Award Sub-Category: Agricultural Innovations

AeroFarms and Nokia Bell Labs announced a groundbreaking partnership to integrate innovative artificial intelligence (AI) enabled mobile sensor technologies into AeroFarms vertical farms to elevate their imaging insights and enhance their fully-connected smart indoor farms in order to grow the highest quality, nutritious plants year round.

Most fertilizers today are produced in centralized facilities and then imported. Due to the long-distance logistics, rural smallholder farmers pay 2-5 times the world price for their fertilizers. We use patented technology to decentralize fertilizer production such that it can be implemented in rural villages using local labor and resources.

Apeel’s new advanced imaging technology helps suppliers “see” inside produce and collect data on nutrition, sustainability & freshness. By unlocking insights inside produce, suppliers know how long produce lasts and where it should be shipped, bringing food waste closer to zero.