Project approved in the AEI 2022a aid line.
Project description and objectives:
The cultivation of the black truffle constitutes a new source of resources, with a growing economic and social importance, especially in depopulated Spain. The holm oak plots are mostly located in areas with low rainfall and degraded soils, so irrigation is a basic task, given the current context of low rainfall. Knowledge of the physiological state of the holm oak in response to water stress is perceived as a value proposition to establish the need for irrigation in truffle plantations, optimizing truffle production in terms of quantity and quality parameters. For this, IoT digital technologies, sensors, Cloud and Machine Learning (all of them applied in WATERRUF) play a fundamental role, since they allow the end user to monitor and know in real time the water status of the plantation.
WATERTRUF aims to optimize irrigation management in truffle oak plantations, through the combined use of new non-destructive digital technologies that allow continuous monitoring and real-time monitoring of the physiological state of the tree, in order to have sufficient information to the development of intelligent algorithms that generate irrigation recommendations.
The WATERTRUF project is included in the framework of aid for AEIS Innovative Business Associations 2022. The consortium is led by the Cluster for the Efficient Use of Water (ZINNAE) with the participation of the Aragonese Food Cluster (ARAGON INNOVALIMEN), the Research Center and Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón (CITA) and the companies MYTRUFF S.L., ARATECK ELECTRONICS S.L.
