WPS introduces its latest ontogenesis in plant research automation , the WPS Phenotyping Gantry .
Traditionally , plant phenotyping is a manual process that is very labor - intensive and rather subjective . As today ’s environmental challenges ask for a ordered series - up in plant inquiry to spring up new crops or new products that are able to cope with these challenges , manual phenotyping often forms a bottleneck when scaling up on research .
Industry 4.0 has brought us many unexampled digital and data - driven technologies , which are still finding their style into flora research . For instance , machine visual sense is now being assume to digitally phenotype plants . Whereas Industry 4.0 is very engineering - centered , industriousness 5.0 has now issue as a young paradigm where emphasis is placed on social goal and placing the well - being of workers at the mall of the output process . Automation must work for people rather than replace them and bring to society in a positive way . These same principles can be applied in the cognitive operation of introducing automation technology in works inquiry . Rather than supercede researchers , technology helps found researchers to focalize on making Modern uncovering and advancing knowledge , unburdened by the limitations of manual phenotyping .
Digital phenotyping offers a data - drive and scalable solution , which at the same time cut subjectiveness . Also , by using dissimilar sensors one could remark more than the human eye ever could , which further enrich the data being accumulate . As such , digital phenotyping corroborate investigator by broadening and improving their toolset . The head is , how do you bring these plants and sensors together ? One could take a picture of each individual plant and analyze these pictures digitally . While this reduces subjectiveness , this approach still is n’t scalable . To gain a high-pitched throughput phenotyping system , one should either bring the plants to the sensor , or the sensor to the plants , fully autonomous . In research quickness , plants are often delight toward the sensors because this allow for observation of the plants under keep in line condition . However , this rule is not always applicable . In some cases , the crop may not be suitable for frequent ecstasy , or the individual plant may be abide by with sensor that can not be moved . Sensor - to - plant life systems provide a useful solvent to these situations .
With a broad portfolio of ' Handsfree Plant Research ' engineering science , WPS brings Industry 5.0 to establish research facility , making them quick for ' Plant Research 5.0 ' . Our in style development , the Phenotyping Gantry , autonomously brings detector to the plants to collect datum , offer a scalable resolution to researchers to keep their hands free and drop more time making unexampled find and developing knowledge .
" In the age of diligence 5.0 , our ' Handsfree Plant Research ' technologies are reshape plant research facility , ensuring researcher are fit out with the tools they call for to flourish in Plant Research 5.0 , " say Digna van Zanten , CEO at WPS .
The WPS Phenotyping Gantry can be fit out with various sensor , ranging from RGB sensing element to 3D sensor and multispectral sensors . As a specializer system integrator , WPS has a blanket mesh of highly experienced partner in the field of detector and motorcar vision , allowing to select the proper system for each software .
