DEMETER is a project funded by the European Commission with a primary focus on driving the digital transformation of the agri-food sector to benefit farmers and the industry as a whole.
The project’s main objective is to expedite the implementation of data-driven, intelligent farming solutions that offer decision support and control systems for agricultural practices.
This empowers farmers to take better decisions, allowing them to harness the full value of their own data and knowledge as well as those shared with others.
Precision agriculture systems employ various communication, sensing, and data-processing technologies. Creating a new master system to incorporate others is not feasible due to scalability and governance issues.
DEMETER takes an overarching approach, integrating heterogeneous technologies and supporting fluid data exchange across the agri-food chain.
Within the DEMETER project, various services and platforms were delivered:
— Agricultural Interoperability Space (AIS)
— Brokerage Service Environment (BSE)
— DEMETER Agriculture Information Model (AIM)
— DEMETER Enabler Hub (DEH)
— Stakeholders Open Collaboration Space (SOCS)
— Access Control System (ACS)
The DEMETER Agriculture Information Model is a data model and ontology that describes all data needed by DEMETER applications and the usage of which ensures semantic interoperability between data and various components.
AIM offers a common language for different systems and devices to communicate and collaborate, enabling the creation of new applications and the monetization and reuse of existing data and devices.
The end-users and stakeholders benefiting from AIM:
Software Suppliers
Hardware Suppliers
Agri Suppliers
IT Services
The DEMETER Enabler HUB (DEH), as a fundamental module of the DEMETER Architecture, serves as a centralized repository for comprehensive descriptions of components, devices, services, data sources, platforms, and more, which can be accessed and utilized for deployment and exploitation.
The DEH facilitates resource registration, maintenance, and discovery, offering harmonized descriptions that enable component utilization within the co-creation mechanism via the SOCS. It also allows DEMETER Providers to promote their resources, making them reusable by various DEH users.
The targeted end-users and stakeholders of DEH:
Farmers
Software Suppliers
Hardware Suppliers
Agri Suppliers
IT Services
Advisory Services
Public Authorities
The DEMETER Stakeholders Open Collaboration Space (SOCS) is an online platform designed to facilitate collaboration, knowledge sharing, and co-creation among stakeholders in the agricultural sector.
The SOCS provides social networking and co-creation features that enable users to discover companies, analyze experiments and success stories, collaborate on common interests, share guidelines for integration with the DEMETER ecosystem, address farmers’ needs, and implement new applications.
The end-users and stakeholders targeted by the SOCS:
Farmers
Software Suppliers
Hardware Suppliers
Agri Suppliers
IT Services
Advisory Services
Public Authorities
The DEMETER pilot projects, implemented across 18 European countries, were utilized to demonstrate and evaluate the benefits of interoperability mechanisms for innovations and extended capabilities.
They were grouped into 5 clusters:
— Arable crops
— Precision farming in arable crops
— Fruit and vegetable production
— Livestock
— Supply chain
Development and implementation of digital agricultural tools and services over 4 years have led to significant benefits in both plant and animal production.
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