The new issue of the ERCIM news magazine features a special theme dedicated to “Smart Farming”, collecting articles about current tendencies in precision agriculture. The thematic issue covers several technological innovations for agriculture, from IoT to 3D cameras, from remote sensing to cloud computing. Drone swarms could not be missing from this picture! Find the […]

The project SAGA continues to raise the interests in the stakeholders and in the general public. Several press articles have been released recently, and more are expected in the near future, following the contacts received from specialised press. An interview to Vito Trianni has been published recently on the Horizon Magazine, a webzine that reports […]

After Confagricoltura, another important farmers’ organisation joins the list of stakeholders supporting the SAGA project. ZLTO is the Dutch Southern Agriculture and Horticulture Organisation, and represents more than fifteen thousands farmers and growers from the South-Netherlands region. Together with them, ZLTO works to produce healer food innovatively and sustainably. For these reasons, they decided to […]

On April the 21st, Vito Trianni travelled to Milan to give a seminar on swarm robotics for agricultural applications at TechnologyHub, a business-to-business fair dedicated to novel technologies that will soon have a large impact on the market and in the society. Technology Hub is the Italian event that matches experts and companies with new […]

We have developed an efficient collaborative weed monitoring system by drone swarms, which is robust and scalable. In this video, a swarm of simulated drones searches for weeds in a crop field. The field is virtually divided in cells, and each cell may be occupied by weeds (grey level indicates weed density) and/or crops (green). […]

The SAGA project is very happy to announce the endorsement received from Confagricoltura, which supports the project activities and offers consulting services for the assessment of the project results and acceptability from farmers. Together with Confagricoltura, the SAGA consortium will survey the potential end users, hence gathering useful information for the economical assessment of the […]

SAGA will be presented at the forthcoming Maker Fair held in Rome from October 14th to 16th (http://www.makerfairerome.eu). The Maker Faier Rome European Edition, is the biggest european event of the Maker movement, and it gathers together about 700 innovative projects that push the limits of current technological trends. SAGA will be displayed within the […]