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Collaborative research projects

Some of what a chain needs does not exist as a product yet. We take those questions into collaborative research with partners, growers and public co-funding.

Why we do this

Why we take part in consortium projects

Interoperability cannot be solved by one vendor, because the problem is that more than one party is involved. The work has to happen with the other parties in the room.

A quality inspector holds a glass jar of preserved beans up to the light in a warehouse, a tablet in his other hand and trays of filled jars in front of him.
The interesting questions sit at the joins. By the time a crop is in a jar with a label on it, it has crossed six or seven organisations. Almost everything we take into a project is a question about one of those crossings.
Status
Running
Period
2026 – 2029
Partners
AgroWizard, AIgro, Boomkwekerij Udenhout
Funding
EFRO · OPZuid 2021–2027

De Stamhouder — AgroBots 3

Tree nurseries measure trunk diameter by hand, one tree at a time. Within AgroBots 3, vision technology and an autonomous vehicle do it automatically — which only helps if the reading reaches the right tree and the stock system.

The question it answers: what has to travel with a measurement for it to still mean something in the grower's own systems, months later?

See the De Stamhouder project page

Status
Running
Partners
Kuijpers Kip Research Field, HAS University of Applied Sciences
Funding
Co-funded by the European Union

Digital Vital Poultry Chain

A poultry chain is four businesses — parent stock farm, hatchery, broiler farm, processor — each with its own records, so comparing what an intervention did means reading across all four. The project runs a DataLab for exactly that.

The question it answers: what does it take to compare two production rounds across four companies and still trust the comparison?

See the Digital Vital Poultry Chain project page

Working with us

What we are useful for in a consortium

The boundary between partners

Most consortia have the domain expertise covered and struggle at the seams between organisations. That seam is our subject.

A running system, not a deliverable

We bring a working platform to build on, so the pilot is a real chain carrying real data rather than a demonstrator built for the final report.

A route to production

Where results hold up, they become part of a product other chains can use — which is usually what a funder wanted in the first place.

Next step

Building a consortium?

If you are putting a proposal together and the hard part is getting data across organisational boundaries, that is the part we are for. Tell us the chain and the deadline.

Book a 15-minute call Email us
1
A short callThe chain, the partners, the call you are applying to.
2
Scope our partWhat we would own, and what we would not.
3
Text and budgetA work package description you can drop into the proposal.