Abstract of the project
In 2018, Italy contributed 13,5% of the value added of the European Union's blue economy, placing it behind Spain (18,8%) and Germany (16,8%). As regards the labor market, Italy represented 11,8% of the so-called "Blue jobs", ranking fourth in Europe, after Spain (20,7%), Greece (12,8%) and Germany (11,9%). The marine ecosystem is not adequately safeguarded today. Although there are regulatory instruments that have this objective, the absence of effective continuous and permanent monitoring tools reduces their effects. The main objective is the use of Earth Observation (EO) data and other types of data (e.g. drone acquisitions, environmental measurements, meteorological-marine data, and site-specific data) for the development of a technological platform for the production of services for monitoring the coastal area in both dune and marine areas.
1. reduce monitoring costs. Data from space missions with a ten-year history are available completely free of charge;
2. carry out permanent and global monitoring. Space technologies make it possible to monitor practically all maritime areas of the globe and their availability over time allows continuous monitoring (GNSS data) or with a high frequency of revisiting (OT technologies).
In particular, three will be created:
1. S1. Monitoring of biologically closed areas closed to fishing;
2. S2. Tracing of fishing and certification of areas of origin;
3. S3. Monitoring and protection of the marine and coastal environment.
Below is the structure of the project in all the WPs:
• WP 1 – Management
• WP 2 – Recognition of the state of the art and definition of specific platforms and services
• WP 3 – Design and development of the prototype of the service delivery platform
• WP 4 – Design and development of the prototype of the S1 service
• WP 5 – Design and development of the prototype of the S2 service relating to the system for "collection of fishing data and their marketing to production".
• WP6 - Design and development of the prototype of the S3 service relating to the "monitoring and protection of the marine and coastal environment" system
• WP 7 – Integration of systems and services, through the Blockchain supply chain platform.
• WP 8 – Testing of services
• WP9 - Dissemination.
1. reduce monitoring costs (in fact, data from space missions with a ten-year history are available completely free of charge);
2. carry out permanent and global monitoring. Space technologies make it possible to monitor practically all maritime areas of the globe and their availability over time allows continuous monitoring (GNSS data) or with a high frequency of revisiting (OT technologies).
The S2S monitoring platform will be designed so that it can be integrated with a growing number of services dedicated to the sea and aimed at providing useful information to all potential stakeholders, the largest of which are:
● fish supply chain;
● tourism supply chain;
● planning bodies and those responsible for environmental protection;
● to the citizen so that he is informed about the state of the sea and its resources.
The platform will use Blockchain technology as a tool for sharing and certifying the information detected in monitoring activities, both quantitative and qualitative. The objective of the project is the experimentation of an agri-food supply chain, through the definition of an approach model to the needs of the two identified supply chains which, through the collection of data relating to the product and environmental parameters with the use of existing devices and/or or prepared for this purpose, starting from the production phase and throughout the supply chain that reaches the final consumer, allow the efficiency of the supply chains and the improvement of the agri-food products in question.
The platform will be designed and tested according to the Digital Twin (DT) paradigms and designed to integrate vertical services within it that use DT data for analysis and simulations.
INFOTEAM SRL, Italy
CNR - IIA
IIA Institutional Headquarters in Montelibretti (RM):
Mei Alessandro,
Santoro Serena,
Fontinovo Giuliano,
Moscow Silvia,
Rantica Elena,
Guerriero Ettore,
Paolini Valerio,
Zampetti Emiliano,
Macagnano Antonella
IIA branch office in Bari:
Adamo Maria,
Rana Fabio Michele,
Maggi Sabino