Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOGB20240327023
- Term of Validity
- 27 March 2024 - 27 March 2025
- Company's Country
- United Kingdom
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
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The UK multi-award-winning indoor farming technology company has an international reputation as a leading innovator within the AgriTech sector.
The company has a market-leading farm management software technology that automates and controls indoor farms via a fully integrated platform including lighting, irrigation, fertigation, environmental controls.
The company seeks international partners for commercial agreements with technical assistance in order to validate and appraise the platform. - Full Description
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The UK company was founded in 2015 and has since developed a global reputation as a leading innovator and solution provider for indoor farming.
The company has achieved significant commercial success with a global customer base. The company has a state-of-the-art indoor farming research centre, which has enabled them to accelerate the technical development of their new integrated farm management software platform.
The software platform has been designed to make growing food indoors more efficient, predictable, and controllable. The platform has been built with simple workflows and is easily integrated into polytunnel and greenhouse environments.
The platform is undergoing testing in growing environments and has been installed with some of the Europe’s largest indoor farming environments.
The company is looking to collaborate with organisations that manage and/or own indoor farming environments in order to deploy the farm management software into new environments. This will support the validation of the technical deployment of the software, as well as the verification of the cost and efficiency benefits achieved when using the software.
The company seeks to work with partners under a commercial agreement with technical assistance. - Advantages and Innovations
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The platform is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform (app) that has been specifically created to be easily integrated into existing indoor farming environments.
The platform collects data on plants, overseeing inputs to crop growth and allows growers to trace crops from seed to sale, making operations more efficient, and adding the benefit of a full food provenance chain. Growers can reliably optimise plant growth and improve operations throughout the growing cycle and aligned with crop growth recipes.
With the platform, growers can automate manual tasks, remotely control multiple or single sites for consistent production, and optimise crop performance to increase yields over time - all from one app.
The app supports operational efficiency by tracking daily tasks and crop batches within the app. Multiple users allow complete transparency across the farm, so no leaf goes unchecked.
The app enables intelligent control of all hardware, beds, reservoirs, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems, as well as custom crop recipes and batches. This means that it is easy to maintain the perfect conditions for crops.
The app is compatible with all irrigation methods and indoor farming set-ups. Connected control and management data enables the tracking of energy usage as well as crop health, so that growers can monitor farm performance, energy efficiency, and costs. - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and ProductionGoal 13: Climate ActionGoal 2: Zero HungerGoal 7: Affordable and Clean EnergyGoal 11: Sustainable Cities and CommunitiesGoal 15: Life on Land
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The UK company is looking to engage with partners across multiple regions who own or manage indoor farming environments.
Ideal partners will be companies who own or manage polytunnels and greenhouses and are producing crops on an industrial scale.
Commercial partners will support the testing and validation of the technical aspects of the integrated farm management software as well measure the operational and cost efficiencies.
This validation activities will be both technical and user experience focused and include onboarding, data integration, workflow testing, and benefits capture.
The company is expecting to build long-lasting commercial relationships which will support the company to expand into new international territories and produce mutually beneficial case studies.
Preferably, the sought partners are expected to have:
- Capacity to integrate and use the platform
- Technical capabilities for managing an indoor farming environment
- Good communication and collaboration skills
- Flexibility in terms of delivery - Type and Size of Partner
- Big companyOtherR&D InstitutionSME 11-49SME 50 - 249SME <=10University
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
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Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 01003006 - Computer Software
- Market keywords
- 02007028 - Other software related02007014 - Other industry specific software09005 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, Animal Husbandry & Related Products
- Sector Groups Involved
- Agri-FoodDigital
- Targeted countries
- All countries