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Post by account_disabled on Dec 24, 2023 9:37:55 GMT
This year the World Economic Forum named plant wearables a top technologies of for their potential to improve agriculture. This is precisely what some commercial growers and startups are trying to use them for. Wearables for plants Few places take crops more seriously than The Netherlands. Their greenhouses can look more like microchip fabrication plants than garden centres. Thats certainly true of Tomatoworld an sq m sq ft hightech research greenhouse facility in Honselersdijk Holland where the gardeners wear lab coats. If you could see how we produce tomatoes now. says Ab van Marrjewik who has made his living as a tomato grower for years. That can be a hard task at scale tomatoes require particular Mobile App Development Service temperatures and to grow need to avoid stresses. Tomatoworld is trialling a cuttingedge technology a kind of EEG for tomatoes. The technology called PhytlSigns made by Vivent a plant technology business based in Switzerland uses the plant equivalent of an implanted brain electrode to listen to the signals in the stem. Together with deep learning algorithms trained on the plant electrical signalling literature this system forms the basis of a kind of planttoEnglish translator.
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