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CIRVEAU has 4 10-spot igloos, which are collective outdoor pens, covered and mobile. A shelter in the form of an igloo is provided to the animals at the back of the pen. The whole is placed on a concrete platform, covered with straw bedding when animals are present.

This facility matches the most frequently encountered buildings in calf breeding farms. However, with its various equipment and connected sensors, it allows working on working comfort, interest in automation, and benefits of new technologies. It is divided into 2 rooms of 96 slots, one with classical dynamic ventilation and the other with centralised dynamic ventilation. Each room is composed of 12 pens for 8 calves each, with open-work wood flooring.

A herd of 15 Salers and Armoricaine cows are conducted extensively on this land. The herd is given access to the moorland from early spring to late autumn; the exact dates can vary from one year to the next. This serves as a good example of extensive breeding in large and remote rural areas, with limited physical access and limited access to any kind of communication network.

In this facility, animals are housed here from weaning until slaughter, in 11 batches. They are housed in free pens, on straw. Due to a breeding conduct in batches, this facility is not always at its maximum hosting capacity.

In this facility, animals are housed here from weaning until slaughter, in 10 batches. They are housed in free pens, on straw. Due to a breeding conduct in batches, this facility is not always at its maximum hosting capacity.

In this facility, animals are housed here from weaning until slaughter, in 15 batches. They are housed in free pens, on straw. Due to a breeding conduct in batches, this facility is not always at its maximum hosting capacity.

The workshop can be used for storage, working on a prototype, or loading the robot’s batteries. It can be helpful to avoid multiple transportations of a robot, for example, when the field experimentations must last more than a day. It is equipped with electric plugs and has convenient tools for working on metal or wood.

In this facility, 120 calves can be housed from 15 days old until weaning. They arrive in the facility in batches and are housed in groups of up to 6 calves, living in free pen, on straw. Due to a breeding conduct in batches, this facility is not always at its maximum hosting capacity

Our laboratory allows us to carry out analyses on grapes, must, wine, but also on the soil, and even pathogens; It makes it possible to make the link between practices in the vineyard and qualitative indicators.

Our experimental cellar allows vinification at different scales, depending on the needs of the experiment: from 1 L to a few hectolitres. Our most common volume is 50 L. It is equipped with rooms at different temperatures and even a device of connected tanks to monitor and record the fermentation parameters under different conditions. As part of the TEF project, we can receive different connected sensors to collect data. The interest, with AI, is to develop predictive quality models for winemaking.