HYVE & AGEYE announce strategic partnership aimed at bringing next generation of innovation to indoor farming

HYVE Indoor Farming Systems, a solutions-based, manufacturer of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) systems and AGEYE, a company producing an automated platform for monitoring in vertical farms and greenhouses, have announced a strategic partnership aimed at bringing unmatched complete technology to the CEA industry and commercial growers.

HYVE is Central Virginia, USA-based and offers complete hydroponic growing solutions with an emphasis on hardware, design, and system infrastructure. AGEYE, from the greater Raleigh, North Carolina area, provides sophisticated AI capability that monitors every plant within a system for more predictable harvest outcomes and the resultant effect of more profitable harvests.

“Our goal remains to provide a total and complete scalable solution for indoor farming," said Ron Acorn, President of HYVE. "We trace our origin to the LED lighting industry and initially began in CEA by offering a range of LED grow lights. Over time this has evolved to complete systems that include everything from heavy duty racking, controls, food grade trays with automated movement, robotics, nursery, seeding, harvesting equipment, automated tray cleaning, and more. The strategic partnership with AGEYE will now further enhance HYVE systems by providing growers with the choice for a comprehensive integrated artificial intelligence capability that will allow for revolutionary plant and system monitoring.”

“AGEYE’s focused core competency has been software and artificial intelligence (AI)," added Nick Genty, Co-Founder & CEO of AGEYE. "Our AI systems utilize visual inputs and growth development insights and essentially turn them into autonomous actions within a system’s architecture. What this means for a grower is that we have a sophisticated means to monitor the health and development of crops through every stage of the growth process and invoke actions that will help to identify abnormal growth patterns that may adversely affect harvest and profitability. We can mitigate issues at an early stage leading to much better outcomes for the grower.”

“We are excited to partner with HYVE as we view their systems to be the perfect fit for our artificial intelligence solution," Genty added. "Their platform is a complete and robust scalable technology answer and our system as an integration will provide those in the controlled environment sector an unmatched choice. Together we will create truly exceptional outcomes by bringing to market an automated turn-key solution that can really be viewed as the standard for the next generation of vertical indoor farming systems.”