Collaborations enhance AgroFresh’s FreshCloud platform, delivering more insights for growers
AgroFresh Solutions has expanded its FreshCloud digital ecosystem with two new strategic global partnerships. Collaborations with Aerobotics, a leader in orchard and packhouse analytics, and Neolithics, a pioneer in AI-powered quality inspection, will enhance its Fresh Cloud platform, providing comprehensive digital produce quality and supply chain management for the fresh produce industry.
By aggregating real-time data from multiple sources, FreshCloud offers more options at each step in the fresh produce supply chain for digitally integrated quality measurements.
The new collaborations build on AgroFresh’s existing partnerships with sensor innovators Rubens Technologies, Strella, and Escavox, expanding its connected sensor platform for post-harvest management. This growing ecosystem empowers growers, packers and retailers to make faster, data-backed decisions to reduce waste, improve quality, and drive profit potential.
“AgroFresh is committed to building the most holistic and connected digital platform in fresh produce,” said Bradford Warner, AgroFresh head of digital solutions. “By integrating partners like Aerobotics and Neolithics, FreshCloud now connects orchard-to-packhouse intelligence like never before.”
AgroFresh’s partnership with Aerobotics integrates multiple TrueFruit modules into FreshCloud, delivering AI-powered orchard and packhouse intelligence. Using computer vision and AI analysis of smartphone imagery, Aerobotics enables growers to measure fruit size, colour, and quality accurately and objectively. Improve harvest planning with accurate size forecasting, blemish detection, and colour grading models.
Growers can monitor quality with standardised measurements, from the orchard to the packhouse and view yield data in one place for informed decisions that boost packouts.
“Aerobotics has always focused on empowering growers and packers with highly accurate yield,” said James Paterson, CEO of Aerobotics. “We are excited to partner with AgroFresh, as a key leader in our industry, to offer TrueFruit to more customers and combine the power of our technology with FreshCloud. Together, these solutions seamlessly extend insights from the orchard into the post-harvest stage, providing continuity of data and enhancing decisions across the value chain.”
With Neolithics integrated into AgroFresh’s FreshCloud, packers have access to a technology that delivers quality assurance to match the speed and scale of the modern packhouse, turning inspection into a source of confidence versus risk.
Neolithics’ AI-powered imaging provides high-throughput inspection, from one kilogram per minute for berries to over six tons per hour for avocados, scanning every piece for internal and external quality. It can measure key parameters such as Brix, acidity, and dry matter, while detecting hidden internal and surface defects. This is all done at above 90 per cent accuracy without destroying a single piece of fruit.
“We want to enable customers to protect their produce through high-volume, non-destructive quality inspections by reducing waste and creating greater transparency from field to shelf,” said Kate Murray, CEO of Neolithics. “We’re excited to integrate with AgroFresh and their FreshCloud ecosystem to realise our shared vision for a more sustainable, transparent food chain.”
