Digital Agricultural

Digitalisation offers great potential in agriculture for achieving positive effects on the environment and animal welfare. With the aid of a variety of digital measurement methods and their networking, we develop and evaluate sensor-assisted assistance systems for agriculture with the focus on sustainably controlling agricultural processes.

Current projects

Transparency in Pig Production

Digital traceability and transparency along the pig value chain in the Oldenburger Münsterland region - Transparency in Pig Production

Zukunftlabor Agrar

The central aspects of the call for future laboratory are the questions of data management and interpretation, automation and autonomization of agricultural technologies and the legal framework in agricultural and food industry. Consequently the impact of digitization on the sustainability of agriculture will be analyzed.

Completed projects

DigiSchwein

Cross innovation and digitisation in animal-friendly pig farming, taking into account the protection of resources - "DigiSchwein" advise, qualify and promote

Automated data recording at livestock farming

Automated data recording at livestock farming enabels continuous online assessment of animal-related data, climate / environment data and construction data. To get an overview of the different systems on the market, a database is created, with which the systems are recorded and characterized in their functionality.

Indikators for animal welfare - Fattening pigs

Since February 2014, livestock farmers in Germany have a legal obligation to carry out an internal company audit. Legislation requires the collection and assessment of "suitable animal-related characteristics" (animal welfare indicators)" in this context in § 11 (8) of the animal welfare act. (TierSchG, 2006), without giving details of their content, size and frequency of collection.

Assistence Systems for Intelligent Cattle Husbandary - "CattleHub"

Digitalisation and automation are of increasing importance in modern cattle farming. The “CattleHub” experimental field is intended to support the interdisciplinary development and establishment of assistance systems for all cattle farming. For this reason, digital technologies and sensors are examined and evaluated in six experimental areas. The results will be used to improve decision-making and animal welfare when using digital assistance systems.

Networking and Transfer Project for Digitalization in Agriculture

The large number of research activities in the field of digitalization in agriculture initiated by the Federal Government within the last few years are evaluated in this project, involved researcher are networked with each other and the results are prepared, evaluated and published.

Automated Pig Localization in Pigsties

The current localization of pigs in pigsties can be done manually by animal observations, in a limited scope by RFID transponders or by video analysis, whereby the recognition of individual animals are problematic.