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e-Gro Q1 release: Optimized irrigation strategies including a redesigned Conditions Module

We hope you’ve had great first yields and are successfully entering your new harvest plans into the e-Gro. Collecting and analysing data is more important than ever when optimizing your growing strategy. This is why we do our best to help you continuously improve your crop performance by releasing updates. The Q1 release focuses on the latest users experience trends according to our UX lead, Eloy Harst, and feedback from growers like you. The improved way data, insights and advice is captured and displayed will help to optimize your growing strategy. The quicker and easier you can see your climate and rootzone insights including yield predictions and your plant growth, the more analysis and time you save and more sustainably you grow.

Check out the video below for more info about the Q1 release.

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1) A new WC Decrease Projection Model for an optimized water content strategy

We’ve improved one of our most unique and beloved features: the WC decrease overnight projection. This feature helps you to predict when to stop watering your plants before sunset, allowing you to make more data-driven decisions on irrigation actions and better control the outcome of your irrigation strategy. If used correctly, this enhancement could help in more efficient water usage and a more sustainable driven cultivation approach.

Download the PDF how to guide Q1 on this page to explore more about this improvement.

AI Driven

The feature now uses a new calculation (AI-driven) model. The already available “classic” version is a mathematical calculation while the new, beta version uses an advanced Machine Learning algorithm. This model will give you more control over your irrigation strategy and more accurate advice based on insights for the potential water content level over specific periods of time making use of historical and forecasted parameters.

2) Redesigned Conditions Module for improved user experience

The Conditions Module gives you the power to analyse the rootzone and climate together so you can optimize your irrigation and crop steering strategies based on real-time, accurate data. The new improvements are focused on an improved daily experience and a more recognizable look and feel for easy analysis and ways of working.

Download the PDF how to guide Q1 on this page to explore more about this improvement.

3) New irrigation insights for improved rootzone analysis*

e-Gro captures now new irrigation insights, these are visible to analyse in your Conditions Module. These new insights will help you to better analyse the impact of your chosen irrigation strategy on the rootzone environment of the plants. Influencing the root-zone environment is important on a season and daily basis, so that the crop growth and production is steered into the optimum direction. Additionally, Grodan and business support managers can also now better advise growers at distance as they now have more access to crucial information.

Download the PDF how to guide Q1 on this page to explore more about this improvement.

4) Improved model of e-Gro’s YieldForecaster

The YieldForecaster module is more relevant than ever for this release as it is planned during the harvesting time and the weather in the coming months is typically volatile. This AI-driven model now has improved performance due to new technology implemented. The main difference will be in reduced resources for calculation and prediction so you no longer have to wait for updates. The new model strives for a more accuracy due to the new implemented neural technology.

Download the PDF how to guide Q1 on this page to explore more about this improvement.

What next?

We continue to future proof Grodan’s e-Gro platform and we have some more exciting things in development. We will keep providing quarterly releases with the next release planned for early July. This release will focus on sweet pepper optimization and many more. It will also feature and a new, dedicated space for support information. With these new features we strive to continuously help you improve your growing strategy and achieve the best results possible.

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e-Gro Q1 Release: How To Guide

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