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Chapter 16: Practical experiences of IoT applications in the IoF2020 Dairy Trial
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The goal of the H2020 IoF2020 Large Scale Project (LSP) is to stimulate the uptake of Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions in the Agri-food sector and is founded on several major trials comprising multiple use cases. A use case, driven by a consortium of (SME) companies, research institutes and end users, defines, develops, tests, validates and showcases IoT solutions in a segment of the overall agri-food domain. One of the major segments is the dairy sector and associated trial comprises seven use cases developing minimal viable products (MVPs) for the dairy farming, evaluated in operational environments across Europe. The evaluation strategy centres not only on confirming the technical performance of the solution, but more importantly demonstrating the value of the solution to the business captured through specific KPI’s agreed by the community. Within a large-scale project such as IoF2020, all use cases co-operate and share both technical know-how and developments as well as best practices. The technical developments are supported by business and ecosystem work packages providing expertise, experience and new tools to accelerate the commercialisation of the innovation within each use case. The use cases within the dairy trial are an exemplar where the exchange of know-how and results has benefited each of the developments. The detail of the use cases, their inter-relationships and achievements are presented in the chapter.