BEinGRID BE22 - AgroGrid

BEinGRID, Business Experiments in GRID, is the European Union’s largest integrated project funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) research, part of the EU’s sixth research Framework Programme (FP6). 
The BEinGRID consortium is composed of 95 partners who are running 25 Business Experiments (BEs) designed to implement and deploy Grid solutions in industrial key sectors.

AgroGrid - introduces Grid technology into the IT industry acting in the agricultural sector and enhances current IT capabilities by introducing Grid technology in order to enable companies delivering better, cheaper and faster services for their customers.In order to achieve these objectives, AgroGrid designs and implements services for the composition and monitoring of dynamic supply-chains in agriculture food industries using Grid technology making use of trust-building commercialization support mechanisms.

The AgroGrid platform enables companies to deploy unused resources in a profitable way and it lowers the transaction costs of collaboration in dynamically formed supply chains. At the same time, it enables a gap-free tracking and tracing of products to ensure food quality and safety.