AgrarIA, a project in which KIVNON participates, has reached an agreement with AWS as a technology partner.

The AgrarIA Project was created to drive digital innovation in the Spanish agri-food sector through cloud services. This strategic initiative aims to accelerate the digital transformation of the agri-food supply chain using a technological platform based onAmazon Web Services (AWS)to implement initiatives that improve services for users and define new methods of agricultural production.

The AgrarIA project involves research into the development of a platform based on AWS artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things, and data analytics services—such as AWS IoT Core, Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon Athena, among others—that integrates all the necessary models and components of the agricultural value chain: production, processing, and distribution. This platform will enable the definition of process flows that are integrated with the technologies necessary for their development, as well as other digital enabling technologies, to deploy unique initiatives or specific use cases that promote a rapid, efficient, productive, and sustainable medium-term transformation of the sector.

Examples of the project’s objectives include the development of new natural products for pest and disease control, the application of digital twins to refrigeration or photovoltaic plants (to improve energy efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint), the intelligent and global management of large agricultural plots, the development of autonomous robotics where the robot’s brain is in the cloud and interacts via 5G (Cloud Robotics), and research using quantum computing in the management of satellite images to optimize agricultural production.

In the words of Miguel Hormigo, GMV’s Industry Sector Manager, “the use of AWS services in the AgrarIA project will provide us with the most advanced artificial intelligence technologies to accelerate progress in research into their application to the agricultural sector. This will enable us to achieve better results in the complex use cases envisioned by the project so that, in the near future, we will have at our disposal groundbreaking new solutions and products that will spearhead the digital transformation of the sector, ensuring that Spain remains a global benchmark in productivity, competitiveness, interoperability, and sustainability.”