Semantics for Wastewater Reuse in Agriculture

Water scarcity is one of the main issues that agriculture must face since an increase is expected not only in developing countries but also in southern Europe with Italy featuring a long-term annual average estimated in 1.909 m
³
per inhabitant. To deal with this problem, the EcoLoop project presented in this work proposes an ICT system able to collect, aggregate and analyze IoT data, with the aim to foster reuse of wastewater and optimize water usage in agriculture. A Decision Support System (DSS) acts on wastewater plants managing the irrigation and fertilization strategies, the reservation queues and the network distribution exploiting smart sensors, semantic ontologies and machine learning technologies.