Sensor Assisted Alpine Milk Production
Dairy farming is a traditional business sector of the Alpine Space, adapted to its specific framework patterns: mountain pastures with topography that demand robust & healthy animals & limited, scattered space. Alpine Dairy farming relies on SME, mostly family farms. Due to agro-industrial competitors, traditional farms face structural problems to keep up with modern, IT-based quality control. Although farms are integrated in networks of milk recording organisations & procedures, they lack capacities & custom-fit IT-approaches to comply with principles of the green economy, e.g. a stronger focus on animal wellbeing & product quality. SESAM aims at introducing an innovative IT-sensor based framework for innovative decision-support, tailored to small farm (SME) needs, that enables them to improve competitiveness, animal wellbeing, decrease calf-loss through real-time monitoring while preserving the traditional & culturally relevant role in the regional socioeconomic structure._x000D_
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SESAM will work via the transnational existing partner network of milk recording organisations (reaching out to 80.000 farms & more than 3 M cows), in cooperation with key research organisations & farms themselves & implement an Alpine wide solution through pilots & market roll out. The sensor systems will meet farmer&#39;s needs: easy-to-use & cost-efficient. The SESAM system will be open, integrative, connected to existing recording data/monitoring procedures._x000D_
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As a transnational result, the entire Alpine dairy milk production will be provided with a highly accessible, innovative IT-tool, fully embedded in the existing network of milk quality & animal health monitoring. Competitiveness & job security, following green economy principle, will be improved while safeguarding traditional farming methods._x000D_
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Transnational policy take up will be realised through cooperation with Alpine Convention, EUSALP AG 2 & 27 (policy) observers._x000D_
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Budget 2,3M.