The Chilean startup launches its new application to facilitate field monitoring and ensure maximum efficiency in crop management from any mobile device.
Viewing historical information and simultaneously monitoring fields in real time, receiving notifications about alerts on key soil parameters, or about the approach of weather events, are tools that farmers can access directly on their cell phone. How? Thanks to the new application that the Chilean startup Instacrops is launching.
Keeping farmers fully informed, almost minute by minute, about all the needs of their crops is one of the goals that Instacrops has set for itself.
“The App is a very ambitious project, where Instacrops users will be able to see satellite images for monitoring crops or obtain information on smart irrigation, receiving alerts about the needs of the fields, whether because a frost is coming, or monitoring soil humidity or temperature,” explains Fabián Martínez, Chief Agronomist at Instacrops.
Technology behind the new Mobile Application
Instacrops users can download the app available for both Android and IOS devices.
Once installed on your smartphone or tablet, you can obtain information immediately, thanks to a user-friendly and intuitive interface that allows direct communication with the services.
“Upon entering the App, users will be able to view their field polygons, review information on the sectors such as the number of hectares, type of crop, and a legend of how they have been irrigated. When they enter the soil parameter monitoring services section, users can review a list of their InstaSoil stations and access data from the sensors connected to their stations. This includes soil moisture at different depths, usable pond, among others. When users access the InstaWeather Climate services, they can view ambient temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, radiation, wind speed and direction, along with various calculated variables such as evapotranspiration, cold hours, cold portions, degree days, among others,” adds Francisco Altimiras, PhD. Chief Technology Officer, Instacrops.
For the Agtech, this is a very important step that allows them to continue promoting the democratization of access to cutting-edge technology for farmers in Latin America. “Our new App will allow us to reach many more users who prefer mobile devices to review information about our services. This application brings all the knowledge acquired by Instacrops to the Web, both on cell phones and tablets, so that our users can monitor their crops in situ, improving the user experience of the Instacrops platform. In addition, we will soon launch a free mobile application of our platform, offering weather forecasts such as frost predictions and information contained in satellite images,” adds Altimiras.
In this way, the app will simplify the day-to-day life of farmers, since they will obtain the necessary information for intelligent management of their crops, contributing to the optimization of the use of resources such as water and energy.
This tool is part of the new services that Instacrops is launching, such as its new business model “Precision Agriculture as a Service”, PAaaS, which goes hand in hand with its growth throughout Latin America, being present in the fields of Chile, Mexico and Colombia.
In 2021, they entered the American accelerator Y Combinator, becoming the first Latin American Agtech to be selected. To date, they have raised USD 3.5 million in private capital led by Genesis Ventures - where the main investor is the British group OxBridge Capital Partners - and also SVG Ventures, a specialized investment program and the most active in the Agtech industry in Silicon Valley. All this allowed them to move their headquarters to the United States to continue connecting with more investors.
