DigiCompost (2023): Digitalising organic compost manufacturing
DigiCompost is an Innovation project funded under the Open Call of the H2020 DIH-World project, aiming at helping Agroecology Lab company (AgLab) in digitalising its organic compost production, enabling the digital transformation of the company, while supporting the sustainable transition of the agricultural sector as a whole. GreenSupplyChain will support an Innovative Experiment (IE) focused on co-designing, deploying and testing a solution that will digitise the overall production process, offering extensive supervision, control and optimisation over it along with prediction capabilities on the compost’s nutrients and time of completion. Organic compost is a natural, nutrient-dense, cost-efficient alternative which supports soil regeneration and stabilises organic matter. In Greece and many other countries in the region, due to cost limitations and/or lack of digital skills, the manufacturing of compost, which is taking place in open space using of piles (no composting bins used), is mainly manual. This includes both a) the monitoring of the compost conditions, which is limited to manual daily checks of the pile’s temperature, but also the decision making and management process, including compost irrigation and stirring activities. See our press release about the success of the Innovation Experiment here!
