Agriculture increasingly depends on data – from machinery and sensors to compliance, logistics, and certification. Yet this data is fragmented across equipment vendors, SaaS platforms, cooperatives, and public systems. Farmers and agri-businesses generate the data, but rarely control how it is stored, reused, or shared.

W3DS provides a data-centric architecture for agriculture, where operational and regulatory data remains under the control of its producers, while multiple digital services can securely operate on the same shared data space.

Today’s agricultural data landscape is defined by platform silos:
– Machinery and farm management systems store data in proprietary formats
– Switching software providers often means losing historical data
– The same data is repeatedly re-entered for compliance, subsidies, insurance, and audits
– Data sharing with buyers, regulators, or researchers is manual and costly
– Long-term farm knowledge is fragmented across systems and seasons

This leads to higher operational costs, weak interoperability, and growing dependency on closed platforms.

W3DS separates data from applications.


– Primary agricultural data is stored in farm- or enterprise-controlled eVaults
– Platforms and services access data only via explicit, verifiable permissions
– Multiple services can work with the same data without copying or owning it
– Data remains persistent across vendors, technologies, and time

This allows farmers and agri-businesses to change tools without losing data, while service providers compete on functionality rather than lock-in.

A W3DS-based agricultural data space can cover literally all types of data produced across the agricultural value chain, including:


– Field and crop data – yields, soil metrics, treatments, crop history
– Machinery and IoT data – equipment usage, sensor readings, maintenance
– Supply chain data – inputs, storage, logistics, provenance
– Compliance data – certifications, inspections, subsidies, reporting
– Financial and contractual data – insurance, financing, buyer agreements

All data remains logically unified, even when produced by different actors and systems.

Farmers and cooperatives
– Reduced administrative overhead through reusable data
– Freedom to select and replace digital services without data loss
– Stronger position in interactions with buyers, insurers, and authorities
– Accumulation of long-term farm knowledge across seasons


Agri-tech and service providers
– Access to high-quality, consent-based data without building new silos
– Faster integration with farms and partners
– Ability to build services that work across vendors and regions


Public programs and regulators
– More reliable and auditable data flows
– Lower cost of verification and compliance

– Reduced duplication and fraud

We work with farmers’ organisations, agri-tech providers, cooperatives, and public bodies to design and pilot W3DS-based agricultural data spaces, starting from narrow, high-impact use cases and scaling ecosystem-wide.


W3DS is already being implemented in the European Innovation Partnership project W3DS-Agro.

For platforms and service providers ready to transition from traditional Web2 data silos to W3DS-compatible architectures, the W3DS-Ventures consortium offers both investment and implementation support — including guidance on adoption strategies, integration, and scaling across industries such as agriculture. You may pitch your project or discuss next steps at info@w3ds.vc