GreenPeak Powers Wireless Greenhouse of the Future

GreenPeak Technologies, has announced that Kronos has selected GreenPeak’s low-power wireless mesh networking technology for one of their wireless terminals. Hortimax, a Kronos VAR (value added reseller), is active in greenhouse harvesting management systems.

In one of their projects, a harvest administration system is used to monitor the activity and location of individual mobile harvesting carts. This solution is based on the Kronos wireless terminal and uses GreenPeak’s wireless mesh technology to transmit data from individual mobile harvesting carts to routers, which enables the data to be gathered and analyzed in a central coordinator unit. The wireless technology allows the monitoring of individual pickers’ efficiency.

The ability to track which areas have been harvested and how much has been picked also enables greenhouse operators to quickly implement corrections in spraying and fertilizing patterns and scheduling, thereby allowing for a richer harvest. GreenPeak claims the system can also improve other greenhouse logistics such as scheduling of the packaging unit and just-in-time transportation to market.