Global Digital Farm

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)

Main DI webpage

Other useful link

Other useful link

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution