Most greenhouse lighting systems are losing yield to failures no one can see, and leaving energy savings uncaptured every day. Netvion adds an intelligence layer to the LED drivers already installed in your greenhouse — no new hardware, no rip-and-replace.
A driver runs at 60% of rated output for eleven days. No alarm fires. The grower sees a grey week, adjusts the climate settings, and moves on. The yield shortfall appears at harvest. By then, the window to act has long passed.
This pattern — silent degradation, delayed discovery, invisible loss — is one of the most common problems in commercially lit greenhouse production. It persists not because growers are inattentive, but because the tools to catch it in time simply haven't existed.
Netvion, based in Eindhoven, has built a platform that connects directly to the LED drivers and sensors already installed in the greenhouse, transforming them into a system that monitors itself, manages energy costs automatically, and explains every decision to the grower in plain language.
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Connects to what you already have
The platform connects to existing DALI and Modbus-compatible LED drivers over the greenhouse LAN — no hardware changes required. It integrates with existing greenhouse climate systems via the standard HLP lighting protocol, meaning it works alongside the infrastructure the grower already operates rather than replacing it.
The platform runs on a standard PC on-site. All crop schedules, driver logs, and historical data stay within the grower's own network. For operations with multiple sites, optional cloud connectivity is available — but the system works fully without it.
Every zone hitting its DLI target, every day
Consistent Daily Light Integral delivery is the most direct lever a grower has on crop performance. A DLI shortfall of 10 to 15% — sustained over several overcast days — is enough to affect fruit set weight, delay development, and create visible uniformity differences at harvest. The damage accumulates quietly before it becomes visible.
Netvion tracks PPFD continuously across every zone and adjusts supplemental output automatically to keep each zone on its daily target. When natural light falls short, the system compensates by precisely the required amount. When natural light is stronger than expected, it pulls supplemental output back — avoiding unnecessary energy spend.
Grower-defined crop boundaries — minimum PPFD floor, stress ceiling, daily DLI target — are hard constraints. The system will not cross them regardless of any other decision it is making. The crop is always protected first.
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Cutting energy costs without cutting light
Electricity is the largest variable cost for most supplementally lit operations in the Netherlands. For a greenhouse running 1 MW of LED lighting on a spot or day-ahead contract, the daily price spread on the Dutch market regularly exceeds €80 to €120 per MWh between the cheapest and most expensive hours.
Netvion's Smart Energy module reads the next day's hourly price forecast each afternoon and builds a lighting schedule that concentrates intensity in cheaper hours and reduces it during expensive peaks — while keeping the crop's daily DLI target fully intact. Shifting 1.5 hours of full-intensity load from peak to low-price periods saves roughly €100 to €165 on a typical high-spread day. Across the 80 to 100 days per season where the price difference is significant, that compounds to €10,000 to €16,000 per hectare per year — without any reduction in what the crop receives.
For growers on real-time or 15-minute settlement contracts, the system also responds to intraday price spikes, reducing load within the grower's defined flex band and recovering the DLI later when prices fall. Every action is visible to the grower in a live timeline, with a one-click override at any point.
© Netvion The crop gets its light. The grower chooses when — and at what cost.
Finding the failure before the crop does
The platform logs internal temperature, output power, per-channel intensity, and fault codes for every driver in the network — continuously, across a rolling three-year history.
Critically, the system tracks trajectories, not just active faults. A driver running at 63°C when its rated maximum is 70°C is not yet failed — but statistically, it is significantly more likely to fail within the coming weeks. Catching that pattern early and scheduling a replacement during a planned maintenance window costs a fraction of an emergency call-out, and eliminates the yield risk entirely.
For a greenhouse with 200 or more drivers, the question is not whether some will fail unexpectedly in a given year. It is whether the grower finds out when it happens — or weeks later at harvest.
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An expert in the greenhouse, around the clock
Greenhouse problems don't follow office hours. When something looks wrong at 05:00 on a Sunday — a zone that seems behind, a driver behaving differently, an energy decision that doesn't feel right — the grower is usually alone with whatever information their climate system can surface.
The Netvion AI engine changes that. It works with live data from the grower's own greenhouse — real sensor readings, real driver logs, real energy prices — and answers questions in plain Dutch or English. Not generic guidance. Specific answers about specific zones.
The AI engine reasons across lighting, energy, and climate data simultaneously — something that typically requires three different specialists to piece together manually. It does not replace an agronomist. But it means the grower is never without a starting point, and never discovers a problem only when it is already too late to act.
© Netvion Every automated decision the system makes can be seen, understood, and overridden by the grower. Transparency is built in, not optional.
Where the platform is today
Netvion is deployed at commercial greenhouse operations in the Netherlands across a range of crop types and facility sizes.
The company is currently expanding its grower network — particularly with operations on spot or day-ahead electricity contracts, and those running modern 0-10V, Digital Dimming and DALI LED drivers.
For more information:
Netvion
+31 613921828
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www.netvion.io
