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Business challenge<\/h2>\n

Our client is Europe\u2019s leading AgriTech advisory company that provides guidance and technological innovations to farmers. One of their key customer segments is growers and agribusinesses from the Europe, Africa, and Middle East (EAME) region who rely on indoor farming solutions for growing crops due to severe climate conditions.<\/p>\n

In the past, EAME customers manually collected greenhouse data and provided it to our client in Excel files for further analysis and recommendations. This type of data collection required a lot of manual work from growers, which resulted in delayed recommendations. This was problematic for EAME customers because any issues with indoor climate conditions require a fast response in order to avoid harming crops. Our client decided to provide a convenient way for growers to aggregate data from greenhouses faster using a web-based smart greenhouse application.<\/p>\n

To develop an automated greenhouse system for monitoring greenhouses and subsequently giving accurate and fast recommendations to EAME agribusinesses and growers, our client needed a partner to support their additional R&D activities.<\/p>\n

Having worked with Intellias on a wide range of agriculture software development<\/a> projects, our client entrusted us with developing from scratch an automated greenhouse web app to accelerate data aggregation for easier greenhouse management, analytics, and growing recommendations.<\/p>\n

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Solution delivered<\/h2>\n

We started development of a web app for convenient indoor farm monitoring and management<\/a> by gathering requirements to solve the specific needs of EAME growers. During user research, we recognized the need to automatically insert collected data from new greenhouse monitoring software right into our client\u2019s unified farm management platform<\/a> as well as to share data among growers to accelerate response to climate changes, improve seed development, and find optimal conditions for crop growth.<\/p>\n

Our automated greenhouse system for monitoring indoor farms aggregates the following data on micro-climate conditions and timing that influence the growth of crops:<\/b><\/p>\n