The app brings the company’s horticulturist trained AI to a smart phone platform
FarmVisionAI mobile app for in-field grower engagement. (Credit: Illumitex)
FarmVisionAI, a Illumitex’s agriculture Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, has launched a mobile application to engage growers in-field with vision AI stress detections.
The app brings the company’s horticulturist trained AI to a smart phone platform which can be utilised while scouting plants and walking the farm.
With location specific information, it allows the grower and FarmVisionAI to validate detections and supplement imagery along with close-up pictures taken with the phone’s camera.
Illumitex CEO Jeff Bisberg said: “The FarmVisionAI mobile app is a critical piece of functionality that bridges the gap between growers and operators.
“Our real-time imagery is the ground truth and provides transparency that can cut through communication barriers and finger pointing.”
The images from growers are geo-tagged to the location
FarmVisionAI said that the pictures from the growers are geo-tagged to the location and appear in the desktop application which displays the grow in a “google-earth” like visualisation.
To highlight what is happening in the grow and what needs to be done, there is an option to add notes, recommendations, as well as actions to the imagery.
FarmVisionAI horticulture science leader Mark McDevitt said: “Growing at scale can be extremely complex. The ability for FarmVisionAI users to capture images of specific issues through the mobile app is huge.
“First, pictures are securely stored and organized in the FarmVisionAI system instead of grower’s phones. Second, it allows for analysis and diagnosis from individuals from anywhere in the world.
“And third, it’s a repository for intellectual property in the form of visually based growing knowledge, specific to that site, that can be used for training, benchmarking and SOPs.”
In October last year, Digital horticulture company Illumitex has expanded its FarmVisionAI platform to support broad deployment into almost any controlled environment agriculture (CEA) facility, with or without lighting.