Category 5 – Food loss and waste / Food safety and traceability
Category 3 – Agriculture innovations systems and sustainable farming

Pixofarm is a digital solution, which empowers fruit producers worldwide to get the most out of their orchards by providing reliable yield monitoring and forecast data. With these data, they can increase their production and efficiently plan and optimize their operational activities like logistics, packaging, warehousing, sales and marketing. All they need to do is taking pictures of a certain number of fruits and trees with their smartphones. We use artificial intelligence, machine learning, image processing technology as well as satellite data to accurately measure and count fruits and calculate forecasts. By digitalizing manual processes like fruit counting and fruit measurement and using state-of-the-art technologies, they can know in advance, which quality classes they are going to have at the end of the season, they can market them correctly and decrease food waste. And they can benefit from all these advantages without any investment in infrastructure or any hardware devices. All they need is their smartphone.

https://pixofarm.com

• Austria
• Spain

• Indigenous and nomadic peoples
• The unemployed
• Remote and rural communities

We have developed a technology that empowers growers to use their smartphone as a measurement tool to precisely measure and count fruits on trees. It gives them flexibility and digitalizes many manual processes and no investment in expensive hardware devices is required. They can have a smart solution immediately in their pocket! It is very complicated to develop such a noise-resistant solution that works on all smartphones in the market, having in mind different operating systems, sensor sizes, camera specifications, different lightings, etc. We also fetch in data from different sources (Satellite weather data, etc.) and make use of the advantages of big data and machine learning to give them most accurate results possible.

Through our innovative technology, we digitalize manual, time-consuming and inefficient processes like counting and measuring fruits. We also replace the inaccurate guessing of growth rate and harvest by reliable forecasts based on different data sources. Based on this information, growers can make better decisions, use their resources more efficiently and influence their harvest during the season as well as adjust their plannings based on the forecasts, so that they can increase the harvest quality and reduce waste.

21. E-agriculture Ensure the systematic dissemination of information using ICTs on agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, forestry and food, in order to provide ready access to comprehensive, up-to-date and detailed knowledge and information, particularly in rural areas. Public-private partnerships should seek to maximize the use of ICTs as an instrument to improve production (quantity and quality).