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6 years ago Hi!
My name is Sybolt Visser and I'm on a mission to create more modern farmers for the future of farming, and I want to use this project to kick off Open Agriculture OpenAg in Norway - an open source community focused on making open agricultural technologies.
I'm a passionate about everything plants and have for the last 3 years been experimenting with growing food indoors. I have a background from computer science, but work mostly with business development. Someday I want to grow a for-profit Agritech startup, but first of I want to make a huge impact by making all efforts open source to drive indoor farming in the right direction. I would like to be project lead for this project, and I’m looking for hackers, makers, software developers, data scientist, agronomist, plant scientist, thinkers, geeks and dreamers.
My contact info: Sybolt Visser vsybolt (at) gmail.com +47 47379988
This project aims to bridge the current gap between controlled-environment agriculture and the computer vision and robotics fields. The intended outcome is to develop an open-source toolkit for plant analysis that can be adapted to container-size smart farms, vertical farms, or even small window farms at home. The project will enable farmers world wide to automate and optimize their food production.
Wanna join? Byspire does! They have a large vertical farm setup and are eager to collaborate. Byspire will stand for hardware setup (open source), and we will do data collection and analysis.
For some more details: Byspire has an indoor hydroponics system in Oslo and is able to control the following variables:
Byspire has a hardware (Arduino/rasp pi) setup with expensive sensors which they will co-develop with with our project. They have already started collecting some data but need help getting started with analytics.
On the organizational note: They have agreed to collaborate with us through D4G Norway and are eager to get started. They will open source their hardware design and the global impact for this project is also important for them. Byspires is a for-profit company, but making this open-source for makes them a good collaboration. Their business model is to sell produce, not solutions. We have just had some initial meetings, and are ready to get going as fast as possible.
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Looking for hackers, makers, software developers, data scientist, agronomist, plant scientist, thinkers, geeks and dreamers.
My contact info: Sybolt Visser vsybolt (at) gmail.com +47 47379988