Highest Score. Most Innovative Startup. agroNET at Wine Innovation Summit 2026
agroNET has been recognized at the Wine Innovation Summit 2026, held on March 26 in Almendralejo, as one of the most promising innovations in the wine and agriculture sector.
The Summit, organized within VINAC 2026, is an international event dedicated to innovation in the wine industry, bringing together startups, wineries, research institutions, and technology providers focused on digital transformation, sustainability, and AI-driven solutions in viticulture. More details about the event and its scope can be found on the official Wine Innovation Summit, as well as through announcements published by the City of Almendralejo.
As part of the official Call for Startups, only 11 companies were selected to present their solutions — from a growing ecosystem of AgriFood and AgriTech innovations.
Among them, agroNET.
Presented by our Spasenija Gajinov, agroNET was awarded Most Innovative Startup — one of three recognitions at the event — and achieved the highest overall score during the pitch session, evaluated by international investment funds across multiple criteria, including innovation, scalability, and real-world application.
This recognition highlights agroNET’s role in advancing data-driven, sustainable agriculture — transforming complex farm data into clear, actionable insights that go beyond numbers, enabling faster, smarter, and more precise decisions in the field. Behind it is a team that believes in what they build
Congratulations to the entire agroNET team.
Read MoreCOMMECT project – Digital Resilience in Real-Life Conditions
How can we secure a sustainable future for rural areas, in a time when climate change, migration, and limited infrastructure are making life and work increasingly difficult in remote communities? This question lies at the heart of the COMMECT project – a European initiative focused on bridging the digital divide and empowering rural regions.
A Living Lab for Rural Digital Empowerment
In the village of Gospođinci, on the edge of a protected natural area in northern Serbia, we’ve established the Serbian Living Lab – a real-world testbed for solutions that combine renewable energy, IoT technology, and artificial intelligence. Equipped with mobile solar generators, sensors, cameras, and communication equipment, we enable stable connectivity and continuous data collection even in locations beyond the reach of traditional networks.
These data are processed through the agroNET platform and transformed into actionable insights – when to irrigate, how to prevent plant diseases, or whether to reduce pesticide use. As Senka Gajinov, product manager for digital farming, puts it:
“The goal of the Living Lab isn’t just to install technology – it’s to create a sustainable, shared infrastructure that the local community can truly use and develop. Farmers don’t need technical specifications; they need tangible benefits – saving water, reducing pesticides, improving yields.”
From Data to Action – and Lasting Change
To support knowledge sharing and accessibility, we’ve also developed a multilingual platform with an AI-powered chatbot, allowing users to get advice and exchange experiences across borders, regardless of language or digital skill level.
One local user described the impact as follows:
“Now we know exactly what’s happening in the field. We monitor soil temperature and moisture, plant health… Based on that data, we irrigate only when needed – we save water and time. Instead of diesel pumps, we now use solar ones, and you can immediately see the difference – in our costs and in the environment.”
COMMECT is not about technology for its own sake – it’s about tools that respond to real community needs. First comes the infrastructure, then the knowledge, and over time, a shift in the way agriculture is practiced: from reactive to proactive, sustainable, and data-driven.
For more information, visit the COMMECT website.
Integrating satellite data into the agroNET platform
DunavNET, in collaboration with the Czech Republic and World from Space, is enhancing its agroNET platform by integrating the advanced DynaCrop service for satellite crop monitoring. This innovation will provide Serbian farmers with access to state-of-the-art tools for more accurate yield estimation, soil sampling mapping, and field zoning, enabling them to optimize resources and increase production efficiency.
The first results of the project, supported by the Czech Republic, were presented at a workshop in Ratkovo. Our experts in digital solutions for agriculture, Spasenija Gajinov and Nemanja Mišić, along with Ervin Csőke, a representative of DynaCrop gave a presentation on the first results, demonstrated how the integration of DynaCrop will improve the daily activities of farmers.
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dRural Gradiška
Recently, within the dRural project, an innovative initiative supporting rural development and digital transformation, our advanced agricultural modules have become a part of the dRural platform. As part of this project currently underway in the Gradiška region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, farmers will gain access to agroNET’s services, including:
• Disease and pest prediction service
• Irrigation optimization service
• Poultry well-being service
• Machinery utilization monitoring service
Supported by the H2020 dRural Project through its Open Call for Mirror Regions, the dRural Gradiška initiative is dedicated to catalyzing digital transformation and fostering market development in rural areas. By unlocking access to advanced technologies and expert guidance, this endeavor not only cultivates economic growth but also elevates the standard of living for the local populace.
Beyond its agricultural offerings, the dRural platform hosts a comprehensive array of over 30 services from local entrepreneurs. This expansive selection encompasses diverse sectors, all aimed at fortifying local businesses and enriching the lives of residents.
To learn more, visit the dRural platform.
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poultryNET Deployment in Canada
To address the challenges of inefficient practices, improve animal health, and meet consumer demands for transparency in the poultry farming industry, we collaborated with Axceta to deploy poultryNET in the poultry barns of Sollio Agriculture, located in the Montreal area, Canada.
Our partner, SEEED Studio, has published an excellent article that provides profound insight into how our poultryNET platform, which leverages IoT and AI technologies, is transforming processes on the farm. This transformation results in numerous benefits, including enhanced production and improved animal welfare.
Don’t miss the opportunity to learn more about our project and how poultryNET, in collaboration with SEEED Studio, a recognized leader in the field of sensors and technological devices, is reshaping the poultry farming industry. You can read the full article here and discover the details of the poultryNET solution’s implementation on a chicken farm near Montreal.
Read the article here and discover more about the details of the poultryNET solution’s implementation on a chicken farm near Montreal.
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Empowering Agriculture: The Digital Farming Hub
The DEMETER project officially concluded on August 31st. Throughout the past four years of dedicated work and effort, it has achieved significant accomplishments in the field of digital agriculture. This success is the result of collaboration among 60 partners and extensive development and validation efforts across more than 20 pilot projects spanning Europe.
With pride, we emphasize that some of these results will continue to thrive through the Digital Farming Hub. The Hub will carry forward the core ideas of the DEMETER Project – facilitating streamlined connections with other stakeholders in the supply chain, facilitating data exchange, and enhancing control over agricultural operations.
The Digital Farming Hub provides access to tools for communication, data exchange, and access to critical information.
– The DEMETER SOCS platform has been successfully replicated, enabling collaboration, knowledge sharing, and collaborative creation among agricultural experts. SOCS offers various possibilities: a knowledge base, discussion options, a blog, and access to the centralized resource catalog – Demeter Enablers Hub (DEH).
– ChatBot, a virtual assistant for agriculture, has been significantly sourced from the abundant reservoir of the DEMETER project database. Through an active collaboration with the experts at the Digital Farming Hub, the database will be continuously enriched. ChatBot is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
In addition to these powerful tools, the Digital Farming Hub provides an array of other agricultural services and products. We are particularly thrilled to showcase our agroNET, an all-encompassing farm management platform, within the Hub.
We invite you to explore the Digital Farming Hub and harness the benefits of these cutting-edge solutions.
Join us in shaping the future of agriculture through the Digital Farming Hub!
Read MoreAIMHiGH as an FF4EuroHPC success story
The AIMHiGH project is an experiment that was conducted under the FF4EuroHPC initiative to improve the efficiency and performance of high-performance computing in Europe. The main goal of the engagement was to understand their business challenges and to present an IoT-based poultry farm management solution, supported by a set of sensors for environmental monitoring. The use of HPC and deep learning AI were used to create prediction models that can be deployed on edge devices equipped with camera sensors for use in IoT/AI solutions in the poultry sector.
Several organizations collaborated on the AIMHiGH project. The end-users were the Radinović Company and Meso-Promet Franca, while the University of Donja Gorica, which is part of the NCC Montenegro, provided domain expertise. The ISV for the project was DunavNET, and DigitalSmart provided HPC and AI expertise.
The AIMHiGH project resulted in a new digital farming solution that combines cameras, edge computing, and an IoT platform. The system helped to reduce manual labor costs and chicken mortality rates by 10% and detect disease or abnormalities quicker than before. The technology developed in this project has become a part of the poultryNET platform offering, and there is an opportunity to sell such components to third-party vendors active in the market of smart agriculture solutions.
Overall, the AIMHiGH project demonstrated the potential of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing to develop innovative solutions for the agriculture industry. The project also showcased the benefits of collaboration among different organizations with expertise in various fields.
We invite you to view the video presentation highlighting the AIMHiGH project as one of the success stories of FF4EuroHPC.
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New publication on Botrytis cinerea forecast model
A new paper on Botrytis cinerea forecast modelling has been published in the Journal of Networking and Network Applications (2022). The paper is titled, “Qualitative parameter analysis for Botrytis cinerea forecast modelling using IoT sensor networks’. Botrytis cinerea is a fungus that affects many plant species but attacks wine grapes frequently. The research leading to these results received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 — The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2014–2020, under DEMETER.
The authors of the publication are Spasenija Gajinov, Tomo Popović, Dejan Drajić, Nenad Gligorić and Srđan Krčo.
Abstract: This paper provides results of an evaluation of a fungal disease Botrytis cinerea forecast model (Model for Botrytis cinerea appearing) in vineyards for qualitative analysis of parameters that affect the development of the disease by using data from a network of connected sensors (air temperature and relative humidity, rain precipitation, and leaf wetness). The fungal disease model used by agronomists was digitalized and integrated into agroNET, a decision support tool, helping farmers to decide when to apply chemical treatments and which chemicals to use, to ensure the best growing conditions and suppress the growth of Botrytis cinerea. The temperature and humidity contexts are used to detect the risk of the disease occurrence. In this study, the impact of the humidity conditions (relative humidity, rain precipitation, and leaf wetness) is evaluated by assessing how different humidity parameters correlate with the accuracy of the Botrytis cinerea fungi forecast. Each observed parameter has its own threshold that triggers the second step of the disease modelling-risk index based on the temperature. The research showed that for relative humidity, rain precipitation, and leaf wetness measurements, a low-cost relative humidity sensor can detect, on average, 14.61% of cases, a leaf wetness sensor an additional 3.99% of risk cases, and finally, a precipitation sensor can detect an additional 0.59% of risk cases (in the observed period the risk was detected in 19.19% (14.61%+3.99%0.59%) of the time), which gives a guide to farmers how to consider cost effective implementation of sensors to achieve good performance. The use of the proposed model reduced the use of pesticides up to 20%
The full paper is available DOI:10.33969/J-NaNA.2022.020305
Read MorepoultryNET case study video presentation
poultryNET is a cloud-based solution for the digital transformation of poultry farms. It provides real-time observations of the parameters of interest and digitized domain expertise enabling farmers to manage all steps in the broiler production while reducing negative environmental impact and respecting animal wellbeing.
The main features provide complete 24/7 insight into poultry barns from monitoring environmental parameters, daily weight and consumed feed and water, to a biosafety guide, costs/revenue calculator and digital assistant in problem solving. Using the poultryNET the environmental conditions, as well as food and water consumption and prepared feed mixture, could be tailored to specific animal needs and production goals. Increased of energy, optimized food and water consumption and better meat quality are the main benefits.
The poultryNET solution is applicable for broiler farms, parental flocks and laying hens.
Case study
Four years ago, we started cooperation with Agroprodukt Šinković company by implementing our digital farming platform for poultry production on their farm. The collaboration continued within the DEMETER project by expanding solutions and setting a basis for a transparent supply chain.
The Agroprodukt Šinković is a Serbian company focused on raising laying hens, parental flocks and day-old chicks for over 20 years. Their annual production is more than 10 million day-old chickens.
The video briefly presents the poultryNET case study – with case study customer Agroproduct Šinković Farm.
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Veštačka inteligencija u srpskom agraru?
Digitalizacija je postala jedan od pojmova koji se najčešće provlači kroz javni sektor. Od kulture, preko školstva, pa do javne uprave, neophodno je da i poljoprivreda postane jedan od stubova digitalizacije Srbije.
Kao rezultat zajedničke saradnje sa kompanijom Telekom Srbija, na jednom mestu se našli Telekomova infrastruktura i DunavNET – ova ekspertiza u oblasti IoT/ML/AI tehnologija, te je stvorena odlična polazna osnova za unapređenje poljoprivredne proizvodnje digitalizacijom.
Pročitajte više u mts blogu posvećenom temi upotrebe novih tehnologija i digitalizacije u poljoprivredi.
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