Recent News
SWAMP Papers – Journals & Conferences
In addition to managing four pilots and creating the SWAMP Platform, the SWAMP members contributed significantly with the generation of…Read More »
SWAMP Newsletter #2 Released – Message from the Coordinators
We have the pleasure to release the second SWAMP Newsletter, to spread the word about the latest developments. The SWAMP…Read More »
Optimal water-need estimation and irrigation scheduling significantly reduce the use of water in agriculture: insights from the SWAMP Italian (Reggio-Emilia) pilot
The objective of the SWAMP Italian pilot was the development and test IoT solutions for precise water-need estimation and optimal…Read More »
Update on Communication, Dissemination, and Exploitation Activities
Dissemination Activities Dissemination for SWAMP means the spreading of technical and scientific knowledge generated within a project, is essential…Read More »
MATOPIBA Pilot: Expected Field Work and Simulations
The fieldwork required for keeping the MATOPIBA pilot up and running was affected by the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. We kept…Read More »
Precision irrigation based on soil moisture awareness gives 25% water saving potential – SWAMP Cartagena pilot completed
SWAMP Cartagena pilot focused on optimising irrigation water consumption when growing baby-leaf spinach in semi-arid area close to Cartagena, Spain.…Read More »
VAIMEE Italian start-up aims to exploit SWAMP results
In February 2020, early before the Italian lockdown, the VAIMEE start-up has been founded. VAIMEE is going to become an…Read More »
SWAMP paper receives best paper award from IEEE MetroAgriFor 2020
A group of SWAMP researchers received the best paper award in the MetroAgriFor conference, held online from 4 to 6…Read More »
SWAMP Paper: A Fuzzy Irrigation Control System
The SWAMP project published a paper in the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC 2020), reporting experience with fuzzy logic…Read More »
The SWAMP project will develop a high-precision smart irrigation system concept for agriculture depicted in Figure 1. The main idea is to enable the optimisations of irrigation, water distribution and consumption based on a holistic analysis that collects information from all aspects of the system including even the natural water cycle and the cumulated knowledge related to growing particular plants. It results to savings to all parties as it detects all the leakages and losses and guarantees better the availability of water in situations where water supply is limited.
The SWAMP platform will provide mechanisms for data acquisition from heterogeneous sensors, decision making using a variety of different techniques and changing system behaviour by sending commands to actuators. For Water Consumption (W3) the SWAMP platform will provide real time responses for adapting irrigation as the environment conditions changes. On the other hand, as changes in water distribution are performed in a different timescale, the management loop for W2 will be longer. Also, and not less important, is the integration of W2 and W3 management systems, as water usage triggers water distribution.
