​European agriculture still lacks a common repository where data generated by IoT devices can be stored by equipment and production systems.​ Players already use their own proprietary data spaces, leveraging data for decision-making, quality control and monitoring of the production chain. However, these solutions are not interoperable, forcing users to adopt a variety of different systems.​

DEMETER adopts a human-in-the-loop model that combines human knowledge and expertise with digital information, it focuses on interoperability thanks to Digital Enabler, and employs a variety of technologies: IoT, Earth Observation, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence.​ The DEMETER solution is being demonstrated through 20 pilot projects on more than 5700 farms across Europe, covering a wide spectrum of sub-sectors: arable crops, irrigated crops, fruit production, livestock. In particular, as part of a pilot project in the dairy value chain, we are implementing a decision support system that provides farmers with an integrated view of animal welfare and suggests corrective actions. Including a blockchain-based traceability system that collects data across the supply chain, from production to labelling of the final product.