Project: Innovative greenhouse support system in the mediterranean region: efficient fertigation and pest management through IoT based climate control

Acronym	iGUESS-MED
Project Topic	The iGUESS-MED proposal aims to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) able to effectively manage fertigation and prevent plant diseases and pests in tomato crops grown in soil and soilless in commercial greenhouses of the Mediterranean region. This innovative greenhouse DSS will be developed to (i) help greenhouse farmers to improve the management of fertigation in areas with low (saline) quality waters (ii) to reduce the use of chemicals by a sustainable and integrated pest and disease control and (iii) to improve the climatic efficiency in the existent greenhouse by low-cost climate actions. The DSS will allow obtaining healthier and higher quality productions and higher yields, while will reduce the use of water and the losses of nutrients and chemicals to the environment. iGUESS-MED will be able to manage efficient fertigation, to forecast diseases and pests, and to improve the climatic efficiency in tomato greenhouses, using only climate data acquisition and basic information on cropping system. The DSS will provide feedbacks and alerts about crop needs and real time recommendations to the farmers through friendly portable real time data visualization tools as PC, tablets or smartphones. To achieve this objective, new models for calculating crop evapotranspiration will be performed by integrating sensor data from plant, soil and climate, and forecasting models for assessing disease and pest risks will be developed by using the Integrated Pest Management. The project consortium (research centers, SMEs and end-users of EU and non-EU countries belonging to the Mediterranean basin) will collaborate from the beginning to make the DSS marketable involving, end-users and stakeholders to validate the system in own greenhouses, reducing gaps between research, application developers and farmers. The application of DSS will benefit the workers and the consumers, providing better working conditions, crop healthiness and reduction of environmental impact.
Network	PRIMA
Call	Section 1 Call 2019 - Farming Systems (Innovation Action)

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Analisi dell'Economia Agraria, CREA	Coordinator	Italy
2	Università di PIsa, UNIPI	Partner	Italy
3	Bioplanet s.c.a., BIOPLANET	Partner	Italy
4	EVJA s.r.l., EVJA	Partner	Italy
5	Universidad de Almeria	Partner	Spain
6	Fundacion Cajamar, CAJAMAR	Partner	Spain
7	GRUPO LA CAÑA, S.L., La Caña	Partner	Spain
8	Regional Research Centre in Horticulture and Organic Agriculture, CRRHAB ; Tunisie	Partner	Tunisia
9	Akdeniz University	Partner	Türkiye