Integrating Internet of Things, Provenance and Blockchain to Enhance Trust in Last Mile Food Deliveries

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - The work presented here was supported by an award made by the UKRI, EPSRC funded Internet of Food Things Network+ grant EP/R045127/1. FUNDING: The work presented here was supported by an award made by the UKRI, EPSRC funded Internet of Food Things Network+ grant EP/R045127/1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: We would like to thank G. McWilliam and Aberdeen University Services for their cooperation during the pilot deployments of the PROoFD-IT system. We would also like to thank Food Standards Scotland and the Semantic Web Company GmbH for their valuable comments on the project.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The Role of Cross-Silo Federated Learning in Facilitating Data Sharing in the Agri-Food Sector

Acknowledgements This work was supported by an award made by the UKRI/EPSRC funded Internet of Food ThingsNetwork+ grant EP/R045127/1.Peer reviewedPostprin

Fully Homomorphically Encrypted Deep Learning as a Service

Funding: This research was funded by UKRI-EPSRC grant “The Internet of Food Things” grant number EP/R045127/1.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Recording Provenance of Food Delivery Using IoT, Semantics and Business Blockchain Networks

The work presented here was supported by an award made by the UKRI, EPSRC funded Internet of Food Things Network+ grant EP/R045127/1.Postprin

Model as a Service : Towards a Discovery Platform for Internet of Food

The Internet of Food (INoF) consortium, which is part of Sustainable Food Initiative (SFI), aims to address the future food safety challenges using engineering solutions to make the production process more efficient and sustainable. Inter-organization collaboration can stimulate fast innovation and sustainable research processes by significantly reducing data loss as well as miscommunication. Such collaboration requires an appropriate digital infrastructure that can maintain interoperability among diverse data formats from different sources. This infrastructure should also be able to facilitate sharing of data and services without companies having to share IP (Intellectual Property) or replicate corresponding execution environments. As part of the INoF, this project aims to develop a prototype for such infrastructure and set up a baseline for building an effective model discovery platform. In this context, models are computational units that can provide insights into food products. Having access to results from more models, companies can make better decisions and speed up product development. During this project, a microservice based architecture was de-signed and a prototype was developed that exploited the idea of Model as a Service (MaaS). It has the functionality to offer models in the form of web services allowing organizations other than the owner of the models to use them. For achieving interoperability among different data sources in the context of this project, functionalities, such as dynamic model parameter mapping and on-demand unit conversion, were implemented into this prototype. After execution, results from several models belonging to different organizations can also be viewed through this platform. One of the major goals of this project was to demonstrate the benefits and possibilities of sharing model results to attract further collab-oration. Therefore, several INoF partners were closely involved in this project. The MaaS prototype was also demonstrated to all the INoF partners and earned quite a few appreciations

How might technology rise to the challenge of data sharing in agri-food?

Acknowledgement This work was supported by an award made by the UKRI/EPSRC funded Internet of Food Things Network+ grant EP/R045127/1. We would also like to thank Mr Steve Brewer and Professor Simon Pearson for supporting the work presented in this paper.Peer reviewedPostprin

Data Sharing and Interoperability for Data Trusts Workshop : Summary Report

The workshop was supported by an award made by the UKRI, EPSRC funded Internet of Food Things Network+ grant EP/R045127/1. We would like to thank Paul Mayfield, Hannah Rudman, and Steve Brewer for their contributions to the workshop as well as all our participants for your insightful discussionsPublisher PD

Bridging food security gaps in the European High North through the Internet of Food

Food processing, storage, and distribution are at the centre of environmental damage. Food security gaps include failure to track the geographical origin of foods, food waste, food safety and the quality of food products. To achieve sustainability, changes are required in food supply chains and the entire food system. Consumers need information to make informed choices about what to eat. They need to know where food came from, the conditions under which it grew, and the food’s nutritional profile. The food industry has been slow to take advantage of the internet. However, with increasing interests in redistributed manufacturing, circumpolar regions such as the European High North will need to digitise. The Internet of Food (IoF) is an emerging trend. It will make food traceable, transparent, and trustworthy and empower consumers with more personalised food that caters precisely to individual food, diet, and health choices. It is therefore important to build an information infrastructure around the IoF. This chapter examines how food security gaps can be bridged by collating data that will help to leapfrog local foods into the digital era.Peer reviewe

The internet of food things: Adding values to the digitalisation of the UK food supply chain

The Internet of Things (IoT) is beginning to have a pronounced impact on the digitalised food manufacturing chain. Whilst the food chain is becoming at once more complex and more critical, the application of IoT has begun to be recognised as a key component of this transformation. However, exactly what the IoT is, or is not, is both evolving and provoking a lively debate. New clarifiers are being added to the term such as the Internet of Industrial Things and the Autonomous Internet of Things to ostensibly help clarify the terminology. For the purposes of the Internet of Food Things Network Plus, our conceptual and physical platform is predicated on the idea of a secure and trustworthy network based on open standards, where-possible commodity devices, and underpinned by societally ratified regulatory arrangements

Cooperative Longevity and Sustainable Development in a Family Farming System

This paper focuses on small holding, family farming in Southeast Spain where agricultural economic activity is predominantly organized around cooperative business models. A variety of diverse studies on the Almería agricultural and credit cooperative sector and the exploration of social-economic and eco-social indicators, in addition to economic-market indicators are presented. Each correspond to a cooperative “logic” that spans theoretical perspectives from the dominant economic-market model, new institutionalism, and an eco-social approach, echoing theories on collective coordination governance, and the avoidance of the “tragedy of the commons”. The latter is of particular importance given environmental challenges and scarce resources for agricultural activity. The cooperatives in Almería have increasingly relied on collective collaboration and coordination in order to meet social-economic and social-ecological challenges, transforming their role from that founded on a market dominant logic to that of cooperation as a coordination mechanism based on the mutual benefit of the community and environment. In turn, their ability to meet a wide range of needs and challenges of members and the community leads to their longevity. Cooperatives are able to act as both a market and non-market coordination mechanism, balancing the economic, social, and environmental dimensions, such that neither market nor non-market logics are dominant or exclusive