Advanced solutions for sustainable agriculture
The future of farming
Profitability in agriculture has long been equivalent to economy-of-scale and labour efficiency, achieved by large and heavy machinery. Negative impact of soil compaction and uniform application of pesticides nowadays indicates the need for alternative solutions.
Advanced sensing and automation technologies enable solutions that act on the needs of individual plants. This reduces the need for manual labour and negative impact of pesticides on crop growth. By using these solutions, sustainability and profitability can go hand-in-hand.
Benefits
Green Deal ready
Sustainability and profitability go hand in hand
High robustness
High robustness for weather and year-to-year variations
Digital
Harvest the data along with your crops
Technology
The combination of several recent technology trends enables plant specific decision making and action. At the sensing side, camera technology developed for smartphones generates high quality image data that is the input for powerful image processing based on AI technology. On the other hand, proven robotics technology from industry is more and more able to handle partly unstructured environments typically found in agriculture. By combining both sensing and acting, crops and weeds can be analysed and processed in real-time at scale and at commercially viable costs.
High robustness is achieved by leveraging proven technologies from industry to the agricultural domain, while development has been performed using data from the field since day one.