Sustainable and Profitable
The main challenge of precision agriculture is to fulfil the food demands of a constantly growing population while protecting the economical, ecological, and social resources. Controlled-environment agriculture (CEA), such as vertical farming or greenhouses, addresses this challenge by maximizing crop production in reduced areas using automatic or semi-automatic processes under controlled conditions. Our intelligent platform PLANTAR combines proximal sensing, robotics, and artificial intelligence for selecting the optimal environmental parameters (light, humidity, temperature) and the best irrigation and fertigation strategies for each individual plant, maximizing sustainability while reducing costs.