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Titre : INTEL-IRRIS : Intelligent Irrigation System for Low-cost Autonomous Water Control in Small-scale Agriculture

Pays/Région : Morocco ; Algeria

Date : Start date 2021-06-01 // End date 2024-05-31

Identifiant : 459-INTEL-IRRIS

Objectif
Therefore, Intel-IrriS main objectives are : * to reduce the cost of intelligent technologies for smallholders – dividing the cost by a factor between 10 and 100 * to increase adoption of innovative technologies by smallholders by “translating” raw data into readable information used for deciding on irrigation adjustment * to increase on a long-term the smallholders’ sustained production and income, as well as the local innovation opportunities and capacities.

Présentation
The goal of Intel-IrriS is to save water and increase water usage efficiency while considering the specificities of socioeconomic contexts of smallholder farmers and current irrigation practices. Existing solutions are generally costly and provide raw data that small farmers cannot use directly.

When adopting a low-cost design approach, the reliability and accuracy of the collected data can dramatically limit the efficiency of the deployed system. Intel-IrriS will propose a low-cost water control system. Still, they will improve its efficiency : * by enabling the deployment of several complementary low-cost sensors, * by using the automatic and advanced calibration of the different sensors to increase accuracy* by including agricultural models/knowledge with corrective & predictive analytics

Coordinateur : University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour (UPPA)
Partenaires : Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris (iEES) University of Oran University of Mostaganem WAZIUP Agricultural University of Athens École nationale des sciences appliquées de Safi (ENSA SAFI) Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA-MAROC)

Financement principal : Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) (H2020)
Budget : 1 045 120 EUR

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