Creating A Digital Twin of Your Farm - Part Three

This is Tim Hammerich of the Ag Information Network with your Farm of the Future Report.

To manage risk while making the best possible management decisions on the farm, agtech company Source.ag wants to help growers create a digital twin of their fields. CEO Rien Kamman says the company tries to make the process as simple as possible.

Kamman… “The key word here is a cost efficient, scalable way of doing this. You want to find a way that doesn't cost you millions and millions to actually measure the state of the plant. You want to do it in a way that is cost efficient, scalable, and you can actually do with very minimal investments In terms of capex. We build a platform that is open in terms of APIs. We connect to climate computers and sensors, and all of the different sources that you might already have. It's also very easy to add sensors. We don't have our own hardware or sensors, but you can connect our platform to more or less any sensor that's out there. Then for the plant, we developed a very innovative mobile app that growers use on an iPad to more or less create a digital copy of a sample of the plants. So if you have a hundred thousand plants, you don't need to measure all of them to get a signal. And we help determine what is the sample that you need to measure once or twice a week. And that gives us really valuable data on how to crop develops.”

That’s Source.Ag CEO Rien Kamman.