Region boosts digitisation in greenhouses and 5G Fieldlab

Exciting news! Tomatoworld is taking the next step in data-driven growing! For the past two years, Tomatoworld has already been the place where growers and other visitors can look at different techniques for growing tomatoes in our field lab Data Driven Growing & Robotics. In the RoboCrops Flying Start project, we will take our fieldlab to a new level of Data Driven Growing. We are doing this in cooperation with partners FME, InnovationQuarter and World Horti Center. With this, we want to encourage the use of new technologies and bring cultivation companies and tech companies together to innovate successfully together. The Province of Zuid-Holland also saw the importance of this development and made a contribution. In cooperation with tech company partners and experts in the horticulture sector, it is working to accelerate digital innovation in greenhouse horticulture. This is not only important for solving issues around sustainability and labour shortages, but also for attracting (deep) tech companies to our region.

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But that's not all! Tomatoworld will also become a 5G fieldlab thanks to the Do IoT (Delft on Internet of Things) project for greenhouse horticulture. Together with project partners Do IoT Fieldlab, TNO, MKB BV, Stichting Robovalley and Tomatoworld, 5G test and experimentation facilities will be built in RoboHouse and Tomatoworld. This will allow companies to develop, test and demonstrate innovative systems that would not be possible without high-quality mobile data connections, such as 5G. This makes Tomatoworld even more interesting for our partners!

It is important that more entrepreneurs in Greenport West-Holland innovate to remain successful in greenhouse horticulture and attractive as a business location for tech companies. These projects involving Tomatoworld contribute to the innovative strength of the horticultural cluster and the business climate for (deep) tech companies. 🌱🍅💻

Thanks to the Rotterdam The Hague Metropolitan Region, Province of South Holland and Municipality of Westland for financial support for these projects.