Harvest Intelligence
Spotlight
Pointing Ready-to-Harvest Mushrooms
Intelligent harvesting, with Machine Learning & Data Mining
Faster Harvesting
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Choose cap sizes to pick
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Accelerate your harvest
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Hands free, no wires
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Remotely monitor progress of pickers
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Speed up training
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Fits all traditional infrastructure
Case Study in Switzerland:
Here are a few charts that speak for themselves:
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The group of new pickers with no previous picking experience were split in two, half equipped with Spotlight, and 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 far 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.
Specifications
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Intelligent mushroom detection
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White / Brown button mushrooms
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Cap size: 20mm - 120mm (5 size selectors per program)
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Point what to harvest
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Point what not to harvest
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Distance to bed: 30cm - 150cm
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Harvester working area width: 100cm
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Bed depth: 70cm (1/2 bed from each side)
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Luminosity adjustment for projection
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Autonomous operation: 4 hrs (battery swap at mid-day)
Positioning
Spotlight Device Weight
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Net Device Weight: 1.15kg
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Including battery: 1.6kg
Benefits for the grower:
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Train new pickers
-Acceleration of the performance
-Relief for the instructors
-Training temporary forces
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Efficiency increase for experienced pickers
-Selection of mushrooms to be picked is displayed
-Concentration on picking order only
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Optimised picking: Increasing the yield
-specification of picking size is precisely adhered to
-Weight optimisation due to later picking
Mounted on picking cart
Mounted on picking lorry
See many more pictures and videos in the Examples section
Training: AI and Big Data for Mushroom Harvesting
Order your fleet of Spotlights
After several successful trials in 2022 & 2023 with Swiss mushroom growers, we are now open for orders from other growers internationally. A limited number of Spotlights will be produced in 2024 and provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Be one of the first to benefit from a boost to your pickers' productivity! Contact us to obtain a quote.