and Systems.

This event allowed the strengthening of the ECS community by combining project and expert proposals and facilitating work in the exchange of information and research for the creation of new project proposals.

The event was linked with the ECS Collaboration Tools; the online tools that enables users to start projects and invite partners, or use the communication system to search for partners or projects.

After forming consortia, online and at the ECS Brokerage Event, the project teams were able to plan the best mechanism to finance their project with National funds, ECSEL-JU, European Commission or EUREKA.

As in previous years, the Security Mission Information & Innovation Group (SMI2G) is running a two-day event, 29 and 30 January 2019, in Brussels to discuss the topic Secure Societies for Horizon 2020.

Gianluca Rossi, head of our Race Office, is participating in the brokerage event where all security topics are represented and which also offers a networking platform to encourage innovative ideas and simplify the creation of consortia.

The SMI2G focuses on the characteristics of Horizon 2020 (H2020) with the prospect of exchanging information on Secure Societies calls to incentivize interconnection and consortium construction.

The main objective is to give delegates the opportunity to create ideas and partners for every open research call of the EU Security Research Program.

In this year, the meeting convened over 400 delegates, representing SMEs, Research Professionals and Technological Organizations, Academy and Industry from all EU MSs and associated countries. The event focuses on the H2020 Work Program for Secure Societies “Protecting the freedom and security of Europe and its citizens.”

The plenary meeting for the ECSEL project, funded by the European Union, AFarCloud (Aggregate Farming in the Cloud) took place from 6 to 8 March 2019 in Vienna; Ro Technology, in the person of Diego Grimani, was present as a technological partner.

Organized six months after the kick-off of last September 2018 in Madrid, the Vienna event was the second occasion, for all partners, to put in place ideas about the project, strengthen collaborations, share and verify progress through a series of meetings and conferences held at the TU Wien, the Technical University of Vienna.

The AFarCloud project is part of a series of research projects that aim to develop effective and sustainable solutions for agriculture and breeding. The aim is to cope with the growing difficulties of the sector and the need to contain the criticalities that have arisen in recent years – and which are expected to increase for the years to come – both from the environmental point of view and from the point of view of human work.

The Vienna meeting, organized to check the progress and plan the solutions that will be brought to the 12th month meeting, focused on the progress and developments made in the context of the project’s demonstrators: three holistic (Finland, Spain and Italy ), aimed at testing complex management scenarios in the field of agriculture and livestock, and two premises (Latvia and the Czech Republic), which will instead test specific functionalities.

With the aim, therefore, of bringing the Italian demonstrator to an adequate state of maturity, the opportunity was profitable, for the Italian partners, to confront and strengthen their own synergy, fielding ideas capable of bringing added value to the project. This atmosphere of creativity and collaboration has subsequently led to the inspection of the Podere Campaz of Forlì by Ro Technology, CNR and the University of Parma, in view of the third installation of the DAMON sensor, the new system of the Research & Development area that registers parameters meteorological (temperature, humidity, pressure and brightness), and environmental parameters (soil moisture, earth characteristics and pH), aimed at assisting in monitoring the most common pest infestations and, within AFarCloud, to acquire real data from make available for the development of the Italian demonstrator.

In addition to DAMON, the sensors of the SEAMLESS project will also become part of the contribution that Ro Technology is offering for the realization of the demonstrator, while an inspection is already underway at the Busti dairy (Pisa), in view of a new installation.
With AFarCloud, the Research & Development Area proves once again to be up to the challenges posed by technological research, adding value to its contribution also thanks to the know-how acquired through its innovative internal projects.

The fields of application and the potential of DAMON (DAta Monitoring sensors Network), the brand new project of the Research & Development area of ​​Ro Technology, are very numerous, as shown by the latest news regarding the new installations of the sensor prototype for monitoring the agricultural crops.
As reported at the beginning of the year, the first DAMON was mounted on December 30, 2018 and, since then, the developments have not stopped: after the success at the olive grove, a new sensor was installed, last March 14 , in the area of ​​Ronciglione, an important area, from the agricultural point of view, for the cultivation of the classic Roman hazelnut.
The new DAMON, in fact, has been planted in a hazelnut grove that supplies two large multinationals, projecting the growth of RoTechnology towards new market opportunities.
The news on DAMON does not end there: inspections are underway at Podere Campaz in Forlì for a third installation that will take place by summer. The latter sensor will have the task of acquiring real data to be made available in the development of the Italian demonstrator for the AFarCloud smart-farming research project, of which Ro Technology is one of the partners.
Despite the different installation zones, and the variety of data collected, each individual DAMON works towards the common goal of creating an interconnected sensor network capable of handling large amounts of data. In this regard, in fact, DAMON Web will soon be available, the dedicated application that will provide a convenient web interface to all users who own at least one DAMON sensor installed in their field. DAMON Web will allow the quick visualization of all the devices associated to the user’s profile, geolocated and displayed in dashboards on a map, in the form of PoI (Points of Interest). Furthermore, associated with each individual PoI it will be possible to consult the values ​​of the data sent by the sensor, obtain a representation of it in the form of a graph, and view the photos taken on the spot.
With DAMON, once again, the Research and Development area of ​​Ro Technology proves to be a prolific laboratory of ideas in which the creativity of the individual, supported by the team’s abilities, can give life to projects with immense potential for growth and application.