PLANTVOICE

Company

The Plantvoice team is composed by Matteo Beccatelli, a chemist and the inventor of Plantvoice. His pioneering work forms the project's foundation, promising to revolutionize agriculture. Tommaso Beccatelli, an additive manufacturing specialist, designs and produces crucial hardware components through 3D printing. Prof. Tommaso Ganino, an agronomist at the University of Parma. He contributes a solid understanding of the agricultural sector. Giovanni Collinetti, a communications expert, is responsible for conveying Plantvoice's message to the world. Massimo Ferri, a computer engineer specializing in artificial intelligence and data analysis. Lastly Pierluigi Lodi Rizzini, an IP lawyer, who safeguards the team's innovations through legal protection. Plantvoice detects direct data from plant's sap and therefore identifies anomalies in the plant's health much faster than its competitors. PLANTVOICE preserves the health of crops and optimizes irrigation.

Products and services

Plantvoice is a biosensor, the size of a toothpick, which, by insertion inside the plant, allows real-time analysis of the sap. Plantvoice is biocompatible and identifies in real time variations in sap salinity, which are correlated with plant stress situations. Each type of stress is identifiable: water stress, biotic stress (bacteria or fungi), abiotic stress (chemicals or salts in the soil). Plantvoice detects direct data of the plant and this allows for the timely detection (after just a few hours) of anomalies of palnt health. Plantvoice satisfies two main needs: 1. preserving the health of crops with high added value (vines, olive trees) or high productivity; 2. optimize water use to limit costs for companies and to allow water to remain globally available.

References

We're working both with companies: Sant'Orsola, Salvi Vivai, Martino Rossi, Melinda and Philip Morris; and with research institutions: Eurac Research, University of Parma, University of Verona; University of Florence.