New Era of Technology-Driven Agriculture

CrackSense is a Horizon Europe project spanning four years, from January 2023 to December 2026. Comprising 14 partners from 7 countries, CrackSense aims to address the problem of fruit cracking in citrus, pomegranate, table grapes and sweet cherries by developing and upscaling sensing technologies that will provide real-time sensor data through experimental and piloting activities.

Project Objectives

SO1 Upscale sensing technologies to collect data at the fruit, tree and plot scales, to enable real-time monitoring of fruit cracking, estimation of yield loss, and assessment of risk of cracking incidence

SO2 Create agri-environmental datasets relevant to fruit cracking by combining and processing-at-the-source (edge computing) multi-source/multi-modal data collected through sensors used in agricultural production and Earth Observation data

SO3 Develop models and SDSSs to estimate the risk of cracking by integrating regional cracking incidence data with environmental and climatic data, and with data collected through sensors used in agricultural production and Earth Observation data

SO4 Upscale the sensing and analysis tools developed, to assess the risk of cracking incidence through piloting activities in a number of agricultural crops in a wide geographical region

SO5 Disseminate, communicate CrackSense results, develop business models and support policy maker in further development of digital and data technologies

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How CrackSense is changing the game for crack-free harvests?

State-of-the-art Sensing Technologies

10+ most sophisticated data & real-time sensing technologies, utilising proximal, remote and satellite sensing

Upscaling Through Co-creation and Multi-actor Approach

5 Research institutes and universities
5 Farmer associations & organisations
3 Technology/agritech SMEs
1 Business association
1 Policy advisor

Comprehensive Testing & Piloting

In depth research, experiments & piloting activities on 4 types of fruits, in 5 different climatic regions on 2 continents

CrackSense Tailor-made Solution

A suite of CrackSense solutions and a web-based spatial decision support system designed to help farmers and growers mitigate their yield losses caused by cracking by half

Multi-actor approach