SIWI®: The automated hitch system transforming agriculture

SIWI®: The automated hitch system transforming agriculture

The SIWI® automated hitch system is poised to revolutionise agriculture in Europe by boosting productivity and promoting safety on farms. Steen N Jensen explains...
The current plan of the ‘smart city’ network of SMURBS. Box border colours: pilot cities (black)

Smart cities – the SMURBS project

Dr Evangelos Gerasopoulos introduces the SMURBS project, which harnesses Earth observation in the service of ‘SMart URBan Solutions for air quality, disasters and city...
The EcoBerries project

The EcoBerries project

Europe needs sustainable and profitable value chains for organic fruit and berry products – enter the EcoBerries project. Growing consumer demand for organic food has...
The HERACLES project: safeguarding European cultural heritage against climate change

The HERACLES project – safeguarding European cultural heritage against climate change

HERACLES is promoting the resilience of European cultural heritage in the face of increasing climate change impacts, as project co-ordinator Giuseppina Padeletti explains. Europe has...
Health and usage monitoring systems – from aerospace to shipping

Health and usage monitoring systems – from aerospace to shipping

CEO Thomas JJ Meyer describes how Machine Prognostics AS is introducing health and usage monitoring systems to the shipping industry. First developed as a result...
Investigating the physics of the early Universe – the great goal of modern cosmology

Investigating the physics of the early Universe – the great goal of modern cosmology

Professor Nicola Vittorio, of the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, chronicles past, current, and possible future breakthroughs in our understanding of the physics of...
The Image Data Resource: publishing big image data online

The Image Data Resource – publishing big image data online

Jason Swedlow, Open Microscopy Environment, University of Dundee, UK, discusses publishing big image data online. Access to primary research data is vital for advancing science....
PROFILE: Automated agriculture with Sparter

Automated agriculture with Sparter, the selective harvester

The automation transformation is seeing agriculture transformed. Cerescon’s Thérèse van Vinken and Ad Vermeer discuss how their selective harvesting machine, Sparter, will revolutionise asparagus...
The collecting of motion related and physiological field data quickly | Movesense

The collecting of motion related and physiological field data quickly

The Movesense sensor platform brings new tools for tracking movement and body physiology in research projects. Movesense is an open sensor development platform from the...
Smart cotton against chemical weapons

Smart cotton against chemical weapons

Dr Mohamed M Chehimi explains how catalytic fabrics can be developed to destroy chemical weapons and warfare agents. Chemical weapons constitute a real danger (or...