Hummingbird Technologies Adds Iteris ClearAg to AI-powered Crop Analysis Platform
December 06 2018 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
ClearAg Smart Content to Enhance Hummingbird’s
Remote-Sensing Crop Health Capability
- ClearAg data now available to
Hummingbird users covering more than 250,000 hectares across large
farms in the UK, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine, Australia and New
Zealand
- Access to ClearAg “smart content”
gives farmers weather and climatological modeling information that
can reduce costs and increase operating efficiency
- Deal represents milestone in Iteris’
strategic focus on expansion in Europe
Iteris, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITI), the global leader in applied
informatics for transportation and agriculture, and Hummingbird
Technologies Limited (Hummingbird), the UK’s leading drone and
satellite-enabled data and imagery analytics business for precision
agriculture, today announced the addition of Iteris’ ClearAg® smart
content to Hummingbird’s aerial crop analysis platform.
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Hummingbird Technologies Adds Iteris
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The addition of ClearAg smart content to Hummingbird’s
artificial-intelligence (AI) powered crop analysis platform, which
spans over 250,000 hectares of farmland in the UK, Brazil, Russia,
Ukraine, Australia and New Zealand, will enhance its ability to
detect key crop diseases before symptoms start to show.
“We are delighted to announce the enhancement of our
remote-sensing capabilities with ClearAg’s advanced weather and
climatological modelling data,” said Will Wells, chief executive
officer of Hummingbird. “As the leading player in AI-based
agritech, our ability to identify crop diseases before symptoms set
in is a key area of research and development, and will ultimately
help farmers and agronomists to make better decisions.”
“We are excited to work with Hummingbird to harness the full
power of ClearAg smart content in the company’s AI-based crop
analysis platform,” said Jim Chambers, senior vice president and
general manager, Agriculture and Weather Analytics at Iteris. “The
team at Hummingbird are true innovators in precision agriculture,
and now this groundbreaking company can leverage ClearAg’s
historical and current weather and climatological data to pre-empt
crop diseases and improve crop health for safer and more
sustainable farming.”
Hummingbird is the only remote sensing business in UK
agriculture to use AI that harnesses information from drone, plane
and satellite technology, combined with weather and soil data, and
expert plant pathology, to enable precision agriculture. Connect
with Hummingbird on Twitter and Facebook.
About Iteris, Inc.
Iteris is the global leader in applied informatics for
transportation and agriculture, turning big data into big
breakthrough solutions. We collect, aggregate and analyze data
on traffic, roads, weather, water, soil and crops to generate
precise informatics that lead to safer transportation and smarter
farming. Municipalities, government agencies, crop science
companies, farmers and agronomists around the world use our
solutions to make roads safer and travel more efficient, as well as
farmlands more sustainable, healthy and productive. Visit
www.iteris.com for more information and join the conversation on
Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Iteris Forward-Looking Statements
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only as of the date hereof and are based upon our current
expectations and the information available to us at this time.
Words such as "believes," "anticipates," "expects," "intends,"
"plans," “feels,” “plans,” "seeks," "estimates," "may," “could,”
“should,” "will," "can," and variations of these words or similar
expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
These statements include, but are not limited to, statements about
the anticipated benefits and success of our agreement and the
ClearAg solution. Such statements are not guarantees of future
performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and
assumptions that are difficult to predict, and actual results could
differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any
forward-looking statements as a result of various factors.
Important factors that may cause such a difference include, but
are not limited to, our ClearAg solution‘s ability to provide
critical disease insights and to improve crop production and reduce
crop loss; our ClearAg solution’s ability to help users make better
informed decisions for crop health; the future adoption of the
ClearAg solution in the agribusiness markets; customer’s dedication
of resources and ability to achieve market acceptance for its own
products and services; our ability to gain additional patent
protection for our technologies and products; and the potential
impact of product and service offerings from competitors and such
competitors’ patent coverage and claims. Further information on
Iteris, Inc., including additional risk factors that may affect our
forward-looking statements, is contained in our Annual Report on
Form 10-K, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, our Current Reports
on Form 8-K, and our other SEC filings that are available through
the SEC’s website (www.sec.gov).
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Iteris ContactDavid SadeghiTel: (949) 270-9523Email:
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