Agri-food
Applications
Innovative Fiber Optic Solutions for Agri-Food
Photonics plays a transformative role in the agri-food industry, offering innovative solutions to enhance food production and quality. By enabling precise seed selection, effective growth monitoring, and efficient harvesting and sorting, photonics technology optimizes agricultural processes. It also ensures stringent quality control, advances microbiological analysis, and detects contaminants. Moreover, photonics aids in climate and environmental monitoring, provides accurate nutritional measurements, identifies food adulteration, and supports real-time production monitoring. These advancements collectively drive productivity and safety in the agri-food sector.
What sets us apart?
Photonics-based spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging are used in seed selection assistance, phenotyping, variety adaptation, seed quality, production technology.
Photonics-based sensors and monitoring systems are used in OAD & yield prediction, growth monitoring, disease detection and urban farming. Embedded spectroscopy solutions enable users to make data-driven decision without having to take samples.
Photonics provides innovative technologies for harvesting and sorting crops. Photonics can help with maturity control, sorting, grading, allotment, cleaning…
Photonics-based techniques, such as spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging and fluorescent imaging are used for food quality control, microbiology, contaminants detection.
Photonics provides highly sensitive, precise and rapid measurements. Different techniques, based on absorbance, scattering, fluorescence or infrared spectroscopy can be used for gases, water pollutants, storm light measurements…
Optical measurements help to predict nutritional parameters like protein, moisture level, sugar contents of raw materials or processed product.
Quality, safety, purity, spectroscopy methods bring solutions to detect adulteration of food.
Optical monitoring solutions are powerful tool to drive production process, to save time, to limit co products use and to optimize the profitability.
