Dense Corporation and Delphy Groep BV have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at developing and promoting smart horticulture based on data.
Recently, the instability of agricultural production caused by factors such as climate change and the decrease in the agricultural population, as well as the resulting food shortage has become pressing problems. In these circumstances, there is a global need to allow anyone stable and sustainable agricultural production, at any time, in any environment.
Dense has been involved in the horticultural business by taking advantage of the technology developed in the automotive sector. When developing environmental control and greenhouse systems for horticulture, as well as harvest robots, dense has continually improved its detection capabilities in greenhouse and harvesting processes.
Delphy is a leading culture consulting company, attended by numerous experts with long -term extensive experience in cultivation support. The QMS crop management software provided by Delphy Inputs climate data, such as temperature and sunlight, together with crop data, including fruit and weights counts, in a model of growth of mathematical plants. By using these data to plan the crop, Delphy has been helping producers to achieve a stable long -term crop.
By resorting to their respective strengths, dense and Delphy have signed the MOU to begin exploring data -based smart horticulture, which optimizes the environment and cultivation methods when consolidating and using essential data for crop growth. The main initiatives are the following:
System development to achieve a stable planned crop
By automatically collecting crop data, which producers have observed visually or hand measured so far, through dense detection technology, accuracy is improved. In addition, when these crop data enters the Delphy QM, it is possible to improve the precision of crop planning. Subsequently, when taking advantage of that cultivation plan to control the greenhouse environment and provide instructions to the workers or automated equipment, the stable and planned culture can be achieved. The two companies will explore the development of a series of systems to carry out this stable and planned crop.
System development for crop simulation in a digital twin environment
By using Donso’s digital twin technology, it is possible to recreate in three -dimensional data the structure of the plant that would result from growing according to the cultivation plan devised by Delphy QM. This allows the analysis and prediction of crop growth in a digital twin environment even before real culture takes place. Both companies will explore the development of a series of systems to carry out these cultivation simulations.
Based on the MOU, dense and Delphy aim to interconnect these two systems to perform a data -based smart horticulture by 2030. Boards, the two companies will accelerate initiatives from all over the world to achieve stable and sustainable agriculture.
Dense corporation
Business Development Division of the Food Value Chain
Executive officer
Yasushi Mukai
Through our collaboration with Delphy, we have taken a new step to perform innovative cultivation solutions that allow planned production by integrating our detection and digital technologies with Delphy’s cultivation knowledge. We will continue challenging ourselves to offer safe and reliable foods at any time, anywhere and for all.
Delphy Groep BV
Managing partner horticulture
Aad van den Berg
The path towards the cultivation of autonomous crops requires new technologies for horticulture. In this way to economically sustainable horticulture, automotive industry technologies will make an important contribution. By integrating dense technologies with Delphy QMS culture management software, we can continue to contribute to this development. We make producers better!
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