National University of Singapore (NUS) AgriTech Center
Singapore
NUS Agritech Centre is an innovative sandpit for researchers, entrepreneurs and visionaries to present challenges, experiments, and explore market-based solutions in agriculture. Run by NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Centre uses digital tools, technologies and controls to provide an optimised infrastructure and environment for urban farming innovation and production. The Centre’s role is focused on inspiring a new generation of high tech farmers by developing and commercialising frontier technologies for urban farming and agriculture to improve farm yield, growth efficiency and profitability. The center has specialised environment for optimal harvesting; grow zones with built-in features for analytics; precision climate chambers with climate control set-up; and technical zone with germination and grow chambers and high-tech equipments. This center also has a remote systems which allow for easy access, control and monitoring of the plants from anywhere to enable start-ups to protect their projects.
Lead (category)
Academia/research
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
National University of Singapore
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery
Technology-neutral supporting services (incubation, finance, training, etc)
Agritech, startup or SMEs capacity and enabling services
ICT products/solutions and services by category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Social Services (Education, Health, Skills)
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
Business and governance structure
Run by NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS).
DI ICT-deliverables format
Interactive data exchanges
Mobile applications
Web-based platform
Precision agriculture
Digital education
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
SMEs / agreprenuers
Agribusiness / private organization
Government
Startups
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully operational - Growing and expanding stage
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
National
All over Singapore
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution