Trinity AgTech provides Sandy, a Smart Natural Capital Navigator that utilizes ISO-accredited analytics and a model-data fusion approach to measure and optimize carbon, biodiversity, and water quality on farms. This software enables agricultural businesses to accurately assess their natural capital, enhancing resilience and profitability while facilitating compliance with sustainability standards.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Agricultural businesses lack comprehensive tools to accurately measure and optimize their natural capital, including carbon, biodiversity, and water quality. Existing carbon calculators often lack credibility, especially for diverse farming systems and peatland measurement. This makes it difficult for farms to enhance resilience, improve profitability, and comply with evolving sustainability standards.
Solution
Trinity AgTech's Sandy is a Smart Natural Capital Navigator that provides agricultural businesses with a platform to measure, manage, and monetize their natural capital. Using ISO-accredited analytics and a model-data fusion approach, Sandy delivers credible carbon footprints alongside measurements of biodiversity and water protection. The platform enables whole-farm optimization by combining farming, environmental, and financial intelligence, allowing users to test and optimize management scenarios. Sandy also facilitates provenance reporting, input optimization, and access to natural capital markets, helping farms enhance business resilience and explore new income streams.
Target Audience
Sandy is designed for farms of all sizes and enterprises, including organic and conventional, arable and livestock, dairy and poultry, viticulture, and agroforestry operations.
Features
- ISO 14064 certified carbon calculator utilizing the latest scientific evidence and a model-data fusion approach
- Accurate measurement of carbon stored in upland and lowland peat
- Capability to measure soil carbon and natural capital for pasture-based farming systems
- Biodiversity accounting based on habitat and farm management practices
- Water protection strategy management, measuring the cost of agricultural inputs lost to waterways
- Predictive intelligence enabling users to test and optimize management scenarios
- Integration with farm management systems, including Gatekeeper and Muddy Boots
- Automatic generation of customized carbon, biodiversity, and water protection action plans