Omdena

Omdena is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based digital initiative to improve crop yield, pest and disease control, and food safety. It helps farmers in 1) Improving Crop Yields: uses AI tools to analyze weather, soil, and crop data to help farmers make better decisions about planting, irrigation, and fertilization, leading to higher crop yields and reduced costs 2) Reducing Pests and Diseases: AI models help farmers detect pests and diseases early on, allowing them to take steps to control them before significant damage occurs. This improves crop quality and reduces the need for pesticides and herbicides 3) Improving Food Safety: uses AI models to monitor food production and processing for potential hazards, such as contamination, helping to improve food safety and reduce the risk of foodborne illness.

Lead (category)

Private company

Name of initiative lead (and partners)

Omdena Inc.

Categories of Digital initiative deliverables

Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery

ICT products/solutions and services by category

Digital Agriculture

Digital Agrifood Services

Non ICT products and services (deliverables)

Business and governance structure

Private company funnded

DI ICT-deliverables format

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Mobile applications

Web-based platform

Drones technology

Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)

Farmers

Agribusiness / private organization

Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders

Digital Initiative development Stage

Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place

Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries

Weed and Crop Detection model can accurately identify weeds and crops in drone imagery with an accuracy of over 90%. The AI-powered crop yield prediction solution has helped the agricultural company to improve crop yield predictions by 20%. This has led to a significant reduction in crop production costs and an increase in profits. Source: Developer website

Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)

National

All over Australia

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

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Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution