Pollination support
Cover the gap when the bees cannot
Small drones assist pollination indoors and in blocks where natural pollinator activity is short.
What this costs today
Glasshouse crops and early flowering orchards need pollination at a moment that does not always line up with pollinator activity. Cold, wet or windy flowering weather keeps bees in, hired hives are expensive and cannot be timed precisely, and a missed window shows up directly in fruit set.
How the flight runs
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Time
Flowering is tracked from imagery so the assist runs on the days that actually matter.
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Fly slow
A light drone works the rows at canopy height on a repeatable path.
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Assist
Controlled airflow moves pollen within the canopy without stripping or bruising the flowers.
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Check
Fruit set is counted afterwards and compared against untreated reference rows.
What the aircraft carries
- RGB camera for bloom staging
- Airflow control
- Indoor positioning for glasshouse work
Daily through the flowering window.
What you receive
- Bloom stage timeline
- Assist coverage log
- Fruit set count against reference rows
- Hive supplement recommendation
What it measures
Readings this capability produces on your fields. Measurements, not promises.
- Rows covered per session
- Bloom stage distribution
- Fruit set against reference rows
- Days of poor natural pollinator weather covered
Where this carries the most weight
All use cases-
Glasshouses and protected crops
Pollination assist through flowering, canopy health by row, and irrigation uniformity across a house with no rain to mask it.
Houses of 0.2 to 10 hectares under glass or plastic.
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Orchards
Fruit counting for the pack house booking, blossom frost protection, tree by tree health, and birds at ripening.
Blocks of 1 to 40 hectares.
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Soft fruit and berries
Picking forecasts for labour planning, irrigation uniformity under tunnels, bird pressure and frost on early varieties.
Blocks of 0.5 to 15 hectares, open field and tunnels.