This project enabled us to deep dive into a philosophically different approach to a data sharing infrastructure. A bottom up approach that empowers the data owner is the optimum solution, focusing on data distribution rather than data aggregation, however, to enable this, many assumptions needed to be clarified.
Dave Swain, Terracipher
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The Australian red meat industry has a wide range of technology solutions to improve business operational efficiencies, however, the data produced by these systems remains frustratingly siloed, fragmented and inconsistent.
Interconnecting these service providers and standardising the data shared between them could unlock latent value throughout the agrifood value chain. Any data sharing infrastructure must put data owners (producers) in control of their own data.
The overall objective of the project was to develop, test and demonstrate how an event-based messaging framework could deliver real time cattle information. This framework had to be accessible and able to drive a range of services that could link to specific value propositions, for example: a machine-to-machine automated messaging service using RFID data.
The specific services that were developed were generated with user input but focussed on three areas of business operations: regulation, cost saving, and profitability.
The project team facilitated a bottom-up approach where the technology empowered producers to take control of their data. This objective was founded on the principle that if the red meat industry wanted to leverage value from their data, then this had to start with producers.
January 2023 - Final Report: TRAKKA: Making Data Flow
November 2022 - Blog: Take Control of your Data with AgriTRAKKA
June 2022 - Research Symposium: TRAKKA: Self-service data microservice for livestock producers
