Osram has been expanding the business scope of plant lighting in recent years. After the acquisition of plant lighting company Fluence Bioengineering, Osram recently announced in the field of plant lighting another action-Osram’s venture capital division Fluxunit acquired a Canadian start-up company Motorleaf part of the stake.
By injecting capital into the motorleaf, the layout of intelligent agriculture will be further promoted. In greenhouses or indoor farms, to ensure crop yields, growers need to spend a lot of time and manpower to cope with pests, temperatures and other problems.
In order to improve production efficiency and reduce labor cost, intelligent management is needed. Motorleaf has developed an industry-leading software and hardware solution designed to serve indoor farms and greenhouses around the world. Through artificial intelligence and machine learning, motorleaf can make vegetable production more efficient, more predictable, more repeatable and more profitable. The company, based on leading data analysis technology, released the world’s first artificial intelligence production prediction function for commercial greenhouses, and succeeded in reducing the error rate of greenhouse prediction by nearly 50%. Motorleaf is now involved in more greenhouse projects in North America and Europe.
Using artificial intelligence technology, the Motorleaf solution also has the function of intelligent harvesting prediction. Alastair Monk, co-founder and CEO of Motorleaf, said: “Motorleaf very welcome these high-quality investors, they and we have the same vision, that is, the use of cutting-edge technology to promote global food production.” With these investments, we will increase our talent pool, further strengthen our hardware and the core technology of artificial intelligence of the Agronomost.ai platform.
” In the field of plant lighting applications, osram specially developed a lighting system solution that can effectively stimulate and manage plant growth in greenhouses and indoor farm environments.
Under the condition of overall environment growth, the regulation of light according to the specific needs and characteristics of plants will have a great impact on the actual yield and quality of plants.
Fluxunit’s executive director, Ulrich Eisele, said: “We believe that advanced data analysis technology has great potential in optimizing the predictability and productivity of commercial greenhouses and indoor farm production.” The combination of Osram and Motorleaf has created more favorable conditions for intelligent agriculture and promoted the transformation of agriculture towards modernization and intellectualization.
In the future, it will also bring more benefits to the production of crops.
The action of Osram in the field of plant illumination
Develop new products Over the past few years, Osram has increased its investment in the field of plant lighting. The company developed a special lighting, according to different types of plant custom light source formula, launched a number of related plant lighting products. The Oslon Square series, for example, has a crimson led with a wavelength of 660nm, which is mainly used for plant flower growth control.
Coupled with the dark blue version of 450 nm and 730 nm’s far red light, Osram’s Oslon column perfectly covers the whole process of plant growth.
Acquisition, capital injection company In May 2017, Osram invested in Agrilution, a start-up company in Munich, which developed a planting box with LED lighting for home use. June 2017, Osram announced the acquisition of U.S. led supplier led Engin, the company’s products are suitable for entertainment lighting, including horticulture, ultraviolet light, adjustable white and medical lighting applications and other professional markets.
In May 2018, Osram acquired fluence Bioengineering Company to integrate intelligent lighting, sensors and intelligent software into a digital plant lighting solutions leader. For plant applications packaged led and solid-state lighting products market is expanding, and is expected to become Osram, Philips, branch Rui and other lighting enterprises to compete for the LED new battlefield.
