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SWAMP Represented at the FRUCT 24 Conference in Moscow

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A training day on SEPA (SPARQL Event Processing Architecture), a core element of the SWAMP platform, was held in Moscow (9-10 April 2019) during the FRUCT 24 conference (fruct.org) and the SWAMP project has been presented as a use case.

SWAMP members also presented a paper entitled “Mapping the NGSI-LD context model on top of a SPARQL Event Processing Architecture: implementation guidelines” which represents a first attempt to implement the NGSI-LD specification on top of SEPA. This would allow SEPA to become a FIWARE Generic Enabler, enhancing FIWARE with the Dynamic Linked Data support.

SWAMP and green economy: presentation of the project @Ecomondo 2018

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Saving, efficiency, and reuse: those are three keywords that describe the management of water resources in a “circular” perspective. In particular, the SWAMP project is focused on the first two and tries to provide smart solutions for water utilization in agriculture. These and other innovative technologies were discussed last Wednesday, November 7, 2018 during the seminar ” Efficient and sustainable management of water resources in agriculture” that was held at the Ecomondo fair in Rimini, Italy.

Now in its 23rd edition, ECOMONDO is the leading trade fair in the Euro-Mediterranean zone for all sectors involved in the circular economy. During the event, all the areas of the green economy are represented, from the recovery of materials and energy to sustainable development, and all the involved stakeholders take part: industries, start-ups, universities, ministries, and research institutions meet for a dialogue aimed at boosting innovation towards the efficient use of resources.

A whole pavilion is specially dedicated to water, the Global Water Expo, where a wide program of conferences explores the latest technologies and approaches for the best use of such resources in terms of efficiency in all sectors. Among these, the agricultural field stands out both from a quantitative and a qualitative point of view: according to the OECD, agriculture uses about 70% of the water withdrawn in the world today and also contributes to water pollution due to excess nutrients. pesticides and other pollutants. Moreover, in a short to medium-term scenario, the growing pressure from urbanization, industrialization and climate change will generate greater competition for the exploitation of water resources for the agricultural sector.

During the seminar “Efficient and sustainable management of water resources in agriculture” some research efforts from the last few years have been presented. All the exposed works try to address the problem by following two different approaches: the first one is based on the reuse of purified wastewater for irrigation to increase the availability of water resources; the second one aims at developing efficient irrigation systems for rational use of water. The SWAMP project is placed in this second strand: within this framework, the objectives of the project and the actions undertaken in the various pilots were shown, highlighting the specific needs of each area. Special emphasis was given to the Italian case study, to the possibilities offered by the IoT approach, and to the challenges faced with the integration of data from sensors and models in the platform.

The symposium was an opportunity to share experiences similar or complementary to SWAMP, and, the comparison with them can generate new ideas and improvements for the project.

SWAMP organizes Workshop on Advances in IoT based methods for Smart Water Distribution and Management in Agriculture

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Workshop on Advances in IoT based Methods for Smart
Water Distribution and Management in Agriculture

SWAMP is organizing a workshop at FRUCT23 ( www.fruct.org/program23 ), a conference on IoT and its applications, held for the first time in Italy and sponsored by IEEE ComSoc, by the Siberia and Italy sections of IEEE, and by Eurotech, a large Italian IoT company (Bologna, 14-16 Nov. 2018).

The Workshop is named Advances in IoT-based Methods for Smart Water Distribution and Management in Agriculture – IMSA18 and it is promoted through the ICT4Water EU cluster.

Workshop Program

On top of the 3 papers presented at the Workshop, SWAMP partners present at the main conference 2 short papers, 4 posters and one demo addressing  the first year project activities and focusing on the following topics:

  • Platforms and devices for smart agriculture
  • Drones in precision irrigation applications
  • Drone based automatic surveys for smart farming
  • SWAMP-UGA multi-parameter and multi-depth soil probe, this one in co-operation with the University of Georgia.

Posters and Demos

SWAMP present at WWRF 41

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SWAMP project was presented at Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) meeting 41 in Herning, Denmark at August 31. WWRF (www.wwrf.ch) is a global community that tackles research challenges in the wireless communication domain. Currently, 5G mobile system specification issue is the hottest topic. Recently, WWRF has started activities for developing virtual integration platforms (VIPs) for various domains. In the WWRF41 event, a special session was held in 5G and water management and SWAMP was one of the invited attendants.

Our presentation aimed at providing a user perspective and requirement perspective for mobile communication experts. Agriculture and irrigation water management have specific features that should also be taken into account in future mobile networks. Our pilots also highlight nicely different situations and conditions that also 5G has to face in the future.

The WWRF is a global community and discussion covered for example Japan, India, and Africa. It was very easy to see that water is a global issue.

SWAMP contribution to the ICT4Water Cluster and WssTP digital working group

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The SWAMP project took part in the joint ICT4Water Cluster and WssTP digital working group meeting collocated with the Water Innovation Europe 2018 (WIE2018) in Brussels on 13th and 14th of June 2018. The contribution of the SWAMP project to the action plan drawn up by the ICT4Water Cluster was presented during the meeting, showing good progress towards the targets mainly in the area of Smart Water.

Details about the event are available in:

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WIE2018 WssTP Ict4Water Cluster

SWAMP engages with the world IoT Community at IoT Week 2018 and GIoT’s18

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The SWAMP project actively participated in the collocated events IoT Week 2018 and the Global IoT Summit 2018 (GIoTS’18), held in Bilbao, Spain on June 4th and 7th, 2018. The participation of SWAMP was in three different moments. Firstly, the paper “SWAMP: an IoT-based Smart Water Management Platform for Precision Irrigation in Agriculture” was presented in the GIoTS’18 session IoT Applications, Services I on June 5th.

Secondly, SWAMP participated in the panel CREATE-IoT EU-Brazil collaboration on IoT for Sustainable Development, aimed at presenting the 3 new EU-Brazil IoT Pilots’ projects (OCARIoT, SWAMP, FASTEN) and discussing research/development/piloting approaches, difficulties, and collaborations (between the 3 projects, with the EU IoT LSP initiative).

Thirdly, the Brazilian IoT Forum had a stand as an exhibitor at the IoT Week 2018, where a TV continuously displayed a video that represented the activities of different members of the Brazilian IoT community at this event. A SWAMP slideshow was added to this video and therefore was played during the whole event.

SWAMP takes part in the 19 th RNP Workshop (WRNP 2018)

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The SWAMP project actively engaged in the 19 th RNP Workshop that took place in Campos de Jordão during May 7th and 8th. Campos do Jordão is a popular winter touristic place, situated in the Mantiqueira Mountains at 1,628 meters (5,341 ft) above sea level and is the highest city in Brazil.

The Brazilian National Research and Educational Network (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa – RNP) provides access to the Internet and other services to a myriad of academic and research institutions in Brazil. Also, it funds R&D projects aimed at putting forward the current state of the art and practice in computer networking and distributed systems. Since 1999, RNP has organized an annual workshop to bring together its target public to the newest technological advancements and research and development hot topics in ICT.

SWAMP, like dozens of other collaborative projects, had a booth at the lobby area of the Campos do Jordão Convention Center. Also, SWAMP participated in a panel aimed at discussing the Brazil & EU cooperation in ICT (http://video.rnp.br/portal/video.action?idItem=42100&idVideoVersion=40979). All six projects selected in the 6 th joint call had a representative member in the panel. Overall, it was an excellent opportunity for communicating the project goals and challenges, as well as an opportunity for clustering activities with similar projects.

SWAMP participates in clustering activity promoted by EUBrasilCloudFORUM

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The SWAMP project was represented in the EUBrasilCloudFORUM Concertation Meeting, held in Brasília (Brazil) on April 18th 2018. The purpose of the meeting was to jointly form a plan of action with EU-BR projects from the 3rd and 4th collaborative calls, to collaborate on the future priorities for EU-BR research landscape in ICT. Prof. João Henrique Kleinschmidt from UFABC presented the objectives, pilots and work in progress of the SWAMP project. All the invited projects discussed on how the project’s technical work and cross-border demonstrations will address/have addressed issues such as personal data protection, flows of data, portability of data, etc. The projects also provided recommendations for further actions either in research or policy.

EUBrasilCloudFORUM has been funded by the EC and MCTI to support the EU-BR collaborative projects in the collection and promotion of their results and activities. The project is responsible to facilitate the establishment of an organizational cooperation model that enables the EU and Brazil to formulate and develop a common strategy and approach for research and innovation in cloud computing. The consortium prepared the EUBrasilCloudFORUM Research Roadmap, a report that analyses and identifies the gaps and research opportunities related to cloud computing, and also to propose future research topics for the EU-BR collaboration in related areas. This Research Roadmap was presented at the Concertation Meeting, along with the Online Marketplace of relevant ICT assets to support transatlantic collaboration.

SWAMP presented at FAUBAI 2018

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The SWAMP project was presented at FAUBAI 2018 (faubai.org.br/conf/2018), the Annual Conference of the Brazilian Association for International Education.
The oral presentation was titled “Research Cooperation between Brazil and Europe in ICT: Experience with Joint Calls” and SWAMP was highlighted as an example of an EU-BR collaboration research project selected in the 4th joint call.

Brazil and Europe have been launching coordinated calls for the development of collaborative research projects in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), focusing on topics such as Future Internet, Cloud Computing, Smart Cities, Big Data, 5G Networks and Internet of Things. Since 2010, four coordinated calls have been launched resulting in 193 proposals submitted involving hundreds of institutions (universities, research institutes, companies, and government agencies) on both continents. From those proposals, 20 were selected, and each party funded 25 million euros. In Brazil, these proposals are funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Communications (MCTIC) and run by RNP (the National Network of Research and Education), having the European Commission as its counterpart in Europe. The four calls were launched in 2010 (goo.gl/fpThxm), 2012 (goo.gl/XMTCfi), 2014 (goo.gl/ss4pmL) and 2016 (goo.gl/B6DVxK). Currently, projects selected in the first and second calls are already finished, projects selected in the third call are in progress and projects selected in the four calls started in the end of 2017. The outcomes in terms of research contributions and increased collaboration
between Brazil and Europe have been positively assessed and therefore a fifth call is already being planned.

Carlos Kamienski interviewed by RNP about EU-BR joint calls

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Prof. Carlos Kamienski, the Brazilian coordinator of the SWAMP Project, gives an interview to RNP during the EU-BR cooperation Workshop held in Brasilia in December 2017. He talks about the challenges faced by researchers who are willing to submit a proposal to a future EU-BR joint call (in Portuguese, with English subtitles).