Signify teams with Siemens to offer vertical farm IT services

One way for a lighting company to offer information technology is to partner with a technology company. That sounds like a truism, but the industry is full of examples of lighting vendors attempting to also offer services like data collection and analysis, with mixed success.

So in its latest IT push in the horticultural field, Signify has partnered with Siemens to help digitize and automate vertical farm operations such as climate control, lighting, plant growth, and irrigation for 80 Acres Farm, an Ohio-based chain that grows crops indoors at facilities around the U.S. and supplies them to local supermarkets and retailers.

80 Acres, headquartered in Hamilton, is in expansion mode hoping to open new locations both in the U.S. and in Europe through The Hague, Netherlands-based subsidiary Infinite Acres.

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