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Reducing phytosanitary products usage. Reducing need of manual labor. Increasing yields (by avoiding phytotoxicity on the crops)
Agriplanter by Agriplant NV
Agriplant NV
- Date of creation : 20/08/1982
- Sales contact : De Rudder Tom (tom.de.rudder@agriplanter.com)
- Website : https://agriplanter.com/
Belgium
Agriplant is an innovative family business from Belgium that’s active in the
design, production and sale of high quality and reliable automated vegetable
planting machines.
Agriplanter by Agriplant NV
Types of crops
Vegetables
Commercialization & Business model
- TRL : 10: Market introduction - Full commercial operation
- Number of units in service : $51K to $150K
- Price : 51K-100K
- Business model : Distributor network
Technical specifications
- Type of solution : Automated transplanters and seeders
- Robot’s primary need : Automatic transplanter
- Power source : Fuel, we need a tractor pulling the machine - PTO
- Horse power : Depending on the size of the machine: 60 (1 row) to 170 HP (6 row)
- Size : 2 row (=2 robots) machine: 652 x 250 x 240 cm, 6 row (6 robots) machine: 630 x 822 x 377 cm
- Net weight : 2 row machine: 2440 Kg, 6 row machine: 8650Kg
- Productivity : 3 to 32 hectare/day
Functionalities and technologies
- Functionality : Low pressure hydraulic, if a tray is not positioned well, it will just stop to Prevent trays from breaking or bending things. 1 cycles is 5 seconds, so every 5 seconds we take a full line of plants out of the tray. We use trays up to 34 cells per row.
- Embedded technologies : Tray sensor to check if there is a tray present. Plant sensor to check if there is a plant/plug present. No camera systems mounted yet, this will come in the future.
- Tools : More than 100 different trays are compatible with the robot
- Connections : Only PTO required, the machine is independent of the tractor and works on 24V. Connectivity is an option. No base station needed. GPS can be mounted on the machine, but is not necessary.
Development phase
- Next development phase : Camera system to count the transplanted plants
Agriplanter by Agriplant NV
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