Global Digital Farm
Australia
Developed jointly by Charles Sturt University and Food Agility CRC, the Global Digital Farm is Australia's automated and an integrated digital learning, innovation and research environment working within a full-scale, commercial, mixed farm operation. It includes static and mobile sensing technologies, telecommunications innovations and data-fuelled insights for informed decision making. The Global Digital Farm is a physical and virtual hub incorporating 1) A control centre, bringing together real-time data from across the farm 2) Interactive technology demonstrations and testing, where industry can develop and showcase the latest innovations 3) Extended reality hub to visualise and experiment using augmented and virtual reality 4) A technical lab, to unravel complex interactions between plants, soil and water 5) An innovation centre, with facilities to foster collaboration and 6) A training facility for farmers and agri managers.
Lead (category)
Multi-partners
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
Charles Sturt University Food Agility CRC
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery
Technology-neutral supporting services (incubation, finance, training, etc)
ICT products/solutions and services by category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Social Services (Education, Health, Skills)
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
A training facility, where seeing is learning and doing is knowing.
Business and governance structure
Being jointly developed by Charles Sturt University and Food Agility CRC.
DI ICT-deliverables format
Mobile applications
Interactive data exchanges
Internet of Things / Sensors
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
Agribusiness / private organization
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
1600 ha Source: Developer website
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
Regional
Wagga Wagga in Australia and other regional countries.
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution