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Video | Microsoft promotes collaboration with Blue Radix in international video
In April, an American film crew of 8 flew to the Netherlands to record a video on behalf of Microsoft about Blue Radix. Microsoft is partner of Blue Radix and helps us to ensure a robust, secure and scalable IT-landscape for our worldwide customers. The video was launched on July 19th during the worldwide Microsoft Inspire event for their global partner network. Watch the video here.
Blog | Energy crisis: anticipating with algorithms
Many companies have been hit hard by the soaring energy prices caused by the war in Ukraine and the energy transition. This requires continuous consideration of crop data, weather data and costs. Rudolf de Vetten describes in his blog how algorithms are able to make these trade-offs continuously and perform the right actions 24/7. This way growers can achieve optimal control of the climate much more precisely per department, resulting in significantly less energy waste.
“Autonomous growing enables growth of Mexican Greenhouse industry”
Bresca, a tomato producing greenhouse company in Puebla, Mexico, uses Crop Controller to realize autonomous growing. The company that produces tomatoes for Mastronardi Sunset wants to achieve better control over daily operations and improve predictability. Manuel Valdes Lara, partner at the greenhouse company, talks about his experiences and how the AI system adapts to the specific weather conditions in Mexico.
Computable Awards 2022 | Vote for Crop Controller: best digital innovation
Computable, the platform for ICT professionals, will be presenting the Computable Awards for the seventeenth time in a row on 5 October 2022. We are proud to announce that Crop Controller has been nominated in the category best digital innovation – the only company with a nomination focused on innovation in greenhouse horticulture! Do you also want more recognition for the innovative power of greenhouse horticulture? Then vote for Crop Controller. How? Read on.
“Autonomous Growing is helping us to achieve more”
How do you react when new technology is introduced in your field of work? Autonomous Growing is about applying AI to control climate, irrigation, and energy management in greenhouses. How do Crop Consultants see these developments, and new data era? And how does it effect their work?
GreenTech: insights in approach & value of Autonomous Growing
From 14-16 June visitors of GreenTech Amsterdam can discover the latest innovations in worldwide horticulture technology. AI (Artificial Intelligence) and algorithms are becoming increasingly important in greenhouses. Smart AI solutions, robotics and autonomous greenhouses are therefore rightly receiving a great deal of attention. Blue Radix is one of the innovative exhibitors at GreenTech. You can meet us in Hall 5, booth 05.212. Do we see you there?
Autonomous growing explained in 1,5 minute
AI and algorithms are becoming increasingly important in greenhouse horticulture. The value is becoming clearer and growers are embracing the technology, step-by-step.
This short animation explains how autonomous growing and autonomous energy management works in greenhouses worldwide. It’s more than data driven growing. The grower’s unique crop strategy is realized autonomously with AI.
Dutch algorithms at GreenTech Americas
Blue Radix, specialist in autonomous growing, was one of the 2 winners of the GreenTech Americas challenge. GreenTech Americas was held from April 27 to 29, 2022, at the Congress Center, Querétaro Mexico. Blue Radix won a flight ticket to Mexico and a booth and presentation at the show.
Meet Victor, the virtual grower at Floriade
The rapid growth of greenhouses feeding and greening our world is not matched by the number of professional growers. Who will operate these greenhouses in the near future? At the international Horticultural World Expo Floriade in Almere, you can meet Victor, the virtual grower. Victor shows you how Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions help managing autonomous greenhouses: enabling growers to oversee more hectares and realize higher yields. Virtual Victor was created by greenhouse technology providers Blue Radix, Gearbox and Ridder who joined forces.
Interview TOP: ‘AI allows grower to focus on strategy and innovation’
Blue Radix is nominated for the Horticultural Business Award 2022: namely the Theme Award Robotization and Data-Driven Horticulture. In preparation for the award ceremony on 21 April, the organization wrote an interview and made a video about Blue Radix.
Rijk Zwaan autonomous growing trial delivers confidence
Rijk Zwaan and Blue Radix have undertaken a joint initiative for a unique production comparison with autonomous growing. Implementing artificial intelligence (AI) in Rijk Zwaan’s seed production process has many advantages. The comparison across two departments created a major opportunity to demonstrate the value of autonomous growing in a production situation. In this article Josephine van Eggelen (on photo), Production Development Specialist and Grower Maikel van den Berg of MR Seeds, among others, talk about their goals, experiences and the advantages of working with Crop Controller.
Predict and control water supply with autonomous irrigation
In 2021, Blue Radix’s product development team delivered Crop Controller, the market’s first commercial solution for autonomous growing. The team continues to build and work on more modules to further expand autonomous growing with Crop Controller. Here Peter Goudswaard, Product Developer, and Csaba Balla-Somogyi, a graduate student at Blue Radix and MSc student at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), tell the story. Peter explains the challenges in developing the new irrigation module, while Csaba describes his related graduation project at Blue Radix.