A prairie company is working on the development of an artificial intelligence data recording kit

May 12, 2022

Mojow Autonomous Solutions will benefit from a $419 thousand dollar investment for digitization in farming under the Canadian Agricultural Partnerships AgriScience program.

Co-founder and President Owen Kinch says they focus on digital technology for agriculture and the money will help in their development of an autonomous navigation controller to be used in agriculture.

He says it's helping build those prototypes, go out into the field in the summertime, and collect the specific data that we require to build the the deep learning models that we need to develop for for our specific broadacre applications.

"So the continuous intake of real time image data from the peripherals of a tractor, for example. It allows the module Navigation Controller to gain a high level of relative position accuracy between the tractor and any other physical object encountered within its working environment. So, really what it does is it reacts to a changing work environment, much like human operators do today while they're in the cab."

One of the greatest challenges facing farmers today is the availability of skilled labor to execute time sensitive operations that impact farming outcomes.

Kinch says autonomy offers a safe and productive alternative to address that challenge head on.

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