PRIMA INTEL-IRRIS (June 1st, 2021 – May 31st, 2024) is one of my flagship projects that I coordinated where a fully autonomous sensing system for optimizing irrigation was developed in collaboration with soil specialists, agronomists, farmers and agricultural advisors. The main targets are smallholder farmers and a starter kit was developed, tested and deployed in several piloting farms in Algeria and Morocco. A dedicated GitHub repository hosts all the software & hardware developments for the sensing platform. For UPPA, INTEL-IRRIS leverages all the experience and lessons learned from FP7 EAR-IT (microcontrollers, embedded software control) and H2020 WAZIUP (energy-efficiency, robust design, LoRa transmissions). I’m proud that INTEL-IRRIS was selected among the very high potential projects invited to participate in the 1st Euro Mediterranean Innovation Market Place that took place on Oct. 3rd, 2024 in Cairo, Egypt!
Beyond technology, capacity-building was an important contribution: training events, hackathons and many step-by-step tutorials have been produced during the project. It was again an exciting transdisciplinary project where we worked with soil specialist and agronomist.
