Hans Schepers · Maren Schoormans

CropSimulator.com

The ultimate simulator of your crop. Built on grower's logic rather than on statistics: fifteen variables together decide the state of the crop, and the ones no sensor reads are filled in by the model itself. With the costs alongside.

Open the simulator → Freely accessible — no account, no password.

Fruit vegetables and ornamentals — the same grower logic, different numbers (in development).

1 — Grower logic

Built on the logic of the grower

Fifteen variables together decide the state of the crop. At least five of them are read by no sensor at all. CropSimulator works them out — as a soft sensor, from what you do measure — keeps them consistent with each other day after day, and knows how they can be steered. That is precisely what most models do not do: they stop where the measurement stops.

2 — Digital twin

With the right sensors it grows into a digital twin

Connect the model to your own planning and measurements and it becomes a digital twin of this greenhouse. Every day it points at two things: which factor is the limiting one for the period ahead, and what you can do about it — with the effect on kilos through to the end of the crop.

3 — Quick to fit

Few numbers, and it stands

The model configures on remarkably few numbers: a handful of choices, target values, settings and constraints. No data migration, no year of history.

Steering on drainA uniform greenhouse can be steered at a lower drain.
Steering on RTRAimed at a fast or a slow cycle, but with a smooth Fruit loading.
Keeping a reserveHold a buffer in the crop, or steer right at the edge?

And always with the costs alongside — exactly, per week, per m².