agrifoodTEF Austria
Your Testbed in the Heart of Europe

Turning agrifood innovation into market-ready solutions through real-world testing and validation of AI and robotics technologies.

Accelerating Your Path to Market

Through collaboration & support in ...

Applied R&D.

We support applied research and development by designing, prototyping, and validating AI-enabled and robotic solutions for real agricultural use cases. Our work builds on access to diverse Austrian test infrastructure and facilities.

Testing.

We provide structured, real-world testing and independent validation to assess performance, safety, and readiness for deployment. A complete overview of available services can be found in the agrifoodTEF consortium service catalogue.

Market visibility.

We support market visibility by facilitating connections within the Austrian and European agrifood ecosystem and by sharing validated results through agrifoodTEF channels. For a complete overview, see the agrifoodTEF consortium success stories.

Infrastructure & Capabilities

agrifoodTEF Austria provides access to real-world test environments, technical infrastructure, and applied expertise for testing and validating agrifood technologies.

Where you test

Infrastructure

Testfields, on-farm environments, and livestock research facilities for real-world validation.

  • • Testfields in Wieselburg and across Austria
  • • Arable land, grassland, and viticulture
  • • Livestock research barns
What enables testing

Technical Stack

Equipment, sensors, data systems, and computing resources for AI-enabled agrifood research and validation.

  • • UAVs and drones, including automated drone hub infrastructure
  • • LiDAR, RGB, NIR, multispectral and thermal imaging systems
  • • Mobile sensor platforms and embedded data acquisition systems
  • • AI and computing infrastructure for data processing and model validation
What companies get

Capabilities

Applied expertise to design, run, and evaluate tests under practical agricultural conditions.

  • • AI, robotics and sensor validation under real-world conditions
  • • Dataset generation, annotation and ground-truthing
  • • Experimental design, field trials and performance benchmarking
  • • Development of applied tools such as TerraZo and SoilCover

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Collaborating across Europe

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Funding Partners

Supporting agrifoodTEF Austria

FFG – Austrian Research Promotion Agency
European Union