AGROFOCAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC — Department of Agriculture SBIR Phase II: 8.13

Description

Agrofocal has developed a crop monitoring system that can be mounted on any moving farmvehicle. The entire process of collecting the images and operating on those images to extract theinsights is done on the vehicle itself in real-time eliminating the time-consuming process ofuploading images to a central server for processing.The system be completely owned andoperated by the grower themselves without requiring the involvement of the company providingthe technology. This affordable easy to use technology provides the farmer a flexible monitoringschedule reduced labor costs and crop yield prediction. Agrofocal succesfully developed thesystem during Phase I for farm operations. During Phase II the team will conduct field trials toassess the systems ability to determine crop yield and accuracy while monitoring operationalrobustness. In addition the team will evaluate and refine the AI models based on the field trialdata. Succesful completion of the Phase II objectives will set the stage from product launch andcommercialization. Our technology overcomes the limitations of offline monitoring and willbenefit growers shippers crop advisors companies and industry consortiums by providingaffordable real time monitoring of crops to predict yield and identify area of concern within thefields.Our project advances the goals of Topic 8.13 Plant Production and Protection(Engineering).