Desk assessment activities for physical systems

This service description is intentionally generic. Every instance of this service is, in fact, customised to adapt it to the needs and requirements of the specific customer. The following is an example of a service instance (please note that the service is available for many agricultural sectors, not only the one considered by the example).Example service: the customer is interested in testing solutions to autonomously detect hydric stress in grapevines. Initial validation rounds performed by the customer on Red Globe vineyards have shown unreliable performance; thus, the solution is not yet ready for testing in an experimental context that closely matches its target market.

The customer wants to: i) improve the performance of the current solution, ii) extend the validation to the Cabernet Sauvignon grape variety. Based on these requirements, the desk assessment service provides the customer with: a list of priority changes to apply to the system (e.g., overview of functionalities to integrate from more recent and up-to-date models, recommended sensor upgrades with makes and models, …), an analysis of error causes and technical barriers (e.g., detection based on hyperspectral cameras not mature enough, significant investments in chemical analyses and expert human assessment also required), a mapping of the requirements to resources already available within the consortium or in the market (e.g., facilities within the consortium that enable controlled irrigation, existing datasets covering the Cabernet Sauvignon variety, …).