Keeping Africa airborne
Hummingbird Technologies
TRANSFORMING THE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY
Hummingbird Technologies is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) business that provides advanced crop analytics to its customers by using proprietary Machine Learning (ML)algorithms applied to remote sensing captured imagery.
Afridrones now offers these services to farmers throughout the SADC region. Our combined expertise allows our customers to increase their yields, optimise chemical inputs, farm more sustainably and make earlier, more informed decisions.
By pushing the boundaries of science and technology, our mission is to improve the efficiency of global crop production, and to feed the world’s growing population sustainably.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Afridrones is a remote sensing and drone services business. We gather imagery of arable fields from satellites, planes and UAVs and then analyse it using Hummingbirds’ sophisticated machine learning techniques. From this, we create detailed insights that are crop specific, and application maps that provide actionable information to farmers and agronomists – enabling targeted applications within 24 hours.
WHAT DOES IT ACHIEVE?
Our actionable data allows farmers and agronomists to make decisions that lead to an increase yields, optimised chemical inputs and ultimately farm in a more sustainable manner. By enabling earlier, more informed input decisions, profit margins can be protected by ensuring the right applications, to the right areas of the field at precisely the right time. Furthermore you can rest assured that you always have your field’s data available, even when not on the premises.
THE CROPS
We analyse crops within our portfolio wherever they grow in the SADC region.
Our competencies range from cereals to maize, potatoes, soybean, sunflowers and sugarcane. In areas where we don’t operate our own UAV flights, we have local partners that ensure fast turnaround times following your request.
THE PLATFORM
Developed by Hummingbird’s expert team of agronomists, software engineers and big data experts.
Their technology is backed by large agri-businesses and leading academic universities.
Once a flight has taken place, the algorithms work behind the scenes to deliver exceptional insights into crop health and decipher hidden patterns in a field.
Their range of crop management tools, which provide detailed insight into how crops are growing to make more informed input decisions on crop health to enable precision agriculture and accuracy in yield forecasting. The HBT platform has been developed to target your needs, with a mobile app that supports crop walking alongside a website containing downloadable maps at the click of a button.
Actionable data within 24 hours
Through the Hummingbird web and mobile platform we make crop specific analyses and application maps available to our customers within 24 hours after an Afridrones pilot has captured your fields.
The weekly satellite powered overview gives you a performance summary of your fields and allows you to stay informed of everything happening on your farm, regardless of your location around the globe.