At the turn of the year, Optiflux launched Quality Insights. This is a mobile app, which allows growers, traders, graders or inspectors to measure thousands of fruits with a few photos. With this, the company won the "Idea of the Year 2023" competition from Fruit Trade magazine. It is a mobile application accessible on any smartphone.
"You can scan the barcode of a palox or enter a manual identification and then take a picture. Based on image analysis technology, you then get distributions of size, colour, percentage blush on apple and bronze on pear," says Niels Bessemans, CEO of Optiflux. This way, you get an accurate overview of your stock from harvest onwards. The registration of quality is thus done in an efficient, objective and truthful way. It scans the top layer and thus easily measures 150 fruits in a single photo.
With the new applications, both small and large producers are being looked at. Therefore, an alternative version is also in the pipeline for larger customers. "This will not be the mobile app, but a fixed camera setup. If one passes it with a forklift with three crates, it automatically takes pictures of the top crate before it goes into the fridge. So then you have an image of 1 out of 3 crates in a frig with Quality Insights' technology. This means you get a grading report by size and colour from each cold store or plot."
This early info on grading allows the commercial department to optimally match supply and demand. In addition, it is valuable information to correctly set up the sorting and packing machine with the right crew. Multiple employees can take photos simultaneously, and reports can be easily shared internally or externally with all stakeholders.
You can then match this data with our other module Storage Insights - a predictive quality management platform - which tracks quality in storage. When there is a demand for a particular quality, through Quality Insights you know that you have it in a particular fridge and with Storage Insights you can ask: "Okay, I have five of these, but which ones are best to sell first based on their storage potential?" All the data comes together on one platform, giving you all the information you need at hand to make an optimal choice. Ultimately, we want to be able to guarantee optimal quality throughout the chain with our technology," Niels concludes.
On 30 July at 19:00, Optiflux will hold a webinar to demonstrate the application and offer interested parties the chance to test the tool for free. Registration for the webinar can be done via www.optiflux.world.