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bioClass® Hyperspectral Technology - Ensuring SUSTAINABILITY through HIGH YIELD in the Food Sector
bioClass® a non-contact non-destructive Artificial Intelligence driven chemical fingerprint machine vision technology, the most advanced solution in the world.
Reducing Food Waste.
Reducing Hunger.
Reducing Energy Waste.
Reducing Packaging Waste.
Ensuring Food Security.
Ensuring Consumer Protection from Natural and Criminal Food Security Threats.
Ensuring a Sustainable Future for Our Children’s Children.
YIELD
FOOD SECURITY &
SUSTAINABILITY
1bioClass® Improving yield in every step of the agricultural process from seed to post harvest.
bioClass® SEED PHENOTYPING – ENSURING EVERY SEED PRODUCES THE HIGHEST YIELD
bioClass® hyperspectral technology solutions coupled with machine learning, capture a plethora of information about each seed, and grades them through validated knowns, we teach our system to recognise each seeds chemical fingerprint to detect and automatically sort only high yield seeds. Seed producers are then not packing and shipping potentially underperforming seeds to growers in turn optimising their packaging and supply chain resources.
bioClass® PLANT PHENOTYPING – INCREASING YIELD – VERTICAL FARMING GREENHOUSE AND NURSERIES
Many factors can influence plant and plant fruit yield, bioClass® hyperspectral technology with its inbuilt indices can monitor the young plants growth, seeing the unseen by the human eye detecting over or under irrigation through water stress in the plant, under or over fertilisation. Monitoring plant health and even early detection of infestation can lead to ensuring only the healthiest of plants are cultivated to ensure the highest of yields.
UAV REMOTE SENSING OF CROPS - INCREASING YIELD – EARLY DETECTION OF INFESTATION
Plant stress quickly reducing yield caused by over or under irrigation or fertilisation are a few areas our UAV mounted turnkey hyperspectral technology can detect. In addition, plant stresses can also indicate infestation of insects that can rapidly destroy whole crops. Early detection and treatment are a key factor of the food security circle. Our Turnkey systems include as standard the following vegetative indices.
FOOD FRAUD – bioClass® AUTOMATING CRIMINAL ACTIVITY DETECTION AND ENSURING CONSUMER SAFETY
It is estimated consumers will be spending 15-30% of their total household income on food in the very near future. All due to war, changing climate and escalating energy costs. With these cost increases, in parallel so too we will see the increase of food fraud. For manufacturers focused on controlling costs therefor maintaining their market share. This is the time to implement anti-food-fraud technology.
bioClass® hyperspectral technology solutions help our customers combat food fraud by seeing the unseen such as modified vanilla pods to increase their value, or the coffee industry seeing Arabica beans being adulterated with the lower cost Robusta beans, to name but a few. We have seen horse meat and even meat unfit for human consumption treated with chemicals and illegally reintroduced into the human food supply chain. Automate and Control have developed non-contact non-destructive chemical fingerprint Artificial Intelligence driven solutions, the most advanced machine vision solutions in the world to combat these food security threats to our food supply chains.
SUSTAINABLE FOOD RECOVERY bioClass® SOLUTIONS
A huge and current threat to food security can be the very testing procedures set out to protect the consumer itself. As most food safety testing is expensive, time consuming and can only be carried out in labs. Daily whole container shipment are returned to their point of origin due to the failure of small samples to meet these criteria. The waste can be 40 tons plus in each shipment.
Automate and Control’s bioClass® systems can be implemented to automatically check and reject 100% of the shipment for toxin levels in nuts, mold in fruit including black mold on black fruit, ensuring healthy food doesn’t go to waste due to small, contaminated pockets of non-conforming materials. Early investment in this technology is reducing shipping, handling, food waste, hunger, energy consumption whilst ensuring consumer protection and food security protocols.
FOOD WASTE REDUCTION - CHANGING FOOD CATEGORY MODELS AT THE FARM & PROCESS PLANT
New findings are the first to calculate the level of food that goes uneaten in individual households. This waste has a clear economic impact, as well as effects on our health and the environment. Based on a recent study the average U.S. household wastes 31.9% of the food that its members obtain. Even the least wasteful household wastes 8.7% of the food it acquires.
bioClass® technology seeing the unseen, automatically detecting levels of food freshness the human eye or traditional vision systems cannot. This enables producers to only send the freshest unprocessed produce to the consumer ensuring the longest shelf life thus reducing household waste and all other associated waste, packaging, shipping, energy etc.
Once graded, produce that is perfect in quality but may not survive the supply chain can then be redirected into other long life uses for example chopped and frozen, or used in prepacked ready meals that go through the shelf life extending retort process.
Ensuring optimal food usage at point of process to guarantee long shelf life of the food we produce guarantees the reduction in food waste without consumer intervention.
bioClass® seeing the unseen. Next generation technology ensuring consumer, brand, and food security at every point of the food supply chain.
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