Argentine students, finalists among 11 countries with an application to improve livestock

"VACA" is the name of the development that they created Pilar Tagliero, Ana Bianca Rómulo -University of La Plata, Franco Negri -University of Buenos Aires- and Tamara Teplitz – National University Center of the Province of Buenos Aires – with the fundamental objective of useful information, the efficient use of resources in the field, from satellite images and meteorological data.

Among other aspects, badyzes the quality and quantity of pastures, the number of animals in pens and the physical condition of livestock.

Young people registered for the competition in mid-2018 "Fly Your Ideas" of European society, where the protagonists of the next generation of innovators are invited to "propose and develop original ideas for the aerospace industry".

After incorporating an initial payroll of 270 projects, that of the Argentineans was selected to compete for the last prize, composed of 45,000 euros, and the possibility of developing new companies.

The selected concepts represent a wide variety of advanced trends such as "Intelligent wheelchair" (Intelligent Wheelchair) for air travel or "Solar wind turbine", (solar mill).

The members of the finalist team represent 11 countries (Germany, Argentina, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Moldova, Norway, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) and eight different universities.

His academic background ranges from engineering and information technology to natural sciences and finance.

Since its launch, more than 22,000 students from some 700 universities and 100 countries have registered to participate in Fly Your Ideas.

The Argentine team is the only representative of Latin America. In June, students will travel to Toulouse (France) to work in Airbus' innovation and R & D facilities in order to continue to progress in the development, prototyping or visualization of their ideas. advanced equipment badistance, with the support of Airbus.

Designed for use exclusively in rural areas, "VACA" has three basic services: the provision of weather information through an alert system to predict weather phenomena such as floods or droughts, the use of satellite images to check the status. field and badess the quality and quantity of pasture.

Finally, he is considering the incorporation of a tag or a chip in each cow to control its movement through readers located near the troughs.