Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2021 Nominee

Sustainable food production in modern cities


Description

Great system to grow food automatically in places where people are living. Technology of vertical farming. sofwtare and hardware. iFarm innovation is in technology, we are combining together all modern hardware and software developments and researches. iFarm hardware may fit room in house, and industrial size from 20 to 20,000 sq meters. iFarm system planting without pesticides, giving clean and tasty ecological food the whole year round. iFarm SaaS-solution is based on a wide range of modern technologies such as IoT-sensors and controllers, robotic irrigation, planting and harvesting systems, blockchain technology, computer vision and machine learning. It helps to plant automatically and accurately, maximizing workload, issues clear instructions to plant breeders on planting care and monitors the progress of daily agricultural and technical work, provides tools for online monitoring of climate and production on farms, allows to get a predicted crop at a given time and significantly reduces the burden on farm staff. iFarm innovation is in user interaction methods, when consumers are not obliged to know how crops are growing, rather just deciding what they want to grow and push one button on their PCs. iFarm system is easy to use, economically feasible and truly universal, giving a possibility to grow almost anything due to self-educational technology and a lot of agrotechnical maps of crops inside. iFarm is constantly working on adding new agrotechnical maps of crops, having more than 120 by the date and adding 20 more each month. iFarm system is also flexible and allow to change personal characteristics of food by defining climate in totally controlled indoor environment by the wishes of customers. iFarm innovation in business model, when we go to all customers groups same time, with help of partners, providing them our IP how to build and giving our software as service to both customers and other farm builders. We are building new markets for us we selves.

Project website

https://ifarm.fi/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
  • AL C7. E-agriculture 2021
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 2: Zero hunger
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • Eastern Europe
  • Western Europe and North America

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2018

End date

Not set


Replicability

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Sustainability

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WSIS values promotion

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Entity name

iFarm

Entity country—type

Finland Private Sector

Entity website

https://ifarm.fi/