LiFi4Food has been selected for the 2023 EIT Food Seedbed Incubation Programme
2023 EIT Food Seedbed Incubation Programme
LiFi4Food announced that they have been selected for the 2023 EIT Food Seedbed Incubation Programme. They further stated that will help them validate their low-cost, battery-free sensors for dense monitoring deployments in vertical farms and greenhouses.
The EIT Seedbed Programme is dedicated to supporting technology and agri-food entrepreneurs and early-stage startups who are looking to validate their products, test their assumptions through a client discovery journey and boost the network of emerging agri-food startups. The programme is designed to address key food system challenges that are urgently facing the global population by supporting state-of-the-art agri-food technologies across the entire food chain.
With the support of EIT Food, LiFi4Food aim to contribute to feeding and nourishing more than nine billion people by 2050, in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. By developing their innovative technology, they aim to improve efficiency and productivity in the agri-food sector, particularly in smart farming.
The EIT Seedbed Programme also provides a 7000 EUR grant for travel and market discovery actions, which will open the door to new food chain collaborations and partnerships.
LiFi4Food
LiFi4Food is a Spanish start-up providing sustainable solutions for precision agriculture. We are an entrepreneurial team of telecommunication engineers with vast experience in exploiting LiFi technology to connect battery-free sensors to the Internet.
Precision agriculture, also termed PA, is the science of improving crop yields and assisting management decisions using high technology sensor and analysis tools. PA is a new concept adopted throughout the world to increase production, reduce labor time, and ensure the effective management of fertilizers and irrigation processes.
For farmers growing food indoors, LiFi4Food is a brand for digital and precision agriculture, with an innovative LED lighting system that integrates LiFi wireless technology to provide the best colours for your crop growth, while communicating with and transferring power to battery-free environmentally-friendly sensors that continually monitor the health of your crops, allowing you to optimize the quality of your food all over the year.
LiFi4Food offers an integrated, innovative, and sustainable communication system formed by self-sustainable and battery-free IoT (Internet of Things) devices to monitor and control environmental parameters in high-tech agri-food facilities such as vertical farms and greenhouses. It takes advantage of the LED lamps already installed in such sites to deploy a LiFi network that supplies the battery-free sensors (equipped with solar cells) with both power and data.
LiFi4Food makes use of the diode lamps that feature in agri-food facilities to set up a LiFi network. This supplies power and data to said facilities in a way that uses solar energy and not batteries.
The start-up has said it intends to lower the CO2 emissions of agri-food facilities, making them more sustainable in the long term.
