Blue Radix provides AI-driven solutions, specifically the Crop Controller, to manage greenhouse climate and irrigation autonomously. This technology executes precise crop strategies, leading to predictable, high-quality production while reducing resource consumption. The system aims to increase grower profit through higher yields and significantly lower manual climate management workload.
Funding
$5.5M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Greenhouse horticulture faces increasing demands for food production, but a shortage of crop experts limits growers' ability to optimize climate control, manage resources efficiently, and scale their operations effectively. Traditional methods require constant manual adjustments based on data analysis, consuming valuable time and potentially leading to suboptimal growing conditions.
Solution
Blue Radix offers algorithm-based autonomous growing solutions designed to optimize climate control and crop management in greenhouses. Their flagship product, Crop Controller, uses AI to automate daily decisions and actions, enabling growers to manage up to four times more hectares while increasing operational profit and reducing resource usage. Crop Controller integrates with existing climate computers to execute unique crop strategies by processing data and optimizing outcomes on a 5-minute level, 24/7. The system also incorporates a Strategy Optimizer module that combines climate and crop planning, climate and irrigation steering, and production reports and outlooks into a single platform.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes greenhouse growers looking to optimize their crop strategies, increase operational efficiency, and reduce resource consumption through autonomous climate and irrigation control.
Features
- AI-driven system for autonomous climate and irrigation control in greenhouses
- Integration with existing climate computers via API for seamless data exchange
- Strategy Optimizer module for climate and crop planning, monitoring, and short-term outlooks
- Energy Balance Module to track energy usage and identify surpluses or deficits
- Crop Registration Module for logging crop development parameters
- Ability to reuse best practices from previous crop cycles across different locations
- Continuous data analysis to execute grower's strategy and ensure optimized results
- Support from Autonomous Greenhouse Managers for onboarding and ongoing guidance