Agri-tech consulting

Sagentia Innovation has a long history of developing cost-effective sensors across a range of industries. Our experience ranges from condition monitoring of farm equipment to measuring the health of animals in the field to crops in the silo. The aim is always to provide actionable insights and decision support for farm operations.

A pressing need across the agriculture sector is solving labour shortages, reducing costs, and increasing efficiency. Autonomy and automation is often regarded as the technology solution to that challenge. Our role is to de-risk these developments, to ensure that the human perspective is not lost, and to deliver the right technology solution. We have delivered this in the factory for manufacturing process improvement, in the field for precision spraying, tillage and harvesting, and in the dairy.

In agriculture, doing more with less is always a strong driver. Our role is to provide solutions that increase productivity through pinpointed resource use. For example, precision spraying – Our vision systems are key, but our knowledge of fluidic control is also critical, to minimise risk from factors such as drift, dripping, etc.

Our sustainability practice in agri-tech starts with understanding the regulatory drivers and then moves to practical implementation in the farm and the factory. There is a lot of industry talk about sustainability, but we sort the wheat from the chaff, using a science-based approach to deliver practical solutions to sustainable challenge.

Monitoring and sensing solutions always require timely insights to be delivered to the farmer. This requires a deep understanding of how best to predict the impact of any corrective action. We use an appropriate mixture of classical algorithms, empirical guidelines, and machine learning / AI. Sometimes that can be achieved through cloud-based architectures, but our edge-processing capabilities mean that can be delivered at the point-of-need, no matter how remote.