Illumitex, the digital horticulture company, is pivoting to become a pure AgTech computer-vision AI company that deploys edge vision systems, edge AI, and cloud services to provide visualization and augmented intelligence for controlled environment agriculture.
“With installations ramping, we are seeing that FarmVisionAI is more valuable to farmers than LED lighting and we are refocusing our resources to accelerate deployments,” says CEO Jeff Bisberg. “By capturing images of every plant at every moment, we create a unique data-set that allows us to close the digital feedback loop and drive amazing new outcomes, at scale, for our customers.”
FarmVisionAI provides three groups of features that can be of high value to the operation:
1.) Visualization: Growers and farmers can see every plant on the farm from anywhere at any time. This provides confidence and assurance as to what is happening to the crop and enables remote high-resolution scouting.
Expert consultancy is also available to enhance your team in the detection and solution of anomalies.
2.) Augmented intelligence: Horticulturist curated AI provides accurate digital scouting of what’s happening with the crops. We detect, report, and alert. A pipeline of new detections provides continued value and intelligence expansion.
3.) Labor management: Monitor and track exactly where every person is on the farm by utilizing heat maps, pictures, locations, and activities.
Some of the benefits of FarmVisionAI include:
Reduced scouting time. Because the system looks at every plant every hour, the user can see at high resolution what is happening on the farm. This can be used to direct more intensive scouting efforts to the areas where plants are in stress.
Reduced Labor. We see where your labor has been, for how long, and where they have not been. Create achievable benchmarks for your procedures from real data and use that to drive to better efficiencies. Catch areas that have been missed.
Loss prevention. By detecting anomalies faster, losses are reduced giving a higher average yield. The time travel feature allows you to “rewind” the clock virtually and see exactly where, what, who, and how that problem occurred.
Faster Turns. FarmVisionAI sees wasted time and space and sends alerts to create urgency to maximize production in your facility.
Insurance. Get piece of mind that your plants are being looked after, no matter how far away the greenhouse is located, what kind of weather it is outside, or who is on vacation. You can log-in and see it at high resolution. See and validate
that SOP’s are consistent across multiple sites.
Illumitex’s FarmVisionAI can be deployed in any grow architecture from containers, to vertical, to warehouse, to greenhouse. Easy installation, without the need for motors or tracks, and does not require the deployment of registration markers in the grow. Cameras are wireless and connect to our cloud through Illumitex deployed gateways and on-site servers.
Currently, the system works with leafy greens and determinant plants. While the first AI algorithms are cannabis-focused, new detections can be activated with as little as 10,000 images of the desired detection target.