Despite the intense mechanization over the past century there are many operations in both the agro and food industry that are still performed manually.

This is not surprising since the handling of these organic products require specific skills like:

• Humans can use their senses such as vision, touch and sound which is challenging to automate
• Interpretation of data or data mining is required for various tasks
• Expert knowledge of the product is required in order to determine its quality
• Being able to recognize specific features or defects (i.e. recognition of diseases)
• Handling of organic products with high speed, precision and accuracy

Current mechanical automation lacks techniques to support this labour.

There is a great demand for intelligent systems that can learn human expert knowledge required for these complicated tasks.

senseIT has a lot of experience in developing smartsensors that can interpret data by using the latest software and hardware technologies available today. A system that is able to learn requires adaptive software which can be realized by using techniques such as neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms.

Typical agro and food applications that require smartsensors

• Meat quality inspection and grading
• Seed sorting