AI agritech company Neolithics is revolutionising the fresh produce industry with the launch of its new automated, portable produce inspection system, Neolithics Light
The non-destructive technology helps boost profits by eliminating inspection waste, improving productivity, and increasing the volume of saleable product.
Current manual processes require destroying as much as 5% of the entire crop, with the subjective measurements being almost 30% inaccurate. Furthermore, data entry reduces turnaround speed and incurs significant labor costs – even more expensive with hiring challenges in the agricultural sector. Digitising the system as with Neolithics Light however, reduces inspection time by 90% and increases accuracy by more than 15%.
The platform allows retailers, distributors, and food processors to completely eliminate manual, sample-destroying inspections. It uses hyperspectral optics and AI frameworks to deliver previously unavailable insights including nutrition levels, Brix sweetness, project shelf life, maturity, anomalies, and detection of different organic compound distribution both internally and externally, among many others. The Neolithics hardware delivers spectral analysis of various organic materials, while the software provides comprehensive data management for accurate grading and prediction. The Neolithics Light integrates with any third-party logistics, supply chain, or processing hardware and ERP software.
Clients who are already benefitting from Neolithics Light include Granot Fresh, one of the Middle East’s largest food cooperatives, as well as leading global produce distributors, overseeing hundreds of tons of gross product every day. Implementing the system will not only help F&B companies to reduce OPEX, but will also strengthen their competitive advantage, thus enabling consumers to receive higher quality produce and automatically increasing the efficiency of food production.
“With long-term use of the Neolithics Light‘s produce quality analyses, retailers, distributors, and food processors can create different produce grades, charging more for higher-quality fruit and increasing their bottom lines,” said Neolithics CEO Amir Adamov.
A demo of the Neolithics Light system was presented at Fruit Logistica, which took place from 7-8 February this year.
For more information, visit: www.neolithics.ai
