Fermata and agRE.tech integrate pest monitoring and robotic systems

The collaboration establishes a method for crop screening, enabling growers to shift focus from discovery to mitigating harmful crop threats in open fields. – Photo: Fermata

Fermata, a data science company specializing in computer vision agriculture solutions, partners with agRE.tech, developer of a robotic operating system for sustainable autonomous agrivoltaics farming, Together they want to bring AI-powered crop screening to the emerging agrivoltaics market. This partnership integrates Fermata’s Croptimus™ platform which performs real-time pest and disease monitoring with agRE.tech’s autonomous robotic system to offer growers an automated crop management system.

By embedding Fermata’s Croptimus™ system into agRE.Tech’s solar-powered robots, this collaboration establishes a method for crop screening, enabling growers to shift focus from discovery to mitigating harmful crop threats in open fields. Croptimus’s™ cameras, which rotate 360° to enable precise crop scanning in open fields, so that each of agRE.tech’s robots only needs one camera to effectively monitor crops.

Powered by AI algorithms and trained on ata, Croptimus™ scans 24/7, analyzing each plant using its AI model to determine if there is a threat, sending automatic real-time alerts to the agRE.os and the growers. If a threat is detected, agRE.tech’s robots can autonomously neutralize it by selectively spraying the necessary treatment to the exact location, reducing the amount of chemical-based pesticides and expensive biological controls needed.

agRE.tech’s A²PV operating system leverages AI to enable fully autonomous farming through robotics. With its robotic capabilities, the agRE.os’s operating system enables 24/7 dynamic data collection, selective spraying, pruning, harvesting, and more. In addition to autonomous crop management, the startup’s system oversees the control and maintenance operations of the solar fields providing agRE.tech with its sustainable energy source, and the capacity to earn additional revenue from surplus energy.