Farming - Yokne'am Illit, , Israel
ViewNetic is an AgTech startup developing unique imaging and machine learning technologies for early, pre-propagation detection of pests and diseases in high-value crops.During the crop growing season, inspection for pests and diseases in greenhouses is carried out weekly by inspectors who manually sample less than 20% of the greenhouse area while walking 8 hours a day. Consequently, due to the limited coverage, out of an abundance of caution, growers tend to spray 100% of the greenhouse when pests or diseases are detected, leading to over- spraying and its resultant higher costs and greater negative impact on the environment and the food we eat.The greenhouse crop growing market seeks an automatic AI-driven Integrated Pests & Disease Management ("IPM") system providing early detection and automatic treatment materials delivery to the affected areas, and thus reducing pesticides and labor costs and improve the historically thin profit margins.Our Solution and Technology Highlights:• Provide growers with high throughput high-resolution inspection, decision support and mapping.• Develop the first system for tracking the location and effectiveness of biological control agent treatment.• Detect pests and diseases at the earliest stages of development.• Provide mapping of suspect areas and targets to enable delivery of spot-specific treatment.• Enable reduction in chemical and labor costs, increase productivity, while meeting increasingly strict chemical residue regulations.