SE - AI livestock farming solution nominated for £1m science prize fund - Queen Mary University of London

'Farm AI: Community Smart Farming from IoT to AI' aims to take the researchers' work in China – a project named LIVEQuest* which developed a wearable Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform that enables automated data collection on animal welfare and barn environment - further into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. It will support the sustainable intensification of food production and animal health by community farm holders via the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) along the old and new silk routes. It has been shortlisted for the Chair's Award which offers up to £500,000 for a project that demonstrates the best knowledge exchange, partnership development and research impact. Farm-AI brings together a mutually complementary and synergistic UK, China, Vietnam and Cambodia team to innovate a sustainable and low-cost IoT system coupled with embedded AI for community smart farming via field trials, workshops and academic exchanges. This project will position the UK as a world leader and pathfinder for the deployment of AI empowered cost effective and IoT systems to support smart farming in developing countries.