MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hortau, the leader in precision irrigation management systems, today announced its partnership with mnubo, the Internet of Things (IoT) Data Analytics company, to advance its solution offering of delivering higher crop yields with real-time analysis of optimal moisture and soil tension conditions. Hortau enables growers worldwide to maximize yields while optimizing their water resources. mnubo’s expertise in predictive IoT data science and real-time analysis of farm sensor data, enriched with external conditions, will enable Hortau to provide actionable intelligence to growers and other stakeholders.
Since 2002, Hortau has installed sensors on farms in the U.S. and Canada, recording hundreds of thousands of data points per hour. Hortau’s mission is to tap into the value of this farm data to increase sustainability, productivity and deliver optimum efficiency to producers. mnubo provides a real-time, built-for-IoT Data Analytics platform that enables application providers, like Hortau, to extract business value from sensor and events data. With this partnership, Hortau and its producers will tap into the latent potential in their sensor, water, soil and weather data using mnubo's SmartObjects platform, and deliver a world-class precision irrigation solution.
“Our partnership with mnubo will bring to market an innovative, data-driven solution for the producers,” said Jocelyn Boudreau, CEO of Hortau. “Their ready-to-use SmartObjects platform and expertise in data science will save us years of development work and will help us accelerate our time-to-insight and deliver relevant, real-time value to our rapidly growing customer base,” Boudreau added.
“Smart agriculture epitomizes the huge global impact possible with IoT analytics solutions. It is also a market that will increasingly expand its use of sensors and external data sources to improve resource utilization and crop yields,” said Dan Shey, VP of B2B Services at ABI Research and a renowned global IoT analyst. “As a result, application providers need to choose analytics platforms such as those from mnubo that not only scale to increasing data volumes and variety, but also provide real-time insights using a suite of diagnostic and predictive analytics tools,” Shey added. “We expect more partnerships such as Hortau and mnubo that combine vertical know-how with analytics excellence.”
“Hortau’s market leadership and patented technology strongly positions them to deliver additional value to the growers based on the strategic insights from their irrigation data,” stated Frederic Bastien, CEO of mnubo. “Data science and machine learning on farm data, are key to the optimization of global water reserves and maximizing crop yields,” Bastien said. “This collaboration brings together Hortau’s rich industry experience and mnubo’s unique ability to create business value from sensor data making the agriculture industry smarter.”
About Hortau
Hortau is an industry leader in wireless,
web-based irrigation management systems. It was founded in 2002 by two
agriculturally-minded entrepreneurs, Dr. Jean Caron, agronomist, Ph.D in
Soil Physics, and Jocelyn Boudreau, agricultural engineer, M.Sc. in Soil
Physics. Hortau’s patented, irrigation management solution helps growers
detect plant stress, ensuring optimal crop growth while reducing water
and energy use as well as eliminate environmental impacts on crop
production. Hortau has offices across North America, with headquarters
in Québec, Canada and San Luis Obispo, U.S. To learn more visit www.hortau.com.
About mnubo
mnubo makes Internet of Things smarter. mnubo
provides Big Data and Analytics for IoT - transforming ‘connected
things’ into ‘smart objects’. Its focus is to help extract business
value from sensor data by delivering advanced real-time analytics,
strategic insights, predictions and enabling richer applications. mnubo
offers a SaaS solution to connected object manufacturers and other IoT
players to ingest, enrich and analyze their object data. mnubo’s
services benefit customers in wearables, home, automotive and industrial
verticals. Over the past year, mnubo has seen a 400% increase in the
number of connected objects using its services. For more information,
visit www.mnubo.com.
