Integration with existing services Sample Clauses

Integration with existing services. For the needs of the LIFE GAIA Sense project, a set of additional, existing services will be configured appropriately in order to be utilized and integrated with the newly developed applications. These services are: The reports issued by this application help the producer monitor the crop and evaluate the results from previous years. It also allows correlations between, specific cultivation practices or inputs and the product produced (quantity and quality product). Apart from monitoring, ICM is a very powerful tool for drawing conclusions about the agricultural practices and products used (fertilizers, water etc) as well as for decision-making regarding the optimization of the economic result. The agronomists who have access to the required information over the internet, are given the opportunity to have the overview of the parcels and provide instructions according to the Regulatory Requirements as well as the requirements of the Quality Systems very efficiently. In this way, full and continuous monitoring of the Quality Systems is achieved by recording all processes and minimizing the time spent by the visiting agronomist on field visits and observations. The existing version of the iCM system, developed by NP, was only capable to handle information originating from agricultural fields located in the geographical area of Greece. Given that the LIFE GAIA Sense pilot fields are also located outside Greece (Portugal and Spain) it was necessary to implement additional software modules and translations in order to make the iCM available to non-Greek agronomists and farmers. The application called “Field Collect” is an innovative tool useful for farm advisors and producers. It was implemented with the purpose of detailed planning and control of the trapping process but also of monitoring the population and insect spreading within a crop. Growers have the ability to record the entomological attack directly on the field with the help of a smartphone and exploiting this data to control effectively the damage caused by plant’s enemies while reducing the amount of pesticides released on the ground. An additional menu of the application is the recording of the phenological phase of crop at the time of insitu control. Furthermore, Field Collect has been integrated with the recording of soil samples taken from points within the field, as well as with irrigation measurements.