AI Tomato Screening Revolutionizes Agriculture

Lenon Dias Barth, Industrial Operations and Automation Manager, highlights that technology is revolutionizing tomato sorting, a fundamental step in reducing food waste. Every year, tons of tomatoes are discarded due to failures in manual classification, but optical sorting machines with artificial vision and artificial intelligence promise to change this scenario. These innovative systems use high-speed cameras and intelligent algorithms to detect and classify green, ripe, and defective tomatoes in milliseconds, surpassing human eye precision. In addition to identifying color, shape, and size in real-time, artificial intelligence adapts and learns from each scan, adjusting to different types of cultivation. The agility and high precision of these machines bring more efficiency to production, reducing losses and elevating product quality. This innovation is a ...