Philips Horticulture LED Solutions, vertical farming partnership

Philips Horticulture LED Solutions and Hoogendoorn Growth Management have partnered to integrate horticulture lighting technology with greenhouse automation solutions.

This partnership aims to enhance dynamic lighting for vertical farming, providing more efficient and effective growing environments.

Philips Horticulture’s LED lighting solutions and vertical farming crop knowledge will combine with Hoogendoorn’s climate automation and algorithms focused on autonomous growing. The collaboration aims to facilitate an easier integration of lighting into Hoogendoorn’s IIVO Vertical Climate computer and pave the way for autonomous optimization in growing crops in closed environments.

“Through our collaboration, we simplify the daily work for growers. With a consolidated system that allows a full and easy integration of the lighting system into the customer’s infrastructure, we enable them to manage and monitor their crops more efficiently and to scale faster. Advanced algorithms reduce energy costs, while maintaining yield and crop quality. They support decision making and execution when it comes to deviations from ideal crop growth compared to actual measured plant development,” explained Anne Jancic, segment manager vertical farming for Philips Horticulture LED Solutions.

“As a leading company in horticulture, we are always on the lookout for innovative partners to collaborate with. We recognize Philips Horticulture LED’s pioneering role in the field of lighting and vertical farming and we believe that our mutual expertise can lead to the development of groundbreaking new services and products for vertical farmers,” said Martin Helmich, CCO of Hoogendoorn.

Hoogendoorn’s IIVO Vertical Climate computer was installed at the Philips GrowWise Research Center in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The center supports customer trials that test, develop and optimize dynamic, self-learning light and growth recipes that can adjust and adapt to real-time changes during cultivation. This is a step toward the integration of intelligent lighting technologies into autonomous growing algorithms.