Smart Farm Colab (SFCOLAB)

About Smart Farm Colab (SFCOLAB)

Smart Farm Colab (SFCOLAB) is a Portuguese Collaborative Laboratory with the mission to boost Digital Innovation in Agriculture by developing integrative, inclusive and affordable agro-tech solutions.

SFCOLAB is based on a Quadruple Helix Model of innovation, bringing together different actors across the science (universities and a Research Public State Laboratory), policy, industry/ SMEs and society interacting within a knowledge framework.

Aware of the need for the democratisation and the literacy in Agriculture 4.0 (Ag 4.0) for a better adoption of digital technologies within productive sector, SFCOLAB‘s strategy focus on both i) developing customised digital solutions, and on ii) providing the specialised technical support for implementing and recommending the best management practices, with the ultimate goal to promote more sustainable production systems using more accurate and adapted digital and real-time monitoring systems.