Gardin's advanced sensors reveal plant health insights

Added on 24 August 2023

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Gardin's advanced sensors reveal plant health insights

“Everyone is measuring the soil, air, humidity, and temperature except for the product itself; the actual plant. Having worked in tech for a very long time, this made no sense to me at all, as decisions were made without having actual product-based metrics,” says Sumanta Talukdar, Founder and CEO of Gardin, a UK agritech company that’s focusing on plant health via their proprietary sensing platform.

“I started Gardin to help CEA growers measure what they’re actually growing at scale. Our solution exists of a patented remote Chlorophyll Fluorescence (ChF) sensor which is linked to the cloud, collects real data on the crop at a huge scale, and shares the insights with the grower to really know what’s going on within the plants,” Sumanta adds.

Knowing the heartbeat of the plant

The Gardin platform has been designed to operate at scale at commercial greenhouses. The sensor is set up in under 10 seconds, after which it operates autonomously. Measurements can be taken by the sensor from up to 3m away, it can measure the entire canopy, including through its height, and take 100s of measurements per hour.