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French Company Turns Smartphones Into Grain Analyzers
When grain farmers can’t accurately assess crop quality, they typically face pricing difficulties. These issues result in wasted time, uncertainty, and lost opportunities, as most grading processes involve lengthy visual analysis and laboratory testing.
France-based Inarix aims to change the agricultural landsca
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French Company Turns Smartphones Into Grain Analyzers
When grain farmers can’t accurately assess crop quality, they typically face pricing difficulties. These issues result in wasted time, uncertainty, and lost opportunities, as most grading processes involve lengthy visual analysis and laboratory testing.
France-based Inarix aims to change the agricultural landscape by turning typical smartphones into pocket laboratories. Their PocketLab platform leverages the power of AI and machine learning to analyze visual data provided by customers and farmers.
Inarix Chief Technology Officer Artemis Llamosi explains they’re working at the frontier between AI and agriculture.
“It’s our mission to get the best out of each grain,” he says. “This innovative approach helps farmers more accurately price their grains, improving their overall profitability.”
To use the technology, farmers simply take a picture of their grains, and the technology takes it from there, using various criteria to provide a detailed analysis.
Inarix’s database is continuously growing, now containing over a billion items. The platform is built on the DINOv2 computer vision model from Meta, and contains pre-existing crop knowledge, helping to reduce data requirements and training time while improving performance across different phone models. This makes it easier for Inarix to learn additional criteria and expand its user base while reducing product development costs.
Using the DINO modeling, Inarix advanced its precision and analysis within 2% to 3% accuracy in predicting composition, a specificity allowing more confident decision-making and improved profitability.
Currently, the platform can assess barley, wheat and corn. Soybean trials are ongoing. The Paris-based company covers approximately 40% of the French barley industry and has gained significant traction operating in more than 10 European countries and across North America.
“Our vision is to spread both upstream and downstream, and DINO is an important element of this strategy,” Llamosi says. “Given this new lens that we provide, we think we’ll transform the agricultural supply chain.”
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Inarix, 29 Bd Edgar Quinet, 75014 Paris, France (hello@inarix.com; www.inarix.com).
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