SWAMP - Smart Water Management Platform

The primary objective of the SWAMP (Smart Water Management Platform) project is to develop IoT (Internet of Things) based methods and approaches for smart water management in precision irrigation domain and to pilot the approaches in four places, two pilots in Europe (Italy and Spain) and two pilots in Brazil. The key challenges faced by SWAMP are: • Automating advanced platforms and integrating different technologies and solutions; • Reducing effort in software development by exploiting IoT, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence; • Integrating heterogeneous sensors (also drones) for precision irrigation; • Providing flexibility and adaptability to different contexts and locations. SWAMP aims at improving precision irrigation by increasing the awareness of the condition of the crop, by monitoring the field based on crop status (size, growing phase) and environment (e.g., weather forecast) and to adjust the irrigation prescription map accordingly. The smart water management pilots aim at guaranteeing that technological components are flexible enough to adapt to different contexts and to be replicable in different locations and settings. The same underlying SWAMP platform can be customized to different pilots considering different countries, climate, soil, and crops.