Beyond Farm to Table

Use Cases

Farmers

Keep track of your consumables, inventory, tractor maintenance, harvest data, and all your temperature and moisture sensors. See gate sensors and video from RTSP cameras. Keep track of FSMA data such as KDEs, CTEs, and TLCs, all in one place. Do you have a very large farm? We also support LoRaWAN, RT+/DECT, and other long range wireless protocols as well as cellular and satellite connectivity. Generate instant online reports for FDA inspectors at the press of a button, with ready to send email templates including links to the report. Upload pics of the cucumbers before you harvest them. Take a picture of Henrietta so your customers know their eggs come from a happy free range hen. When you ship your strawberries using a logistics company on our site (or use our software to do your own logistics if you want) the data transfers seamlessly. If you sell to someone NOT using out platform, first tell them how great it is and they should start using it, then send them the data in standard GS1 EPCIS 2.0 signed format that they can import into their system.

Logistics

Picking up some strawberries from a farmer using our system? They have TLCs and maybe even temperature RFID chips on them (yes we have temperature RFID end to end if everyone in the chain of custody uses our system or can import into it.) So if you have our RFID Temperature scanner in your truck, the cabin temp as well as the temperature for each individual lot code will be recorded along with GPS coordinates. If you attach our OBD connector we can also upload your vehicle telemetry and use machine learning to suggest when preventative maintenance is necessary to prevent equipment failure. Picking up food from a restaurant on our system to deliver it to someone's house? Yeah we have an app for that AND it can connect to off the shelf temperature sensors. Grab an insulated bag or cooler, put one of our sensors or an off the shelf Thread/Matter sensor in it, connect it to our app and the temperature and GPS of the food will be uploaded to the server, allowing the customer to watch their dinner stay warm as it is delivered to them. If you're a retailer using our delivery app, you no longer have the "GrubHub Hole" to deal with, where you have no control of the customer experience your customers have. Make sure they don't get mad at your because their GH driver had 3 other stops before dropping of their, now cold, food.

Processing

This is a very important piece of the puzzle, because if all the Lot Codes go in here and different Lot Codes come out, and there's no way to connect them, it causes massive problems during a recall. Any bagged salad made from tainted lettuce must be tossed, but if you packaged 100,000 bags that day and can't prove which has lettuce from the few dozen tainted heads... it all has to be thrown out. That's a lot of wasted food and money. Our software can help you associate multiple parent lot codes into a single product, which gets a new lot code that can be traced back to the food. This not only helps during recalls, but lets you prove that your bread really is made from organic wheat, and your spinach and mushroom frittata is made with free range eggs. We have special tools for cheese-makers, fermenters, and salumists that make some of the less pleasant parts of the job more enjoyable.

Retail

Modern consumers want to know the origins of their food. Be it for animal rights, quality of food, or religious reasons, many people want to know their food was handled according to their beliefs. Buying from producers and wholesalers who use our platform gives you instant access to all the data a customer could ever want. A QR code can answer all their questions about where the steak came from. And if you're using our POS, or have integrated your existing one with out inventory system, we can use kanban levels to automatically reorder when inventory gets low, and keep up to the minute inventory using our ticketing system. You sold a salad, the system sees the tomatoes are now below minimum threshold so an order is placed for the next delivery. Digital Twins allow you to see 2D or 3D representations of your location, with sensors placed in the 3D environment that move and rotate with it. Easily see where problem areas in your store are with our Digital Twins. The food industry should not be dominated by massive conglomerates. You can have the same eCommerce technology, delivery apps, and sensor tech, but owned by YOU, not a Private Equity Fund. But if you still need to get some things from them, we support importing standard GS1 EPCIS 2.0 formatted signed data as well as exporting it, so you can still prove your food's origin.

Consumer

Even if you fall into one of the above categories, you still gotta eat. We have recipes, food safety education, information about your food, and tools to safely forage for shellfish, etc. Make sure you don't get food poisoning from those raw oysters because you didn't have enough ice in your cooler and got stuck in traffic on the way home from the coast. So whether you foraged it or purchased it from a retailer using our system, you can take comfort knowing exactly who had custody of your food, for how long, and what the environment was like. Basically, I want the same info as this episode of Portlandia, but as an app.

(This clip used without permission from anyone, it is not an endorsement of this product by anyone. It's just an entertaining way of showing the level of detail I want. Plus I really like that show.)