Resilience Cloud for Goat (RC4GOAT) Operational Group: Improving the Resilience of the Andalusian Dairy Goat through the Creation of a Federated Data Cloud Platform

This project aims to advance the automation of the collection and analysis of technical, economic, and environmental information related to the operation of goat farms, in order to optimize their management and real-time decision-making, contribute to their resilience, and develop future predictions for the goat sector based on reliable data. The data collection strategy, software specifications, and the selection of relevant technical, economic, and environmental indicators will be developed jointly, leading to the subsequent design and development of the federated data platform.

This platform will be tested under real-life farm conditions to verify that the indicators developed by the operational group are useful to farmers, thereby contributing to increasing the efficiency of goat dairy production, optimizing resources, and reducing the environmental impact of livestock farming. Expected results include the digitization of data processing to move toward real-time decision-making based on big data. Additionally, the generation of the selected indicators is expected to facilitate decision-making at both the farm and sector levels, in the latter case using aggregated information. This project could serve as a path forward in the use of digital platforms for data collection, processing, and analysis, thereby bringing transparency to the sector and improving decision-making capacity at all levels.