EFITA Newsletter / 668

Alternate ways to get High Resolution Crop Imagery and Scanning
See: http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/what-drones-and-crop-dusters-can-teach-about-minimum-viable-product/

FIspace prepares its commercial exploitation
FIspace is developing a multi-domain Business Collaboration Space that employs FIWARE technologies to enable seamless collaboration in open, cross-organizational business networks. The aim is to start the commercial exploitation of the FIspace Platform as a service once Phase 2 ends (i.e. April 2015).
The commercial exploitation will be supported by the FIspace Foundation. This foundation will take over all the results of the FIspace project (software code, documentation, the FIspace website) from the project consortium partners at the end of the project (April 2015). The Foundation will in principle make this material available to companies that would like to commercially exploit it and agree with the FIspace standards and its dispute resolution procedure.
This means that the FIspace Foundation will sustain the platform as a de facto standard with an accompanying open source reference implementation. Several companies (first from within the current FIspace project partners) will ensure commercial exploitation by making available a specific instance of the platform. This exploitation will be based on the FIspace platform standards and reference technology implementations, which will be maintained by the FIspace Foundation.
An important aspect in this process is the support to the FIWARE Accelerators, now and once commercial exploitation starts. Such support currently takes place through the training program (that started in July); the online documentation aimed notably at App developers and platform providers. It will be soon complemented by an Experimentation Environment that will enable different stakeholders to explore, test, and interact with FIspace services in a controlled environment. Authorised by the FIspace Foundation current project partners will continue that service for Phase-3 accelerators who not have moved to commercial exploitation.
See: http://www.fispace.eu/commercial_exploitation.html

Flspace Video Tutorials
A useful tool for any of the call applicants to review to get to know the FIspace platform:
- Introduction to FIspace (Video 1)
- High level explanation of the 2 extension mechanisms
-- Introduction (architecture and adding value-add functionality through Apps, and configuration workflows) (Video 2)
-- Apps development overview (Video 3)
-- Workflows overview (Video 4)
- High level summary of platform features, roadmap and tools for Developers (Video 5)
- Experimentation environment (Video 6)
- Business models and exploitation (Video 7)
- FIspace-platform-interaction: Demonstration of FIspace Platform using two different approaches: Business Architect and FIspace application developer (Video 8)
- FIspace apps interaction example using weather condition scenario (Video 9)
- How to install the FIspace Studio Tool (Video 10)
- How to install subtitle (Video 11)
- FIspace project wizard: creating the different kind of FIspace projects. (Video 12): Widget project; Decoupled project; Compact project

The SmartAgriFood accelerator wants to fund web entrepreneurs and SMEs with new or innovative ideas for applications and services to address the lack of smart ICT tools suited for farm and wider agricultural use. New or existing applications should use FIWAREtechnologies (an innovative, open cloud-based infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of future internet applications and services) and ideally be delivered through the FIspace platform (an integrated collaboration system).
Projects are expected to address one or more of three representative farming subsectors:
- Arable Farming - large-scale, annual crop production in the open air
- Horticulture - flowers, fruits and vegetables production in greenhouses or, at a small scale, similar crops in the open air. In addition, orchards can be included.
- Livestock Farming – animal production in the open-air closed housing systems or a mix between these.
Projects are expected to provide smart solutions for specific farm operations or farm management activities. Projects may develop and implement new solutions or modify existing solutions towards use within the Future Internet framework.
€4 million in funding is available for SME’s and web entrepreneurs to develop a large number of smart agriculture services and applications. Grants of up to €100K are available which will be distributed over 3 stages:
Stage 1 Prototype development (Up to €40,000 in EU funding, 100% funded, no matched funding required)
Stage 2 End user trials (Up to €40,000 in EU funding funded at 75%; 25% matched funding required)
Stage 3 Business Development (Up to €20,000 in EU funding funded at 50%; 50% matched funding required).
SmartAgriFood has joined forces with the Europe-wide ICT-AGRI network to provide SMEs and web entrepreneurs with an additional €2M in funding to pay for expert advice and support services for the successful SMEs.
See: http://www.smartagrifood.com/

GS1 Global Registry® / GDSN
Share data with your supply chain trading partners via the Global Data Synchronisation Network (GDSN).
See: http://www.gs1.org/gdsn

Commentary: Today’s Farm Requires Access to Wireless Broadband - Jonathan Adelstein
Much of today’s agricultural equipment depends in a growing measure on access to wireless networks. Wireless broadband-powered farm equipment, along with laptops, tablets, and smart phones, are now as instrumental in the efficient management of a farm as rural electrification was in the past.
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/blog/today-s-farm-requires-access-wireless-broadband

John Deere Rolls out 2015 Updates
See : http://farmindustrynews.com/farm-equipment/john-deere-rolls-out-2015-updates

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Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit
Mick Harkin, ex Secretary of EFITA, who has kept us amused with his Friday Jokes over the years, has published a book on Amazon entitled "Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit".
See: http://www.jokesquotesandanecdotes.com
Contact: Mick HARKIN
E-mail: harkin(a)iol.ie

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