Your crop Strategy, Precisely Executed with Autonomous Climate & Irrigation Control
Crop Controller supports your decisions. Every day.
Enabling sustainable growth in global horticulture
As the world’s population grows, so does the demand for greenhouse grown healthy and safe food. However, the greenhouse horticulture industry faces challenges due to an increase of cost and a shortage of crop experts.
At Blue Radix, we meet these challenges head-on with AI-driven solutions that act as a digital brain for your greenhouse. Our technology, called Crop Controller, manages climate and irrigation autonomously on behalf of the grower. Crop Controller ensures precise and predictable, high-quality crop production with fewer manual decisions and lower resource usage.
Applied in Four Major Crops
Crop Controller is applicable to four of the most important fruiting vegetables in greenhouse horticulture.
The system follows the unique strategy of the grower and adapts to the specific growth dynamics of each crop – from evaporation to light response – and adjusts control accordingly, in every possible climate condition.
Tomato
From cluster to cherry tomatoes, cultivation requires a constant balance between light, temperature, humidity, and irrigation. Crop Controller automatically maintains this balance, keeping the climate stable and the plant active. Growers experience fewer RH peaks and more peace of mind in the greenhouse, even with lighting.
Cucumber
A crop with short cycles and high productivity. Crop Controller’s irrigation module ensures precise water and EC control, aligned with the current growth rhythm. The result: active crops and fewer fluctuations in growth and fruit setting.
Bell pepper
Pepper cultivation shows large daily fluctuations in evaporation and energy use. The software finely tunes ventilation, pipe heating, and screen control. It filters crop growth and harvest data from the weighing gutter for accurate irrigation, making it easier to manage multiple compartments simultaneously.
Eggplant
Eggplants respond strongly to temperature and light distribution. Crop Controller helps maintain a steady growth pace and prevent stress moments, with climate control that considers crop load and plant activity. This keeps fruit quality consistent, even during rapid growth phases.
Crop Controller: Four Modules, One Autonomous Solution
Autonomous Climate Control
- Assimilation lighting planning
- Temperature control with RTR
- Humidity management
- Setpoints for heating, ventilation & energy screens
Autonomous Irrigation Control
- Water uptake, drain, EC & drying
- Monitoring via substrate weighing scales
- Optimal timing & setpoints for irrigation, shot size & radiation sum
Strategy Optimization
- Crop planning & registration
- Plant energy balance
- Production forecasts based on growth data
Personal Support
- Continuous monitoring
- Bi-weekly support calls
- Crop quality reports & expert advice
- 24/7 chat support
- Access to the Knowledge Hub
Leading the Way in Autonomous Climate & Irrigation Control
Our flagship solution, Crop Controller, uses advanced algorithms to fully automate climate and irrigation decisions, on a 5-minute level, tailored to your unique crop strategy.
- Continuously forecasting, adapting and anticipating up to 72-hour ahead
- Increase profit with higher yields while lowering resource cost by up to 15%
- Reduce manual climate computer work by up to 80%
- Manage up to 4x more hectares
- Improve consistency, efficiency, and work-life balance
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Award-Winning Innovation
Recognized for its impact, Blue Radix won 10 awards, among them the prestigious GreenTech Innovation Award in 2024 for Autonomous Climate & Irrigation Control with Crop Controller. Reinforcing our leading role in autonomous growing, worldwide. It’s not just automation, it’s intelligent, adaptive control that helps growers scale sustainably.
Trusted by growers worldwide
"We can now manage 20 instead of 5 hectares. A win-win for team and company."
Marion van Gog
Van Gog Kwekerijen, the Netherlands
"AI is my friend. It realizes the right crop strategy, giving me more peace of mind."
Arie van der Giessen
Village Farms, USA
"Crop Controller makes working in horticulture increasingly attractive to more young people."
Hidde Preidel
RedStar, the Netherlands
"With Crop Controller, I expect to be able to control multiple locations by myself. As a company, we welcome that support.”
Martijn van der Giessen
The Valley, the Netherlands
"We had strong colorful plants and produced 5% more kilos per m² thanks to Crop Controller."
Karla Denisse Abundis
Bresca Hortalizas, Mexico
"With Crop Controller we manage more hectares with higher yields and fewer mistakes."
Theo van Noord
Noordhuys Tomatoes, the Netherlands
"Working with Crop Controller gives me the space and peace of mind to concentrate more on details."
Tom de Jong
Van Duijn de Jong, the Netherlands
"Our growers can focus on strategic decisions while the system continuously steers the greenhouse toward optimal result"
Jacques Demers
Les Productions Horticoles Demers, Canada
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Recently, Ridder and Blue Radix hosted an exclusive breakfast seminar in the Mexican city of Querétaro, bringing together a select group of greenhouse growers and industry professionals to explore the power of autonomous technology in horticulture.
The morning was filled with insights on how AI is already helping Mexican growers tackle labor shortages, save resources such as water, energy, fertilizer and labor, while growing more consistently. With Ridder’s smart greenhouse solutions and Blue Radix’s autonomous Climate and Irrigation Control, attendees saw firsthand how innovation is driving real results.
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“Every irrigation shot counts: Crop Controller tunes into your crop’s natural rhythm”
Growers face daily decisions under pressure. Light intensity, outside temperature, humidity, drain levels—everything is constantly changing. And every irrigation decision has consequences. A single mistake can affect the root zone, nutrient uptake, and overall plant balance. This is exactly the complexity Crop Controller is designed to manage.