Detailed assessment of the energy performance of farms using new information and communication techniques (NTIC)

With the growing concern of farmers about their energy consumption, it becomes necessary to measure energy performance, to locate which parts of the production system could become less energy-intensive. There are currently assessment and diagnosis methods at farm level (such as the Planete method) which identifies all energy consumption items. But these are based solely on data from operators, collected manually; while requiring a lot of time, they all deal with the scale of the farm, and are therefore not suitable for a detailed evaluation of energy performance. This internship report aims to demonstrate the feasibility of a similar diagnostic method for evaluating the energy performance of farms on a fine scale, using digital technologies. A device for routine recording and automatic data storage has been developed and tested, and results are compared to the manual data collection solution. It is shown that it is possible to assess in detail the energy performance of farms, what exactly each indicator brings. However, the complexity of agricultural tasks appears as a real obstacle for automatic data collection