Traceability and Quality Monitoring throughout the Fish Value Chain
The TraceMyFish duration is from November 1st, 2021, to November 1st, 2023.
The full title of of the project is “Traceability and Quality Monitoring throughout the Fish Value Chain”, funded by the ERA-NET BlueBio Cofund initiative.
Project Summary
TraceMyFish aims to advance supply system in three geographically distributed blue bioeconomy value chains, by designing and implementing a iFishManagementSystem that will allow the tracking and tracing of safety and quality-critical information across the links of the targeted value chains. Moreover, the TraceMyFish iFMS will establish a secure, trust-enabled data infrastructure, which will collect, preprocess, and analyze data coming from innovative, portable sensing devices of different nature and modality (spectral imaging, variegating IoT sensors) and informing specialized AI models and architecture that will enable timely risk prediction to different value chain actors. The examined fish products will carry smart barcodes that, in communication with the iFMS, will carry safety information related to each product and will allow stakeholders and consumers to access this information easily, and reliably at any time.
To realize its goals, TraceMyFish brings together highly experienced research and industrial partners, bringing their expertise in all different scientific and technical disciplines critical for the project: risk and quality assessment for fish products, food microbiology and nutritional analysis, development and testing of spectral devices, data management and processing, and machine learning and data science.
Furthermore, and in order to maximize the impact of the project and its results, TraceMyFish will devise and implement a comprehensive plan comprising a wide variety of dissemination, communication and Human Capacity Building activities. These will allow the focused and organized outreach to stakeholders and the general public, strengthening their understanding on the importance of fish safety and showcasing the means to ensure it. Additionally, they will strongly inform and steer the TraceMyFish business plan, which will set the framework for exploiting and commercializing the TraceMyFish iFMS and its core components.
The project workplan is divided into 8 work packages as illustrated below.
Core Outcomes
Core outcomes, TRL advancement and foreseen added value
The main assets of the TraceMyFish project are the following:
- Risk assessment framework for fish safety: TraceMyFish aims to advance the assessment framework from its current lab-tested
version (TRL4) to a version ready to be incorporated in a complete prototype solution (TRL5). - Spectral imaging-based detection devices: TraceMyFish aspires to use already proven spectral imaging technologies and transfer them to portable, handheld devices, an endeavour currently at the validation stage (TRL5). Via TraceMyFish a prototype of the aforementioned devices will be produced and used in the context of the TraceMyFish pilots (TRL6).
- AI models for fish safety assessment: the Machine Learning architectures proposed for integration in the TraceMyFish iFMS have been tested with realistic artificial data on different application domains (TRL4) and will be advanced to TRL5 as part of the iFMS framework.
- Data platform for fish safety: while the underlying data platform architecture is already stable, the integration of smart barcodes and
inputs from handheld spectral sensors has just been initiated (TRL3). We aspire to reach a TRL5 for the fish safety-centred data platform by the end of the project.
