Harvest Intelligence
Customer Case Studies
Sharing Experiences to Help Improve the Industry
Here are a few examples of the clients using MycoSense technologies. Many more pictures are available in the Spotlight section. Feel free to contact us to obtain more information about any of these customer use cases.
Customer Case Studies - Wauwiler Champignons - CH
Wauwiler Production: 75T /week
Pickers: 100+
Growing Rooms: 31
Infrastructure: Traditional Dutch Shelves
Spotlight Use: Big, Medium mushrooms
Opening the Bunches. (Thinning)
Spotlight Benefits: Picking sizes harmonized
No overpicking
New pickers 30-40% faster
Medium pickers 15-25% faster
Experienced: Faster, Less tired
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Video first in German then in Polish language - TURN ON ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Video zunächst in deutscher, dann in polnischer Sprache
Wideo najpierw w języku niemieckim, a następnie w języku polskim
Here are a few charts that speak for themselves:
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The group of new pickers with no previous picking experience was split in two, half equipped with Spotlight, and half without.
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3 months later, they all improved their picking speed month-to-month as expected, but the pickers equipped with Spotlight are consistently 20% to 30% faster than their colleagues.
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The worst picker without a Spotlight was then equipped with a Spotlight, and the following month she was better than all her colleagues without Spotlights: 37% improvement in picking speed.
This 3-month long trial was performed on traditional Dutch shelves, with picking carts that are pushed around manually. The size of mushrooms picked by Wauwiler is generally 40-55mm, and the MycoSense Thinning algorithm was used throughout the trial.
The result is that Wauwiler Champignons has ordered Spotlights for all their pickers.
Training: AI and Big Data for Mushroom Harvesting
A 13-minute walkthrough of the MycoSense product ecosystem
English video, with Polish and German subtitles
Traditional Dutch Shelves, Wheeled Carts
Self-Driving Trolleys
Lorry on Rails
Spotlight deployed on GTL Tilting Shelves
Thinning - Opening the bed (1st Flush, Day 1)
Thinning - Explanation on Setting the right Parameters (set then saved)
Size Control - Quality Assurance
Wooden Crates - Multiple Punnets / Sizes
Dutch Shelves (Spotlight year 2022 version) on Wheeled Carts
Spotlight Holders - Determining Proper Positioning
The Spotlight device slides onto a 2mm-think metal plate that serves as its holding mechanism on the cart/lorry. The Spotlight can thus be easily removed.
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The holding mechanism must be adjustable in all directions (3 degrees of freedom) so that the right angle can be set (permanently), maximising the projection area on the bed for your specific infrastructure.
The optimal angle is aways: Pointing downwards, titled quite heavily so that the bottom of the projected image (use the full-white-screen mode) is aligned with the sideboard that is close to the picker. The right hand-side of the image should form an 80-90 degree angle with the sideboard, going straight into the bed.
For a Spotlight installed to the left of the picker, the left-side of the projected image goes straight into the bed at 90 degrees from the sideboard.
As each picker is not the same height as her colleague (varying usually from 1.5m to 1.8m), the holding mechanism should have a simple way of adjusting the vertical height of the device, ideally with a quick-release pull-knob. The Spotlight is usually at the height of the picker's face. Since the Holder is attached to the lorry / cart, and the picker needs to use it on different shelves (bottom, mid, upper), she will need to adjust the height during the day, sometimes lifting or lowering it by 5-10cm depending on her lorry's height.
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