Freight Farms Named 2022 IoT Monitoring Solution of the Year

Freight Farms, a manufacturer of container farming, announced it has been awarded IoT Monitoring Solution of the Year in the 2022 AgTech Breakthrough Awards conducted by AgTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global agricultural and food technology markets today.

Farmhand is Freight Farms’ IoT farm automation software and is the only software of its kind. Farmhand allows indoor farm operators to control temperature, lighting, and other environmental variables in their farms by connecting to in-farm sensors.

Farmhand is flexibly architected so that many different indoor grow setups (beyond Freight Farms’ container farms) can be operated using the software.

The IoT software is able to interact with different controllers, sensors, modules, HVAC units, lighting systems, and cameras. It allows for both monitoring and controlling different indoor farming systems, so that data from these setups can be fed back to operators to improve operational and plant performance.

Among farmhand’s distinct and unique offerings is a feature that visualizes the entire crop planning and planting process. It automatically performs any necessary calculations, then adapts farm modes to tailor the environment to those crops. It also provides analytics that aggregate sensor data to identify trends from previous harvests to optimize future ones, as well as providing crop growing “recipes” that are ever-improving based on data from farmers.

Importantly, farmhand enables production of higher quality, more flavorful, and more nutritious produce by dialing in specific environmental settings to replicate an ideal climate for plants to thrive. The “recipes” feature takes the guesswork out of this by preloading the ideal temperature, nutrient, CO2, humidity, and light settings for growing different plants into the software, which operators can select based on what they are growing.