Hafenstrom has partnered up with 21 organisations and institutions in the EU-funded project “SPADE”. The name is an acronym for “multi-purpoSe Physical-cyber Agri-forest Drones Ecosystem for governance and environmental observation”.
SPADE is investigating the potential benefits of UAVs contributing to multiple field operations and processes and promote sustainable digital services in various types of sectors. Part of the developments within the SPADE ecosystem involves the deployment of UAV formations equipped with edge computing devices for direct applications in livestock management such as detecting focused risks.
The Objective
3 European Initative were created, CHAMELEON, SPADE and ICAERUS focused on advancing drone technologies across diverse sectors. These projects support the growing global adoption of drones for applications such as agricultural monitoring, livestock management, and forestry assessment. To share their progress, they recently participated in a webinar designed to showcase the
technological advancements and innovative solutions made possible by drone-based systems.
CHAMELEON, SPADE and ICAERUS are three projects that were funded under HORIZON – CL6-2021-01-21 in the category of “Potential of drones as multi-purpose vehicle”. Therefore a synergy was found and carried out by the three projects that aims to help each other, find solutions to future problems, ensure effcient dissemination and worthwhile opportunities and simultaneously create knowledge that together with the developed solutions will transform the present situation in areas and fields that each of the projects is focusing and working on
The expected results from this collaboration are:
- Sharing knowledge on using drones in rural areas
- Identifying new opportunities in the area of digital agroforestry services
- Bring awareness of the value of using drones in agriculture, forestry and livestock
monitoring
The Spade
SPADE aims to create a smart drone ecosystem for agriculture, forestry and livestock farming focusing on sustainability, cost-efective drones, open data ecosystem, pilot deployment and knowledge sharing.
The SPADE Livestock Prototype is designed to deliver fully integrable open modules, facilitating seamless interaction with both SPADE and proprietary UAV systems, as well as proprietary wearable sensing devices.
Thus SPADE addresses:
- SPADE UAVs & SPADE sensing devices
- Commercial UAVs & commercial sensing devices