iFarm Growtune

All-in-one farm management software

iFarm Growtune — The Control Centre of your Vertical Farm

Running a vertical farm may seem tricky. That’s why we developed an application that enables you to manage your farm in a couple of clicks. The iFarm Growtune SaaS Platform contains knowledge sourced from hundreds of farming professionals — agronomists, plant health specialists, engineers, biologists, etc. — and helps you make smart decisions to achieve greater yields.

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Why Growtune?

COST-EFFECTIVE

Growing edible plants on a large scale can be complicated, as well as both technically and financially demanding. On top of that farm, owners face the challenge of hiring highly qualified staff whose salaries can constitute up to 60% of total expenditure.

By reducing the amount of work that needs to be done manually, iFarm helps to decrease labor costs by 20%, thus lowering the end cost of each kg of produce.

How do we achieve that? Our in-house team includes advanced specialists in crop science and agriculture, experienced managers, and the brightest software engineers.

Their expertise is available to all iFarm clients in the form of a library with plant growth recipes. Combined with iFarm’s set of online tools, it enables smooth management of vertical farms of all kinds.

INTELLIGENT

Big data collected from farms all over the world helps iFarm’s artificial intelligence (AI) to constantly improve its algorithms. It factors in data from IoT-devices, computer vision, as well as production and sales reports.

Monitors
lighting parameters, nutrient content and concentration, microclimate, plant growth rate, farm staff activities

Spots
inconsistencies in plant growth at an early stage

Optimises
plant growth recipes and net cost of produce

Alerts
about any deviations

AFFORDABLE

Subscription-based software
iFarm subscribers pay $ 0,75 — $ 1,5 a month for 1 m² of growing area to gain access to all iFarm Growtune features, ensuring better yield.

All maintenance emergencies are handled at no extra cost.
Our experienced technicians, agriculture and plant protection specialists have access to all operational data for any farm and will help to resolve any issue. They can log in remotely to check on environmental conditions, cameras monitoring the plants, checklists for growers, warehouse items, planting and shipment schedules, and more.

FLEXIBLE

Fully automated processes

Our cloud-based solution interacts with all the controllers and sensors at your farm remotely. The software manages numerous factors, including temperature, humidity, lighting and CO2, irrigation schedule, nutrient content and concentration.

Turnkey solution
As soon as you begin building a vertical farm with iFarm technology, the iFarm Growtune SaaS platform will be integrated into the automation system instantly.

For vertical farm owners
If you already have a vertical farm and use a third-party automation system, our specialists can audit its features and components, install missing equipment and connect your farm to iFarm Growtune.

Our SaaS platform supports most of the existing automation systems. We develop bespoke APIs which interact with the most commonly used sensors and controllers.

How does it work?

Step 1. Choose crops to grow

iFarm’s library of more than 158 plant growth recipes is continually updated with software algorithms and guides for growers, which are specifically created for vertical farms.

The plant growth recipes take into account the following vital parameters and procedures to ensure that every crop is carefully grown:

temperature, humidity, CO2*
Irrigation and fertigation schedule*
nutrient content and concentration*
lighting schedule*
growth cycles*
interactive plant care guides for farm staff

Required changes are applied automatically, depending on the planned plantings.

*

Step 2. Plan your planting

Choose the farm type, method of harvesting (automatic or manual) and the desired volume of end-product

The system offers planting and harvesting dates with consideration of current and forecasted use of farm capacities

If you manage more than one farm, Growtune can suggest how to manage planting across multiple locations

Step 3. Confirm your order

Automatically calculate the retail price of your products based on a library of recommended and seasonal prices

Select buyers from a catalogue of loyal customers quickly and efficiently

Create profiles for new clients

Confirm and place the order with the production site

Step 4. Manage your plantings

Allocate the planting to another client

Distribute the planting among multiple clients

Adjust harvesting dates

Move plantings

Detect and remove defective plants

Step 5. Monitor the production

Automatically generated plant care and farm maintenance guides and to-do lists

Available checklists with detailed instructions for every procedure

Task reminders

Track task execution, with detailed journaling of climate and environmental conditions

Create additional tasks when needed

Maintain complete control of farm environments with emergency alerts

Step 6. Plan the yield

Current and scheduled plantings are visually represented in a Gantt Chart

See the capacity utilisation of a production site in a detailed interactive plan for any given day

The plan contains up-to-date data about the vital farm metrics, such as shelf sizes, growing rack heights, growth cycles and the actual number of crops on the shelves

Step 7. Analyze

Yield and sales statistics by farm: planned/actual/defect, harvested/to harvest, area turnover, sales forecast/sold

Capacity statistics: vacant/planted areas, growing area, etc.

Crop statistics and potential: number of crops, plant types and varieties

Custom reports

A flexible set of widgets with informative visualisation of all key metrics:

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For Growing modules

A system that enables remote management of household, educational and retail growing

All the necessary online tools:

Ready-made plant recipes store

Possibility to create your own plant growth recipes

Remote control of the climate, lighting, and watering from anywhere in the world

Application of computer vision to enable automatic tracking of current plantings and creating tickets for the delivery of new seedlings

Notifications about yield being ready for harvesting, its growth, or any microclimate deviations

A store for ordering consumables

Online customer support and consultations by agronomists

Video and photo monitoring, with the possibility to share photos and videos on social media

Journal for observations

Video training, interactive guides

Integrating cutting-edge technologies: Computer vision / Machine learning / Artificial intelligence

iFarm Growtune is based on an adaptive protocol that employs computer vision, machine learning, and data relating to thousands of plants collected from a distributed network of farms, as well as open data.

This protocol can determine plant weight, growth deviations, and diseases. As a result, iFarm Growtune provides recommendations or automatically adjusts growth algorithms to achieve the planned yield.

Use of cutting edge technologies Computer vision / Machine learning / Artificial Intelligence

iFarm Growtune is based on an adaptive protocol that employs computer vision, machine learning, and data relating to thousands of plants collected from a distributed network of farms, as well as open data.

This protocol can determine plant weight, growth deviations, and diseases. As a result, iFarm Growtune provides recommendations or automatically adjusts growth algorithms to achieve the planned yield.

Reduce workload

Monitor plants 24/7 with drones, cameras or smartphones

Make sure your plants are healthy

Track growth dynamics of each and every plant:

detect any deviations at an early stage
identify plant diseases automatically
determine plant weight and maturity by image

Manage everything online

React promptly to any changes in growth cycles:

Notifications sent to alert employees when action needs to be taken
set microclimate parameters and adjust plant growth formulas
get help from our smart chatbot assistant

Technology Partners

For farms

up to 250m²

$150

per month

+

$1,5

per month / 1m²

of growing area

For farms

250-10,000m²

$1,5

per month / 1m²

of growing area

For farms

over 10,000m²

$8,000

from

per month

Library of ready-made plant grow recipes
Automated plant planning tools
Order Management Module
Farm Capacity Management Module
Microclimate monitoring and automation control (via API)
Production monitoring and checklists Module
Analytics Module
Free updates of the current software tools
Online support

For farms

up to 250m²

$150

per month

+

$0,75

per month / 1m²

of growing area

For farms

250-10,000m²

$0,75

per month / 1m²

of growing area

For farms

over 10,000m²

$8,000

from

per month

Possibility to create your own plant growth recipes
Automated plant planning tools
Order Management Module
Farm Capacity Management Module
Microclimate monitoring (via API)
Production monitoring and checklists Module
Analytics Module
Free updates of the current software tools
Online support

Farms with iFarm Growtune Sofware

Explore cases from our clients who successfully manage their vertical farms around the world

Bather Smart Farm

iFarm Leafy Greens, iFarm Microgreens, 2569 m²
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)

Yasai Green Farm

iFarm Leafy Greens, 585 m²
Zürich (Switzerland)

GrowMe Spinach

iFarm Leafy Greens, 3833 m²
St.Petersburg

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