The final report has been published from the German “DIGICHECK” project, which aims to strengthen and verify Organic traceability by utilising Internet-of-Things sensors and digital traceability systems.
The project aimed to achieve
- The digital collection of real-time land, yield and certification data (from certifiers) and product transaction data (from companies of trading, processing, etc.) as well as the linking of this data as information for authorised users;
- the calculation of mass balances along product chains calculated from land, income and transactions;
- the use and linking of geographical information systems (GIS) and data collected by sensors to the certification data in order to provide control bodies with additional tools for their control activities, including independently of an on-the-spot visit;
- the optimisation of control activities and quality assurance measures along the cereal product chain through the exchange of information between the operators involved;
- clarifying which instruments and measures are permitted under the EU Organic Regulation and the German Organic Farming Act and could be implemented as required;
- the evaluation of which tools can be usefully used by control authorities and which information should be made available in the event of fraud or monitoring;
- the evaluation of the extent to which data can be evaluated for statistical purposes.
