Key Takeaways
- DENSO and Delphy signed an MoU to develop systems enabling data-driven smart horticulture.
- The collaboration combines DENSO’s sensing and automation technologies with Delphy’s cultivation management platform, QMS.
- Focus areas include planned cultivation systems and digital twin simulations for plant growth.
- The initiative responds to global challenges in agriculture, including climate variability and labor shortages.
- Target implementation timeline is by 2030 to support sustainable and stable food production.
DENSO Advances Into Smart Horticulture with Delphy Collaboration
DENSO CORPORATION has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Delphy Groep BV, a Dutch agricultural consultancy firm, to jointly develop solutions for data-driven smart horticulture. The partnership aims to address the challenges of climate variability, declining farming populations, and global food security by enabling consistent and sustainable agricultural production.
Leveraging its experience in environmental control systems, greenhouse infrastructure, and harvesting robotics derived from its automotive background, DENSO is expanding its focus on digital agriculture. Delphy brings its cultivation expertise through the Quantitative Management System (QMS), a software that uses crop and climate data to simulate and plan horticultural outcomes.
DENSO-Delphy Joint Development Targets: Automation and Simulation
System for Stable Planned Cultivation
The partnership will work on creating a cultivation system that uses DENSO’s sensing technologies to automatically collect crop data—traditionally gathered manually. This data will be input into Delphy’s QMS platform to enhance planning accuracy. By feeding this plan into greenhouse environmental control systems and worker instruction interfaces, the goal is to standardize and stabilize production.
Digital Twin-Based Cultivation Simulation
The second initiative involves developing a digital twin system that digitally recreates plant growth outcomes based on QMS cultivation plans. With DENSO’s digital modeling capabilities, this tool would allow growers to simulate outcomes and optimize decisions before implementing them in the field.
DENSO’s Broader Role in Sustainable Agriculture
DENSO has increasingly applied its automotive technologies to horticulture, with advancements in greenhouse IoT, sensor integration, and harvest automation. The company’s collaboration with Delphy aligns with its long-term strategy to contribute to global food security by enabling scalable, controlled-environment agriculture.
The companies aim to fully integrate their systems by 2030, with the goal of enabling stable, predictable crop production worldwide. By doing so, the DENSO-Delphy partnership seeks to make data-driven smart horticulture accessible and effective across varying climates and geographies.
