Aerobotics' AI Engineered Solutions
Aerobotics' AI Engineered Solutions
Now providing an extra layer of resilience to fruit and nut production
Recent growing seasons have not been without their frustrations for fruit and nut farmers…
A host of challenging conditions domestically and across markets have pressured producers and all industry stakeholders with rising input costs, ongoing load-shedding, strain on demand, and deteriorating municipal service delivery, corruption in public offices, and setbacks across network industries including roads, rail, and ports - a thorn in the side of the food and beverage industries that have constrained agribusinesses for some time.
A balance of technology, engineering, and tailored expertise can mitigate and curb inefficiencies across these networks and simultaneously enhance, improve, or wholly take the place of traditional operational practices that were born in an era less fraught with such an diverse mix of pressures we are experiencing today.
Aerobotics, one of South Africa's most celebrated AgriTech startups, supports farmers globally with ground-breaking innovation-forward solutions created by the brightest minds in software, data, and vision engineering.
Using drone-derived aerial imagery, cloud-computing, and AI powered mobile apps to bring digital intelligence and precision agricultural tools to producers; adding a higher level of certainty to the interface between farm, pack house, marketers, and exporters.
A significant pressure on farmers has been the sharp increase in costs of doing business, which has eaten away at margins, and slowed progress for new agribusinesses or those looking to expand, mechanise, or digitise sections of their production operations.
Digital tools offer a tremendous amount of consumer surplus, especially where solutions solve specific pain points. Paired with a comparatively low barrier to entry and machine learning, digital tools engineered for optimised ways of farming have a marked impact on mitigating the significant pressures all farmers face.
With Aerobotics’ release of their new yield management tools - now available for use by macadamia nut production teams and marketers - farmers can now measure, manage, and protect their fruit and nut yields directly from a cloud-based platform and a smartphone.
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An all-new mobile app focused on yield monitoring using AI, allowing producers to digitally collect fruit (and nut) count info and size measurements with ease in-field, enabling them to collect data at sample points that are AI generated off the back of tree insights gained from a drone survey.
Sample waypoints are more representative than ever before; ushering in a new layer of added precision to sample collections. Data collection is seamless, and happens at a higher frequency than traditional means with zero pen-and-paperwork or double and triple data captures which would inevitably introduce human error into an otherwise critical set of data collection steps that inform on real-time and forecasted yield insights.
The increased efficiencies allow producers to take action at the ideal time to manipulate your crop load, and in turn fruit sizes. Obtaining the right sized fruit for the preferred market demand, at the highest quality possible is top priority. The Aerobotics AI tools have been specifically engineered to address these priorities and build in a level of insurance against a reduced return on investment taking into account the sharp rise in input costs and a challenging farming environment for all.
The significance of data engineered and vision engineered AI powered solutions is far reaching. The Aerobotics mission addresses sustainability challenges and one of the SDG goals of “Responsible Production and Consumption” by not only empowering producers but by assisting to reduce waste - a massive problem in the areas like the citrus industry - by helping farms to not only get their produce to the right size at harvest, but also leverage specifically engineered digital tools as an important asset in their toolbox for improving the quality of their yields, and managing stress and variance in orchards or vineyards - all with added precision.
Insights into yield paired with drone surveys and industry expertise helps farmers to better manage nutrition programs (including rising inputs), water management, and empower staff with powerful tools they can use to make a real impact on their industries.
Learn more: Request a demo of the Aerobotics platform “Aeroview”