8. James Paterson and Benji Meltzer
Vital Stats:
- Business: Aerobotics
- Industry: Agritech
- Business est: 2014
- Website: Aerobotics.io
This agritech start-up provides agribusiness owners and farmers with a bird’s eye view of their crops, aiming to optimise crop yield and reduce costs. Aerobotics is an aerial data analytics platform, which applies machine learning to multi-spectral images. The results offer insights to the client and a competitive advantage such as predictive information on crop health.
Benji Meltzer says that there is a large amount of information, which they can use to optimise the agriculture industry. “Technology is helping develop platforms to capture this data effectively (using ground-based sensors and mobile applications), analyse this data helping identify issues and become more predictive (using cloud computing and machine learning) and finally helping action the data through technology such as variable rate fertilisation systems,” says Meltzer.