Smart pest control: how aerial technology saved olive groves

Success story

The challenge: invisible pests

What happens when an invisible enemy devastates your crop?

Olive groves faced a chronic problem: pests such as olive moths and flies drastically reduced productivity and increased costs. Traditional methods, based on reactive chemical treatments, were not only ineffective but also damaged the ecosystem and increased the environmental impact.

The challenge was to break away from the reactive approach and move toward intelligent, preventative control that would safeguard crop performance and health without compromising the environment.

The ROHU Solution: Precision Agriculture

To respond, we designed a comprehensive system that combines aerial technology and advanced data science.

Elements of the solution:

- Drones with multispectral cameras to identify critical areas.
- Ground sensors that measure photosynthesis, humidity, temperature, radiation, and pheromone levels.
- Proprietary convolutional neural networks capable of analyzing heat maps and detecting infestation hotspots before they spread.
- Data science platform, which integrates all information and guides treatment decisions.

Our strategy allowed us to apply targeted pheromone treatments, avoiding the indiscriminate use of pesticides and significantly reducing operating costs.

Stronger and more sustainable olive groves

Thanks to this precision strategy, the company transformed its business model, not only managing to solve the challenge but also achieving:
✔ Early detection and targeted pest control.
✔ Drastic reduction in chemical use.
✔ Optimized operating costs.
✔ Improved long-term health and performance of olive groves.
✔ Positioning as a benchmark in sustainable and proactive agriculture.

Today, this client is not only better protecting its crops, but also setting a new standard in the agrotech sector, using fewer chemicals, more intelligence, and more profitability.

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