Phenospex updates PlantEye, gears up for future projects
“We have a new documentation tool that's coming out in August,” said Phenospex' Grégoire Hummel. “The app will make it so that you can run the PlantEye software on any machine, like a tablet or a smartphone, you just need a browser.” The change will make the system more accessible to a wider swath of growers, and Hummel said that while the system is a finished product, they will continue to make adjustments to make it easier for growers to measure plant growth and tie that to climate conditions within the greenhouse.
“Phenospex is also working on color detection so growers will be able to compare the change in color for their plants,” said Hummel. While the benefits of such an upgrade are obvious for ornamental growers, Hummel noted that a rapid change in color is often indicative of plant disease, so analyzing color data can help growers prevent damage to crops. But overall, the improvement will help growers better monitor all aspects of plant growth.
Those improvements should help Phenospex expand the places where their product is deployed. While a bad winter caused many growers to postpone upgrades to their greenhouses, the number of PlantEye systems installed has still risen from about 15 to about 30 since the start of the year, and Hummel said they have several exciting projects coming up.
“We have many systems installed in research facilities, but we're about to install a system for a large commercial grower, and we have another big project that involves multiple PlantEye systems,” said Hummel. “We're also licensing our technology to a mushroom grower so he can adapt it for mushrooms, so things are going smoothly and in the right direction for us.”
For more information:
Phenospex
Grégoire Hummel
Tel: +31 457111693
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www.phenospex.com