Watson Project
A holistic frameWork with Anticounterfeit and inTelligence-based technologieS that will assist food chain stakehOlders in rapidly identifying and preveNting the spread of fraudulent practices.
The project aims to develop a set of tools and systems that can detect and prevent fraudulent practices across the food supply chain.
We speak to Dr. Dimitrios Argyropoulos, about this fascinating project. Read the full interview by clicking on the maga
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Watson is a €11 million 3-year project that has been funded by the EU’s research and innovation framework, Horizon Europe to combat fraudulent practices in the food supply chain.
Watson’s interdisciplinary consortium of 44 partners across 19 EU and non-EU countries will develop a holistic traceability framework that will integrate data-driven services, intelligence-based toolsets and risk-estimation approaches, enabling food safety authorities to identify and prevent fraudulent activities.
Watson will rely upon the following digital and intelligence-based technologies:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI).
- Internet of Things (IoT).
- Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).
- A suite of novel Spectroscopy-based Technology.
Watson is organized around 6 agri-food sectors. The proposed framework will be tested in six different European countries considering different operational procedures and diverse environments:
- Tackling counterfeiting of wine in Portugal.
- Rapid traceability of extra virgin olive oil in Italy.
- Improved traceability of high-value products in cereal. and dairy chain in Finland.
- Preserving the authenticity of PGI honey in Spain.
- Identification of possible manipulations at all stages of the meat chain in Germany.
- Combating of fish counterfeiting in Norway.