Our team recently had the privilege of attending the Eureka Global Innovation Summit (GIS) 2022, in Estoril. There we were treated to an inspiring event, which laid out Portugal’s vision for a greener, digital and healthier planet, underpinned by new transatlantic collaborations and focusing on the key areas of Tech for Green, digital transition, and strategy and policy-making.
The summit organiser, Eureka, is the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation, with a presence in over 45 countries. And, in that spirit of international cooperation, we have now entered into discussions with one of the companies to whom we were introduced at Estoril.
Food4Sustainability (F4S) CoLAB is a non-profit association exploring sustainable, climate-resilient regenerative and circular systems in food production, targeting carbon neutrality throughout the production cycle, and supporting a shift toward healthier and more efficient practices through education around consumption, and the use of innovative and accessible new technologies, including remote sensing, IoT and digitalisation, and software development and data integration.
With our experience and expertise in these key areas and an appreciation for the goals that F4S are working so hard to achieve, we were keen to develop the relationship, while F4S were quick to recognise the potential associated with introducing our technologies to their current project portfolio. In addition to deploying our range of innovative portable analysers, we are particularly excited by the opportunity to roll out our recently developed Agrolight™ crop monitoring app, which delivers up-to-date Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) images to a smartphone or tablet via an intuitive, user-friendly interface, for plots as small as 1ha, to track crop health, improve decision making and maximise yields.
It is the combination of IoT field and remote sensing data which stands to play a key role in achieving precision agriculture capable of maximising productivity and minimising loss in a resource-efficient and sustainable way. With F4S and Hexsor working together, the vision of truly sustainable global food production may be that little bit closer.
