SMART TRAPS
For real-time detection and identification of pests at the early stage of infestation, we have developed AgroPestAlert, an interconnected network of smart and electronic trap-devices, assisted by analytic data applications in the cloud, wich are fully integrated to identify pests at the Species level. This information platform transmits to any user connected to the Internet, alerts of pest outbreaks at the very moment they appear so that a trusted community of farmers and pest monitoring systems will be aware of the infestation to contain it in time before their populations get out of control and cause irreparable damage to crops.
SMART TRAPS capture biometric information from the wingbeat of the insects, and abiotic variables of the surrounding environment. These data set is transmitted to the cloud.
HOW IS WORKS
Data analytics, spectral analysis, and machine learning applications process the information, group it, correlate it and generate a database for consultation and issuance of infestation alarms.
The algorithms built identify which species the insect related to each set of data sent by the SMART TRAPS belongs.
TEAM
Victor de Ponte
Co-founder, Software Engineer
Software Engineer from Simón Bolívar University in Caracas, Venezuela. Specialist in computer science, software architecture design, mobile, and web application development. Full Stack Developer.
Louis Gerardo Holder Rodríguez
Co-founder, CEO
Biologist graduated from Simón Bolívar University, Master in Finance from Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, Caracas, Venezuela / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Specialist in finance and investment banking and ICT R&D management. Extensive experience in the management of scientific-tech nological innovation projects in the public and private sector and in capital raising processes for investment projects.
Jaime Jerez
Co-founder, Software and Hardware Arquitect
Engineering studies at Simón Bolívar University, Venezuela. Senior software architect, designer of electronic circuits and firmware for embedded systems.
TIMELINE
June 2021.
The signing of a distribution agreement with WIDHOC, DQAGRO Group.
Cartagena, Murcia, Spain.
May 2021.
Sale and installation of SMART TRAPS to Otazu Winery.
Navarre, Spain.
March 2021.
NewsWhip online startup Startup Accelerator.
Texas, USA.
November 2020.
Pilot field trial.
Bio Precision
Location: Albacete, Castilla de la Mancha-La Mancha, Spain.
June 2020.
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Food Startup Accelerator Network. European Union.
Startup Accelerator.
November 2020.
Pilot field trial.
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Food Test Farm.
Location: Seville.
Target pest: Fruit fly.
June 2020.
Pilot field trial.
EIT FOOD FAN BILBAO.
Location: Álava. With the collaboration of the NEIKER Basque Institute for Agricultural Research.
Target pest: Grapevine moth (Lobesia botrana).
November 2019.
Field pilot test.
Bonduelle Ibérica.
Location: Campo de Cartagena, Murcia, Spain.
June 2019.
Field pilot test.
Smart City Iruña Lab.
Location: Pamplona, Navarre.
Target pest: boxwood moth (Cydalima perspectalis).
June 2019
Field pilot test.
Navarre Institute of Agri-Food Technologies and Infrastructures, SA (INTIA).
Location: Cadreita, Navarre.
Target pest: Tomato and lettuce moth (Helicoverpa armigera).
May 2018.
A grant from the NEOTEC,
Kingdom of Spain.
August 2017.
A grant from the R&D Program of the Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain.
August 2017.
A grant from the SME instrument phase 1, European Union.
April 2017.
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Climate-KIC, European Union.
Location: Online.
Startup Accelerator.
November 2016.
SODENA's Pre-seed investment.
Pamplona, Spain.
September 2016.
Orizont by SODENA.
Startup Accelerator.
Tudela de Navarre, Spain.
June 2016
The first prototype for the concept demo.
Caracas, Venezuela.
January 2016.
Imagine Lab-Microsoft.
Startup Accelerator.
Santiago, Chile.
Invested by:
Accelerated by:
Grants awarded by