Nowadays, the internet of things is finding more and more public support and represents a growing opportunity for development for many sectors, such as health, transport, public administration. The basic concept of IoT is that objects ("things") can interact with the network and transfer data and information in order to improve  services on the territory. In the IoT paradigm, an "electronic identity" can be given to everything that forms the world around us, through, for example, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and other technologies (QR code). Therefore, the concept of Big Data and the related problems connected with the analysis and automatic management of such information off-line or in real time are born.

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Through the synergistic collaboration between business partners of high ICT connotation ( T.Net Italia SpA , Homatron Srl , Vicosystems Srl ) and scientific research partners with a strong territorial vocation ( Department of Agriculture , Food and Environment of the University of Catania and Centro for the dairy sector - Corfilac ), the CowTech project aims to extend the IoT paradigm (Internet of Things) to rural areas with a high livestock vocation, with particular reference to those affected by the presence of farms for cows to be milk. In fact, it is believed that, in the global market, the technological innovation acquired by partner companies by virtue of collaboration with research institutions, and transferred to farms for  Dairy cows through the CowTech project could play a leading role in the development of two important Sicilian agri-food chains, that of milk and that of dairy products, of which dairy cattle farms constitute the first link.