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Innovative Arctic Food Quality Control for SMEs

InAFQual

About the project

The Interreg Aurora region's food SMEs face increasing pressure to meet legal requirements and rising consumer expectations for food quality and safety. However, due to their small size, most SMEs lack access to up-to-date costly quality control systems to ensure high quality and hygiene throughout the production processes.

This project addresses these challenges by testing innovative, affordable technologies. It focuses on developing alternative solutions using spectral and spectral imaging, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML). These tools are intended to improve food quality assessment and documentation and can be used effectively by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with the goal of making quality control simpler, smarter, safer, and more sustainable.

Project goal

The overall objective of the project is to provide local food producers with affordable tools to preserve and promote Arctic food heritage while enhancing their global competitiveness.

UN's Sustainable Development Goals

4 Quality Education
9 Industry
12 Responsible Consumtion

Viveka Öling-Wärnå

Project Researcher

Period: 1.8.2025 - 31.7.2028
Focus area: Sustainable Technology
Research theme: Intelligent Industries
Campus: Vasa
Total budget: 998 100 €
Novia budget: 299 050 €
Financers: Interreg Aurora, Regional Council of Lapland, Region Norrbotten
Partners: Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (SEAMK)
External coordinator: Luleå University of Technology