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Embedded ICT technology on sprayers in order to reduce water pollution; the Aware project

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Various routes exist to reduce water pollution due to pesticide spray drift: decision aid systems for spraying when necessary, a better tuning of sprayers and more precise spraying combinations involving a sprayer and its nozzles, an active matter and an adjuvant. In the European project Aware, supported by a LIFE Environment program, the interest of ICT technologies is demonstrated at the different stages of the spraying process: before, during and after spraying. The traceability system developed in the aware project collects data about the spraying process and the environmental conditions. The recorded data are (i) on the spraying parameter side: the level in the tank, the right and left flows, the position using a GPS, and (ii) on the environmental side: the temperature, the wind speed and direction, the air moisture. These data are continuously displayed on the screen of a viewer. Before spraying the right and left flow measurements are used to help the farmers to tune his sprayer. During the spraying, it helps him into checking that no nozzle is obstructed and that the tank level is compatible to the work still to be done. After the spraying, it allows to view the maps of applied products and therefore to detect any over or under spraying. The data can also be used to build up the spraying traceability forms, which are compulsory in Europe. This system has been successfully tested during 2 years on 14 sprayers of vine growers in Montpellier region (South of France). In parallel, these technologies are used to monitor the spraying practices and to make relationships with pollution recorded in river basins. The aim of this paper is to describe the overall results of this project which ends up in January 2009.
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V. de Rudnicki, B. Ruelle, M. Douchin, Véronique Bellon Maurel. Embedded ICT technology on sprayers in order to reduce water pollution; the Aware project. FRUTIC 09, 8th Fruit Nut and Vegetable Production Engineering Symposium, Jan 2009, Concepcion, Chile. 8 p. ⟨hal-00468879⟩
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