TICS4FRUIT Operational Group: INNOVATIVE PROJECT ON 'ETICS Design to Optimize the Post-Harvest and Fruit Distribution Chain'
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2019 -2021
- Assigned Budget 551.174,51 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Aragón; Comunitat Valenciana; Madrid, Comunidad de
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website http://tics4fruit.com/
Description
The GO addresses the 4.0 management of the entire fruit value chain, from harvesting to the point of sale, through digitalization and the application of ICTs in order to maintain the initial quality and reduce losses. The technological leap p
Objectives
- Identification of the critical processes and logistics activities in the chain that register the most product losses and their quantification
- Definition of the environmental parameters to be controlled and critical ranges or limits for each type of fruit
- Development of different freshness indicators for the incorporation of smart labels on containers and packaging or other surfaces
- Design of storage, transportation, and distribution operations that optimize stocks and reduce costs, consumption, and product losses.
- Development of different technological solutions that allow monitoring of the most critical stages that influence product quality, as well as the 4.0 management of logistics processes.
Results
- Identification of the most influential stages in quality loss, quantification of the losses originating in each stage and definition of the determining factors based on the type of fruit
- Selection of data acquisition devices for shocks, temperature, humidity and gases
- Definition of the ranges to be controlled during each stage and for each type of fruit
- Detection and identification of fruit deterioration metabolites in response to different stress situations
- Data on cost savings and product losses after the implementation of the new proposed model
- App capable of analyzing various indicators and deciding their useful life/associated parameters, devices capable of acquiring data and communicating it via GPRS/4G and data centralization and analysis platform
Contact information
- Coordinator/entity name: ITENE
- Coordinator/entity email: marta.canete@itene.com
Collaborators
- SAN LUCAR FRUIT SL
Beneficiaries
- ITENE
- GEEZAR Soluciones SL
- Universidad de Zaragoza
- MERCASA
- FEPEX
- PCTAD
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