Sollum Technologies Partners With Leaficient to Optimize Agricultural Lighting Controls
June 18, 2024 Sollum Technologies, the pioneer behind the 100% full programmable dynamic lighting solution, partnered with Leaficient, a leader in precision plant measurement and lighting control technologies, on June 11, 2024. The partnership aims to advance lighting strategies and recipes by integrating plant growth data in Sollum’s algorithms in order to learn, adapt and optimize cultivation in real time.
Leaficient, a biotech sensing and controls company, is at the forefront of computer vision technology performing detailed leaf-level tracking of plant stress and photosynthetic capability. This approach enables the customization of lighting profiles and optimizes plant growth conditions. The focus is on increasing growth efficiency to produce higher yields while reducing energy consumption.
François R-Moisan, CTO and co-founder of Sollum Technologies, shared his excitement about the partnership, stating: “Integrating Leaficient’s detailed plant metrics with our SUN as a Service® (SUNaaS®) cloud platform enhances our capability to provide incredibly tailored lighting strategies that adapt, more than ever, to the specific needs of each crop and cultivar, at every stage of growth. This partnership sets a new standard in precision agriculture.”
Brian Stancil, Leaficient co-founder & CEO, added: “We are using plant performance and health knowledge to determine lighting strategies, basically using every photon to generate biomass and avoid waste. Sollum’s dynamic lighting systems, combined with our advanced measurement capabilities, offer growers unprecedented control and efficiency in their operations.”
Brian Stancil has over two decades of experience in commercializing technology in a wide range of industries. He works alongside co-founder Andy Rope, PhD, a lifelong farmer with extensive experience in optics and image processing. He has published articles in Nature Communications, Biomaterials, ACS Nano, The Journal of Functional Biomaterials, The Journal of Cell Biology and The Journal of Cell Science.
About Sollum Technologies
Sollum Technologies designed the only 100% dynamic LED lighting solution that modulates the full spectrum of the Sun’s natural light to illuminate closed environments such as greenhouses, research centers and laboratories. Sollum’s distinctive proposition is a fully scalable cleantech solution that evolves with business needs and multi-zone light management, with each zone benefiting from automatic dimming of an unlimited number of light recipes; this is why it provides unparalleled value in terms of energy savings and, additionally for greenhouse growers, increased productivity and superior produce quality. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Montréal, where its design, development and manufacturing activities are concentrated, and has a representative office in Ontario. For more information, visit sollum.tech.
About Leaficient
Leaficient was founded in 2022 to develop technologies that accelerate the adoption and profitability of indoor farming. Leaficient’s intelligent lighting control and analytics solution increases yields and quality while reducing costs. Their platform hooks into existing lighting systems in the greenhouse to provide adaptive recipes based on a wide variety of environmental and plant-based biometrics. The system monitors crop health and productivity for each microclimate and generates customized light recipes based on the dynamic needs of the plant as it grows. Leaficient is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The core technologies behind Leaficient’s solution were developed with support from the National Science Foundation and Carnegie Mellon University, the US News and World Reports #1 university worldwide in Artificial Intelligence.