iFarm (intellectual Farms Oy) today announced that is has been accepted into the NVIDIA Inception program as a community member.

iFarm creates technologies which are used in automated urban vertical farming, as well as software for remote production control. iFarm automated vertical farms enable all year round urban growing of fresh vegetables, berries and greens.

"We are glad to be joining the NVIDIA Inception program. As an Inception member, iFarm will receive NVIDIA DLI credits, and will be trained by AI experts. It will greatly benefit iFarm development, especially in the area of computer vision and machine learning," — said Oleg Kostenko, iFarm product director.

The NVIDIA Inception program nurtures cutting-edge AI startups who are revolutionizing industries. This virtual accelerator offers go-to-market support, expertise, and technology for program members through deep learning training, exclusive Inception events, GPU discounts, and more.

iFarm automated vertical farms enable all year round urban growing of fresh vegetables, berries and greens. The company develops an automated control system of distributed farms network. It is Integrated SaaS-solution, that 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. The system constantly updated agrotechnical maps of crops, monitors plants' condition, provides cost optimization, makes demand forecast and sales reports. In several facilities (2000 sq.m.) built in 2 years we are growing about 40 crops. Farms in Finland, Latvia and Lithuania (9000+ sq.m.) are under construction and in engineering design process, negotiations about launching new farms are underway in various places of the world. iFarm offices are located in Helsinki and in Moscow, 8 laboratories are in Novosibirsk. Our company is planning to build vertical farms of 1 million sq.m. area using iFarm technology around the world and to grow 200 crops.

11.02.2020