Is it time for data analysis in your greenhouse?

Added on 17 October 2023

Tags

Is it time for data analysis in your greenhouse?

Choosing a software system to “help” in your operation can seem daunting. The learning curve can seem awfully steep if you haven’t been keeping up with the times. Words like enterprise resource planning (ERP), data visualization, and dashboard can be enough to make you put the project on the back burner. Maybe some other time when you’re less busy.

But that might be the exact reason to keep exploring the idea. To make you less busy, make your team less busy, and streamline processes. Minimize mistakes. Smooth out all the bumps. While environmental control systems are getting attention lately, greenhouse data analysis extends to the entire business. It integrates supply chains, labor costs, sales figures, even forecasting and planning.

With skilled and experienced growers becoming scarce, data analysis and autonomous systems can be a force multiplier, allowing more space to be managed effectively by the same number of people. These systems can “take care of managing the climate in the greenhouse when you aren’t there,” says Ronald Hoek, CEO of Blue Radix, whether that is to take a bit of time off or to handle other aspects of your business.

Data Analysis Is Critical

Operators commonly track environmental conditions, but what about other data? The business side of your operation is full of data, too. That may be a place where your operation could improve.