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Project Code [23/NCF/FF/11791]
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Project title
Agri-Immanence: A generative AI/IoT enabled digital agronomy advisor for sustainability transitions of covered horti-food production systems
Primary Funding Agency
Science Foundation Ireland
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
Lead Organisation
University of Galway
Lead Applicant
Not listed
Project Abstract
Humanity's agrifood supply systems are challenged by climate change & other rapidly emerging sustainability challenges. Covered crop greenhouse horticulture provides almost one fifth of the world's food but needs to increase its yields while reducing its environmental footprint. The millions of greenhouse horticulture growers worldwide lack access to the training, knowledge and real-time decision-supports to locally optimise their growing environments for sustainability transitions. The inter-disciplinary Agri-Immanence project will develop a digital agronomy advisor for sustainability transitions of covered horti-food production systems that is informed by real-time Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data combined with domain-speciic generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) that puts all available published knowledge for growing crops in covered horticultural systems in the hands of each grower. This disruptive innovation which is globally scalable will enable context/local specific data to be combined with domain-specific knowledge in a manner that empowers and dramatically upskills the world's horticultural crop growers to bridge the yield gaps that their livelihoods and future food security and sustainability depends on. As the Agri-Immanence project builds from the IoT-enabled GreenGro container farm minimal viable prototype and is driven by an inter-disciplinary team who are already working together, the project will deliver accelerated outcomes and impacts.
Grant Approved
�323,102.00
Research Hub
Climate Change
Research Theme
3. Climate Solutions, Transition Management and Opportunities
Initial Projected Completion Date
28/02/2025