The high point of all the research work carried out by Irstea as part of the Picore project, led by Vincent de Rudnicki at the Montpellier site, was reached at the SITEVI 2015 international exhibition.
«Picore» is the name of the embedded system connected to the monitoring and logging of the hydraulic data related to the spraying of agrochemicals, viewed directly on the Smartphone. It allows the farmer to finetune the sprayer, while checking the quality of the pesticides and herbicides applied and making a saving of 15% to 20% on the product. It also responds to the challenge of reducing the environmental impact of the chemical products used in agriculture, reaffirmed by the Ecophyto2 plan.
This project is the result of the signing today of a patent licence agreement drawn up between SIKA Gmbh, represented by its President, Christian Siebert, and the technology transfer acceleration company AxLR, with Irstea being delegated to coordinate the various aspects of the project, represented respectively by their presidents, Philippe Nérin and Jean-Marc Bournigal.
The Picore project represents a successful collaboration between a public research institute, a commercial industrial enterprise and a technology transfer acceleration company.
