Crop optimization and yield production is often considered more art than science. Master growers walk the crop, take crop registration and make assessments based on lighting, temperature, nutrient levels, weather, colouration and crop cycles. As margins for high tech cultivation of crops reduce and automation increases, using analytics to more accurately predict and dynamically manage crop growth can deliver competitive advantage.
Modern high-tech greenhouses cultivate crops in soil-less substrates, made from coconut or rockwool to provide stable, high performance growth. Nutrients and water are carefully managed and distributed to the substrate, with constant monitoring of water flowrate, water uptake, electric conductivity and temperature.
eGro creates an integrated view of all key crop data and operational KPIs relevant to various stakeholders within high-tech enterprise greenhouses. Through an integrated dashboard, eGro serves intelligent recommendations and notifications that not only react to cost driving events so as to minimize losses, but also identify yield improving opportunities before they actually happen — increasing efficiency and profits.
