The project will be developed by a consortium of food and technology companies.
Grupo Nueva Pescanova has presented a new R&D project aimed at optimizing food quality and promoting logistics automation in the seafood industry.
The project, called SENSOMARE, will develop new technological solutions based on sensor technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to detect foreign bodies in fish-derived products.
In addition, the system will advance the automation of internal logistics and autonomous navigation in temperature-controlled industrial environments.
This initiative has involved an investment of €1,497,020.80 and has received a public grant of €793,388.08 under the NEXOS program, which aims to promote strategic R&D and industrial innovation initiatives.
SENSOMARE will be developed by Pescanova España (project leader), ISEGA Technology, BINARIAL Automatización y Robótica, and ASM Soft. It also involves the collaboration of ANFACO-CYTMA and the University of Vigo through its Information Technologies Group (GTI).
To optimize the aforementioned quality control processes, photonic systems and advanced artificial intelligence algorithms will be used to automatically detect defects and low-density foreign bodies.
In addition, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) will operate safely and efficiently within production plants, moving between ambient-temperature areas and freezing chambers.
In this way, the project will improve product traceability, reduce errors and waste, enhance production efficiency, and advance toward smart and digitalized factory models.
SENSOMARE will run for a period of three years, until September 2028. During this time, technological research, prototype development, and testing in real production environments will be carried out.
