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Source: VFD.com "We're trying to democratize automation for greenhouses, not only for the people who have the high-end budgets, but also for the small to medium producers," Ying Hau, the company's COO, said. © Tinneke Hattingh | VerticalFarmDaily.com Ka Suen Jason Chan and
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Source: VFD.com "What I see is that some technologies which before belonged only to certain industrial businesses have now become affordable for growers," Davide explains. "If you wanted to purchase a computer in the 1980s, it cost like a house. Rising wages in regions traditionally associated
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Source: HD.com Turkey: Alanya tropical fruit growers turn to smart automation against climate change Thanks! According to Alanya Tropical Fruit Producers Union President Ali Huddoglu, growers are now modernizing their greenhouses with automated systems that manage ventilation, irrigation, humidity, and soil-based water use. Huddoglu said the union has
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Source: HD.com Tunnel structures, fully automated greenhouses, net houses, and open-field cultivation in colder regions are also gaining traction." "One interesting trend is that the structures themselves are evolving as growers are paying more attention to greenhouse height, ventilation, irrigation precision, and climate control because blueberries
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Source: HD.com "What I see is that some technologies which before belonged only to certain industrial businesses have now become affordable for growers," Davide explains. "If you wanted to purchase a computer in the 1980s, it cost like a house. Rising wages in regions traditionally associated
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Source: VFD.com Balancing tech and automation in controlled environment agriculture Thanks! Balancing tech and automation in controlled environment agriculture Automation, robots, large language models (LLMs), sensor networks, IoT and AI dominate conversations today. Clayton Christensen painstakingly documented how one technology displaces another in his influential book, "The Innovator&
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Source: VFD.com Using data to change the way we grow Just outside Ahmedabad, inside a climate-controlled facility the size of a small industrial estate, a quiet transition in how food is produced is taking shape. This is part of the early phase of what Ahmedabad-based agritech company
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Source: HD.com Originally created within Paraguayan greenhouse company HidroBio before being structured as an independent startup, Froniva was not born as a theoretical software project but as a practical response to the commercialization challenges growers face every day when trying to sell highly perishable products in volatile markets. © Doberman84
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Source: VFD.com SIGA, Solution for Industrial Greenhouse Automation, is built on open industrial standards and is designed to help growers manage processes more efficiently, reduce energy use, and future-proof their production environments. "Climate control, lighting, and irrigation are critical in the greenhouse," says Rick Schneiders, Head
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Source: HD.com The project, known as INSCAN Lite, seeks to address some of the practical challenges associated with deploying advanced plant phenotyping systems in research facilities. The partners aim to develop a plant analysis platform that can be integrated into a wide range of existing greenhouse and climate chamber
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Source: HD.com Today, the industry is increasingly focused on precision, automation and crop-specific optimization as growers look for new ways to improve yield, quality and operational efficiency. "Key trends shaping the industry include dynamic spectrum control, higher efficacy LEDs, AI-driven environmental integration and advanced light recipes
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Source: HD.com James Fleet, Bloemteknik, on the new Grüne Fee Eesti project “Light-use efficiency essential in regions with limited and variable natural light” Designed specifically for challenging Northern European conditions, the new Grüne Fee Eesti greenhouse integrates multiple climate, energy, and automation subsystems into a single, coordinated control