Exploring how data from sensors , satellites , and drone can be rein for digitalisation in gardening is the focussing of the Triple Thrive Data project , which waspresented at the horticultural business of Thomas Viehweg in Issum , close to the Dutch delimitation with Germany . The German - Dutch growers ' accommodative Paletti Growers initiated and back this labor . Invited by the Agropole Innovates projection , Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo , the municipality of Venray , and Agrobusiness Niederrhein invited the association to showcase their finding at the baby’s room in Issum .
From exit to right : John van Helden - Yookr , Yvonne van der Velden - Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo , Marcel Claus - Municipality of Venray , Thomas Viehweg - Gartenbau Viehweg , Wouter Middel - W2R Drone Projects , Eric Brouwers - Paletti Growers , Dr. Anke Schirocki - Agrobusiness Niederrhein , Lukas Viehweg - Gartenbau Viehweg
Triple Thrive Data aims to accumulate data to develop a data point - driven fascia for growers that enable prevision about , i.e. , flowering , disease occurrence , or nutrient deficiencies . The system watch from the past and prefigure the time to come . " We apply stilted intelligence to make horticulture more sustainable , as it aids in prevent failures , operate more expeditiously , and save up on water , fertilizers , and crop protection production , profit the environment , " explains John van Helden , director of the Dutch company Yookr , which importantly further developments in this arena .
Future predictions are still under development , but it is already potential to achieve remarkable result in plant cultivation with the economic consumption of smart detector . meeter were shown what is currently achievable . Thomas Viehweg has been using sensor and analysis systems from Yookr in his nursery in Issum for three class . The nursery utilizes twelve sensors that supervise grime moisture , temperature , nutrient content in the substrate , pH value , and , for exercise , the amount of fertilizer in the fertilizer armoured combat vehicle . Everything is displayed on a splashboard on a laptop .
The grower then sets the threshold values themselves : at what stage of substrate waterlessness should a plant life be watered ? How much fertilizer solution should be in the army tank before a admonition is display ? " base on our cultivation knowledge , we first determine the door values and then embark them into the electronic computer . From that minute , the nurseryman receives a notification as soon as tearing is needed or the fertiliser armoured combat vehicle needs fill again , " explains Thomas Viehweg .
His faculty immediately saw the benefits and did not ask to be convinced to use the arrangement . " Watering is much quicker , as this information significantly reduces the need for personal plant inspection , " says Patrick Meurisch , gardener and cultivator at Viehweg Nursery . " It also has a practical advantage : on Sundays , I first check my app , and if the plants are still moist enough , I can stay in bed an hr longer before I have to go to the nursery , " he reveals .
Wouter Middel from the Dutch company W2R Drone Projects reported on everything potential with drones . His employment is also part of the Triple Thrive Data labor . W2R Drone Projects aims to further get pilotless aircraft engineering science and optimize flying in , among other setting , greenhouses . They also offer the use of drones as a service . A drone can collect multispectral datum , thermal data , or image . This creates visual information , which is commonly unseeable to the human oculus . " you may apply the technology to tell how the works is feeling before it becomes visible . This way , you’re able to assess the wellness of the plant ahead of time on , " say Wouter Middel . He generate an example of a flight over a association football line of business . The images show signs of a fungous contagion . " However , nothing was visible to the naked eye . " The client was skeptical of the drone flight results and make up one’s mind not to work . The reliability of the drone flight results was show when , sometime later , big areas of the association football field became visibly taint , " Wouter adds .
As part of the Triple Thrive Data undertaking , the developments have also been try in a Dutch horticultural business for three year . " By using this engineering , we were able to save up to 21 % on water , fertilizers , and pesticide . That ’s already a fantastic resolution , " order John van Helden . " The next goal is to be able to display data and indicators on plant growth , real - meter photos , and game mathematical function in the splashboard from the 2d one-half of 2024 , " he adds .
New development are needed to make even better prognostication . The introduction has been laid ; now it ’s clock time to establish upon it . " We are already quite good at call harvests for tomatoes , " explains John van Helden , but for further evolution in , for example , ornamental horticulture , he need the practical experience of agriculturist . He collects their questions to feed the system with the necessary data . " German - Dutch collaboration proffer a mickle of potential that we , as agriculturist in the border region , must seize . " John van Helden and Thomas Viehweg are convinced of this and also mention to the successful cooperation between German and Dutch raiser in the Paletti Growers electronic web .
" We ’re investing in our hereafter , " harmonize the visitant . Yvonne van der Velden , Business Developer at Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo , recognizes the grandness of these developments . " AI is the future , also in horticulture . As a partner in the Interreg project Agropole Innovates , our finish is to advance such developments in the border region through noesis transfer , networking , and pioneer projects . We will proceed to succeed the theme of this get together with stake , " she states .
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