Vivent - Innovative Biosensors
Vivent uses artificial intelligence to decipher plant signals and provides crop health insights directly from plants. Through our innovative plant alert system, we can now help even the most experienced growers to increase yield by limiting long duration stress.
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8/06/2022
Sustainable AI sensor set to help growers get early warnings
A unique AI technology that allows growers to tune into the early warnings of disease, pests, nutrient deficiencies, and water stress that plants communicate has received €1.8 million of funding from ePlant and Astanor Ventures.
8/06/2022
How your plants’ behaviour changes during different crop life cycle stages
How does a tomato plant uses its energy throughout the season? For the first time, the intrinsic tomato developmental changes over a full commercial crop cycle were monitored and revealed. This is done by the Swiss company Vivent, active in commercial plant electrophysiology. With long-term monitoring of electrical potential in growers located in Switzerland, France, and the Netherlands, Vivent was able to track how plant electrical activity changed between February, when seedlings were planted in the glasshouse, and October 2021, when the plants were removed. A graph shows how the electrical potential in the plant change over time.
8/06/2022
Swiss crop electrophysiology specialist is a registered B Corporation
The ‘Fitbit of plants’, Vivent’s PhytlSigns device has been certified as a B Corp – a Certified Benefit Corporation – after meeting rigorous social and environmental standards which represent its commitment to do business in a meaningful way, by pursuing purpose as well as profit. "Vivent’s technology leads to increased yields, improved crop protection effectiveness, and encourages the adoption of environmentally preferable protection solutions – so more food, less chemicals," the Vivent team explains. "With recertification every three years, Vivent has embarked on a process that aims at ever higher standards and continuous improvement."
8/06/2022
Vivent biosensors: analyzing and using electric signals from plants to optimize crops
The Swiss company Vivent, pioneer in electrophysiology, has decided to use those signals in order to provide producers with crop monitoring solutions through biosensors. Already implemented on greenhouse crops for cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers, and in open fields for vines, Vivent is now conducting trials on lettuce, asparagus, strawberries in polytunnels, as well as sugar beets and potatoes.
8/06/2022
Modern Crop Protection – Bayer and Vivent investigate plant defense mechanisms
Modern crop protection practices combine classical disease control with plant resistance induction to various biotic and abiotic stresses. Such stresses might be plant pathogens or extreme weather conditions including drought or heat. One way to induce plant resistance to crop diseases is the use of biological or synthetic solutions, so-called plant defense inducers (PDI). Various biochemical and molecular biological assays have been developed during the 1990s to discover new structures and profiles from known classes of defense inducers1.
8/06/2022
Sensor receives panic signals from plant under attack
Living organisms are constantly sending out electrophysical signals. Plants use these electrical signals to detect stress when attacked by pests and diseases. The Business Unit Greenhouse Horticulture and Flower Bulbs of Wageningen University & Research investigate whether sensors can recognize electrophysical signals.
8/06/2022
Real-time crop stress monitoring to hit North America through partnership
Ecoation and Vivent have signed a partnership agreement to bring a real-time crop stress monitoring to the North American market.
To further the partnership, Vivent has installed real-time crop sensors at HORTECA, a North American Horticultural Technology Center & Academy (HORTECA). The 2-acre Demonstration and R&D facility is located in Ruthven, Ontario, right in the heart of the biggest greenhouse production cluster in North America.
To further the partnership, Vivent has installed real-time crop sensors at HORTECA, a North American Horticultural Technology Center & Academy (HORTECA). The 2-acre Demonstration and R&D facility is located in Ruthven, Ontario, right in the heart of the biggest greenhouse production cluster in North America.
8/06/2022
Automated real-time stress alerts from your plants increase yields
Vivent’s innovative biosensors detect stress signals in the plant’s internal network long before visible symptoms appear. Monitoring crop health in real-time shows when plants are growing productively or when they are stressed and underperforming, adapting to disease, pests, or other suboptimal conditions. Growers can now receive real-time alerts directly from their crops when their plants are stressed using Vivent’s biosensors.
21/09/2021
Vivent announces partnership with Bayer for technology geared to help growers secure yields
Marina Curran
The new technology provides farmers with an insight into crop stressors prior to visual symptoms appearing.
Bayer researchers will use the technology to accelerate discovery of innovative crop protection chemistry.
Bayer researchers will use the technology to accelerate discovery of innovative crop protection chemistry.
21/09/2021
Real-time detection of crop stressors helps develop new crop protection
Swiss-based technology company Vivent announced today a new partnership with Bayer which grants the company access to the system PhytlSigns.
21/09/2021
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PhytlSigns
PhytlSigns provides realtime monitoring of crop responses to environmental changes and early warnings of a wide range of crop stressors, well before visual symptoms, enabling growers to increase yields, reduce pre-harvest losses and to choose environmentally preferable crop protection.
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Vivent Biosensors
Crop monitoring device
Crop monitoring device
Vivent biosensors continuously monitor the crop and register stress in the plant. The linked smart software immediately sends the grower an alert when stress is measured. He can then zoom in on this and take action to lower the stress, so that the crop can quickly return to maximum performance.
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