Catalogue of Services

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Policy lab for innovative drone technologies in regulatory sandboxes
Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek (ILVO)
Location
Belgium
Arable farming
Greenhouse
Horticulture
Livestock farming
Tree Crops
Viticulture

This service is designed to support agri-food companies that want to test and evaluate the use of innovative drone technologies in a controlled environment—a so-called regulatory sandbox. Setting up such a drone sandbox requires navigating complex airspace regulations, flight safety rules, environmental constraints (e.g., drift, pesticide use), and data protection standards. Our experts help you design and prepare a sandbox operation from A to Z: from selecting a test location and identifying legal permissions needed to preparing risk assessments, notifying authorities, and ensuring safe operational procedures. We also offer advice on sensor integration, traceability, and aligning with EU drone and agricultural regulations such as Regulation EU 2019/947 on the operation of unmanned aircraft. This is an ideal service for companies wishing to run trials with crop spraying or precision seeding drones before launching commercially. - Set up a regulatory sandbox to safely and legally test spraying or seeding drones. - Understand the full list of permissions, safety protocols, and risk assessments required. - Learn how to engage with authorities (e.g., airspace regulators, pesticide control bodies). - Get support in preparing the documentation to operate drones legally during the test phase.

Desk assessment
Test design
Test setup
Preparation of computational test environment
Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI)
Università degli Studi di Milano (UMIL)
Location
Italy
Remote
Arable farming
Food processing
Greenhouse
Horticulture
Livestock farming
Tree Crops
Viticulture

To successfully conduct a digital testing campaign, preparatory activities are usually required to set up the computational environment used for testing. This service performs activities such as:

  • setting up the hardware resources needed to run the tests

  • configuring and initialising the virtual environments used for testing (e.g., Docker images, private “data rooms” for safe data sharing)

  • installation and configuration of required software packages and dependencies 

  • setting up authentication layers, user roles and credentials as needed

  • migration and/or exchange of required data and ground truth annotations 

  • installation and configuration of a simulator

  • importing and configuring a previously defined simulated environment

  • executing dry-runs to check that all elements of the test environment operate as required

Environment preparation is done according to an environment design provided by the customer. If needed, such a design can be done by agrifoodTEF for the customer via Service S00176.

Interested customers can get support from agrifoodTEF for the entire pipeline involved in digital testing, from the design of its other elements beside the environment (namely, the testing protocol via service S00177 and the evaluation metrics via service S00178) to test execution (service S00182), data collection (service S00183), and evaluation (S00184). Support in interconnecting the systems under test to the digital testing environment, if needed, is available via service S00181.

Test setup