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A better growing day.

Your people know what it takes to grow. Give them one clear view of the whole operation.

Bring the greenhouse bays, the flower rooms, the open fields, the yard and the packhouse into the same working picture, built around the equipment and expertise you already have. The climate computer keeps control. Your head grower keeps the final say. What changes is how fast the right person hears about the right thing.

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The whole operation, in context

From the flower room
to the far field.

Aerial view of Maple Ridge Growers: three glass greenhouse bays, a windowless grow building, a packhouse with a reefer at the dock, the yard, the farmhouse office and irrigated vegetable fields

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Watch the resolution, step by step

Here's how we'd handle it.

This walkthrough follows a real scenario built into our interactive demo. It shows the evidence, the decisions and the follow-through — not just an impressive-looking dashboard.

The night Bay 3 went dark01 / 06
A greenhouse range at night in deep cold, one bay glowing faintly from its heating pipes, snow on the ground
Guided story · illustrative operation

What happens next

January 14. The alert that woke you

Replay the night of January 14: −21 °C outside, and Bay 3's climate computer has stopped answering. Its own alarms died with it; the dashboard's heartbeat check noticed within a minute, turned the card red and rang the on-call grower at 01:53. The last reading before the silence was 16.9 °C and falling, with the vents and the energy screen frozen at their last position. Click the Bay 3 alert to open the night's timeline. A year ago this was a cold house discovered at the 06:00 walk-through.

The underlying problem

At −21 °C a closed tomato house can freeze within hours, and the thing that fails is often the climate computer itself, not the thermometer. The dialler watches air temperature and power. It does not watch the controller's heartbeat, the boiler, or whether the generator will start. Nobody finds out until the house is already cold.

The on-call grower hears about the controller at 01:53, not about the temperature at zero, and the incident record writes itself. Whether the crop is saved still depends on the fail-safe, the boiler and the electrician.

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Fictional operation and simulated incidents. Human decisions and technical integrations depend on each client's actual systems.

The alarm is rarely on the thing that failed.

A cold bay.
A dry row.
A log nobody filled.

Someone walks the same rooms to check the same readings. The climate computer alarms on everything until it is the computer that fails. The cold room's record is a temperature, a time and initials on a clipboard, if the shift was staffed.

Connect the reading to the place, the person and the next step. The on-call grower's phone rings about the dark controller, not about a thermometer reaching zero. The dry zone proposes its own night run inside the permit; you book it. The missed log becomes a task on the right phone, in the right language, so your team spends more of the day growing and less of it finding out what happened.

The flower room
The greenhouse bay
The field
The packhouse
One connected view

Every part of the operation

Drip-irrigated pepper rows on sandy Norfolk County soil, a hard-hose traveller running in the next block and the pump house by the pond
Outdoors

Fields & irrigation

Soil tension by zone, the pump against its permit, and a frost warning that wakes the right phone.

Any Ontario farm taking more than 50,000 litres a day runs under a Permit to Take Water. The permit can cost $10,000 to $50,000 in impact assessment to get, sets a maximum rate and a daily volume, and wants a daily log reported every March 31. In a Level 2 summer the conservation authority asks for a 20 per cent cut and tells everyone to check for leaks. OMAFRA and McGill's probe trials on Norfolk and Leamington farms found most growers lack the time to read the data, so timing is still a shovel and a look at the sky, and the traveller runs while the log stays empty.

Tension probes at 20 and 40 centimetres colour each zone on the map, and the pump house reports litres today against the permit's own maximum, with the daily record written from the flow meter. When Zone 3 crosses its threshold the dashboard proposes a night run that stays inside the permit and the reduction target, and the irrigation lead gets it on his phone in Spanish. Flow with no schedule running at 03:40 is a leak alert, not a mystery in the March 31 log. A frost alert in May reaches the phone before the transplants feel it. The water saved is logged from the meter, never estimated.

On the dashboard
  • Soil tension by zone and depth
  • Litres today against the permit
  • Flow with no schedule running
  • Rain gauge and ET forecast
  • Frost and inversion alerts
  • Spray records with REI and PHI
Equipment it connects
  • Hard-hose traveller and drip zones
  • Irrigation pump and flow meter
  • Tension and capacitance probes
  • On-farm weather station
  • Auto-steer tractor and sprayer
  • Scouting drone
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Inside a glass tomato greenhouse: high-wire rows, white heating pipes, energy screens half drawn and a climate sensor at canopy height
Under glass

The greenhouse bays

Three bays, one climate computer, and a watchdog that watches the computer itself.

Your climate computer alarms on every parameter until it is the computer that fails. A Dutch grower's 2 a.m. alarm turned out to be the climate computer shutting off, taking the heat pump and the air heater with it, and a closed house in deep cold can freeze within hours. The independent dialler most houses run watches air temperature and power, not the controller heartbeat, the boiler or whether the generator will start. Meanwhile greenhouse electricity rose 21 per cent in 2025 while the shelf price has barely moved in twenty years, the sticky-card counts live on paper, and the visitor log sits at the zone door.

The dashboard watches the things that fail: the controller heartbeat, pipe temperature, the hardwired minimum-pipe fail-safe, boiler mode, the roof-melt heating and the generator's weekly self-test. When Bay 3 goes dark the on-call grower's phone rings about the controller, not about the temperature reaching zero, and the panel shows the fail-safe has driven the valve open and which valve to put in HAND if pipe temperature does not recover in 15 minutes. By day it shows energy per square metre against target, CO2 at the canopy, and Thursday's sticky-card count as a task on the scout's phone. The climate computer keeps control; we never drive the heating loop.

On the dashboard
  • Controller heartbeat, pipe temperature
  • Fail-safe relay and boiler mode
  • Air temperature, RH and VPD per bay
  • CO2 at canopy, CO at burner
  • Energy $/m² per week against target
  • Weekly sticky-card counts
Equipment it connects
  • Climate computer (Priva, Argus, Ridder)
  • Boiler with CO2 recovery
  • Energy and blackout screens
  • Fertigation unit with EC/pH control
  • Standby generator and transfer switch
  • Minimum-pipe fail-safe relay
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A licensed cannabis flower room under LED bars, with the room controller, dehumidifier and a badge-reader door
Indoor grow

Indoor grow rooms

Two flower rooms under a micro-cultivation licence, where climate is the only defence and the 15th comes every month.

When the lights drop in a flower room the humidity climbs until the plants stop transpiring, and late in flower that means a smaller yield at best and a failed mandatory test at worst. You cannot reach for the fungicides a vegetable grower would use, so climate is the only real defence, and the spike happens at lights-off with nobody in the room. Margins are thin: producers receive as little as $3 a gram with excise at the greater of 10 per cent or a dollar a gram, and the CTS report is due by the 15th every month, rebuilt from spreadsheets by the people who grow the plants.

Each room reports temperature, RH and VPD against its stage band, dehumidifier runtime, CO2, PPFD and the photoperiod it kept. A lights-off humidity spike fires the boost rule on the room controller, alerts the room lead and attaches the deviation and corrective action to the lot's batch record for QA's release review. Room-level plant counts and the seed-to-sale inventory reconcile every day, so the countdown tile says three days to the 15th and a 1.2 per cent variance in unpackaged dried flower from Room 2's last lot before anyone opens a spreadsheet. A micro-cultivator needs a physical barrier and restricted access, not cameras, and the door log records the second.

On the dashboard
  • RH and VPD against the stage band
  • Dehumidifier litres and HVAC draw
  • CO2, PPFD and photoperiod kept
  • Plant counts vs seed-to-sale inventory
  • Days to the CTS report
  • Door events and after-hours access
Equipment it connects
  • Room controller (Argus, TrolMaster)
  • HVAC-D and dehumidifiers
  • LED fixtures on zoned schedules
  • Fertigation skid with substrate sensors
  • Access control and door logs
  • Seed-to-sale software feeding CTLS
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The equipment yard at dawn: the shop with its bay door up, two tractors, a sprayer, the diesel tank and the generator shed
The yard

Equipment yard & shop

Hours, fault codes, the diesel tank and the generator test, without the walk-around.

A faulty fuel sensor stops the machine in harvest week, the dealer is 90 minutes away and booked for days, and the pickers are on the clock at $17.95 an hour. JDLink data has been free on compatible machines since 2021, but nobody logs in, and the right-to-repair law of November 2024 still has no regulations behind it, so the fault code still needs the dealer tool. The same yard is a target: GPS receivers worth $10,000 to $20,000 each, and diesel siphoned at 2 a.m., as Grey Bruce OPP found in 2024. The generator test is the first walk-around skipped when the crew is short.

Every machine wears one tile: hours, next service, the active fault code and whether the dealer tool is needed. One click builds the dealer service request with fault code, hours, serial and photos, and logs the promised date when the desk calls back, so next year's contract has the turnaround on record. The diesel tank reports its level; a 310-litre drop at 02:14 saves the gate camera clip and builds the OPP report pack: clip, plate and litres. The generator's Sunday self-test appears without anyone walking to the shed, and the first missed test creates a work order. Repair time still depends on parts and the dealer.

On the dashboard
  • Engine hours and service due
  • Fault codes and dealer-tool status
  • Diesel level with overnight-drop alarm
  • Generator self-test, fuel and battery
  • Gate camera events after dark
  • Parts below minimum
Equipment it connects
  • Tractor telematics (JDLink, AFS Connect)
  • Standby generator and transfer switch
  • Diesel tank with level sensor
  • Gate and yard cameras
  • Parts bins with min/max
  • Shop Wi-Fi, segmented control network
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Inside the packhouse: the grading line, packed pepper trays, wrapped pallets at the dock door and the cold-room door with its sensor
Packhouse

Packing & cold storage

Cold rooms that log themselves, and lots that trace one step back and one step forward.

Cucumbers want 10 to 12.5 °C and show chilling injury below 10 °C within two or three days; peppers want 7 °C. The real-world failure is a mixed-commodity setpoint: someone drops the room for a pepper load on Friday with the cucumbers still inside, and nobody finds out until Monday. Today's record is a temperature, a time and initials on a clipboard twice a shift, if the shift was staffed; door time and compressor runtime go unrecorded. CanadaGAP audits those storage records either way, and from July 20, 2028 any Canadian shipper of cucumbers, peppers or tomatoes to the US must hand FDA sortable traceability data within 24 hours.

Wireless temperature, humidity and door sensors in each cold room, with a commodity map that flags peppers and cucumbers sharing a setpoint before the room drops. A door propped 22 minutes into a warm packing hall is its own warm-side alarm and a seal work order. Each lot carries hours outside band, so a 37-hour excursion becomes a Sunday pallet move inside the chilling window, not a yellowing load on Monday. Every pallet's lot code links back to a bay or a block and forward to the truck and its temperature at loading, so a mock recall takes minutes and the FSMA 204 export is a rehearsal, not a rebuild.

On the dashboard
  • Temperature, RH and door minutes
  • Hours outside band per lot
  • Setpoint changes and who made them
  • Pallets staged against the pickup
  • Bins per picker against the wage floor
  • Lot trace one back, one forward
Equipment it connects
  • Cold-room sensors and door contacts
  • Optical grader and sizer
  • Scale and lot-code label printer
  • Pallet and bin tracking (barcode or RFID)
  • Reefer temperature at loading
  • Piece-rate scanning
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The farmhouse office: two screens showing the dashboard, a wall calendar with circled dates, audit binders and a window onto the greenhouse range
The office

The farm office

Every deadline on one calendar with the records already behind it, and a phone that gets answered.

The wall calendar is the dashboard: the CTS report by the 15th, the water-taking report by March 31, AgriStability forms by June 30, the cannabis fee invoice before September 30, LMIA week 9 of 14 for next season's crew, the bunkhouse inspection and a CUSMA certification of origin on every US load. Audit prep is mostly hunting for paper, at up to $115 an hour of auditor time. The phone rings with a stock question while you are in Bay 3. And 80 per cent of farms have no plan for the day someone changes a setting on an internet-exposed controller, as happened to a Canadian grain dryer in 2025.

One calendar with every clock on it and the record behind each: the countdown to the 15th shows the reconciliation variance, the water-taking log is already built from the flow meter, and the audit readiness score lists each missing item with an owner and due date. The owner's morning view is exceptions only; the bookkeeper, the packhouse manager and the HR coordinator each see their own queue. An AI client-service agent answers web, phone and WhatsApp in English, French and Spanish and logs the inquiry. Cash, interest, excise owing and this month's energy sit on one tile, and the controllers live on their own network, off the office Wi-Fi.

On the dashboard
  • Deadline calendar with days remaining
  • Audit readiness by scheme
  • CTS reconciliation variance
  • Cash, excise owing and the energy line
  • Open inquiries and missed calls
  • Backups, MFA and exposed devices
Equipment it connects
  • Accounting and payroll (AgExpert)
  • CTLS, My CFIA, CanadaGAP records
  • LMIA, SAWP and housing files
  • Garden-centre POS where there is one
  • Phone, web and WhatsApp channels
  • Segmented network, backups and MFA
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Guided scenarios

Pick a real problem.
Watch it get solved.

Each scenario opens the live demo and walks you through it click by click: the exact control to press, what the dashboard is doing behind it, and what that means for your day. Press Start on any card to begin.

  1. Scenario 01 · Today
    3 min

    The night Bay 3 went dark

    At −21 °C a closed tomato house can freeze within hours, and the thing that fails is often the climate computer itself, not the thermometer. The dialler watches air temperature and power. It does not watch the controller's heartbeat, the boiler, or whether the generator will start. Nobody finds out until the house is already cold.

    The on-call grower hears about the controller at 01:53, not about the temperature at zero, and the incident record writes itself. Whether the crop is saved still depends on the fail-safe, the boiler and the electrician.

    • The greenhouse bays
    • Equipment yard & shop
    Start this scenario
  2. Scenario 02 · Today
    3 min

    Lights-off in Flower room 2

    When the lights drop in a flower room the humidity climbs until the plants stop transpiring. Late in flower that is a smaller yield at best and a failed mandatory test at worst, and you cannot spray your way out of it. The spike happens at lights-off, every day, while nobody is in the room.

    A deviation that used to be found at the morning walk is handled in minutes and lands in the batch record without typing. The pattern gives you evidence for a dehumidification fix sized to the real load; it does not promise the lot passes testing.

    • Indoor grow rooms
    Start this scenario
  3. Scenario 03 · Today
    4 min

    Drought week: the pump against the permit

    Watering over 50,000 litres a day in Ontario needs a Permit to Take Water that can cost $10,000 to $50,000 in impact assessment to get, sets your maximum rate and daily volume, and wants a daily log reported every March 31. In a Level 2 summer the conservation authority asks for a 20 per cent cut. Most growers still time irrigation with a shovel.

    You water the one block that needs it, stay inside the permit's own limits and the reduction request, find the leak the authority told everyone to look for, and the daily record is written from the meter. Water saved is logged, not estimated.

    • Fields & irrigation
    • The farm office
    Start this scenario
  4. Scenario 04 · 2027
    4 min

    Fourteen days to the auditor, two years to the border

    Audit prep is mostly hunting for paper, whether the scheme is CanadaGAP Version 11 or PrimusGFS, and the auditor can charge up to $115 an hour. From July 20, 2028 any Canadian shipper of cucumbers, peppers or tomatoes to the US must hand FDA sortable traceability data within 24 hours. The records exist. They are just everywhere.

    Prep time goes into fixing gaps instead of finding evidence, and the 2028 US traceability rule is rehearsed on real lots in 2027. The auditor's hours and findings are still the auditor's; what changes is that the records exist before they arrive.

    • The farm office
    • Packing & cold storage
    Start this scenario
Live demo

Step inside
Maple Ridge Growers

Walk every area, watch the alerts arrive, open the details behind them and run the guided scenarios yourself. It is a fictional operation built for the demo: nothing to install, no account, nothing of yours is collected.

Norfolk County, Ontario · 42 ha vegetables · 3 greenhouse bays · 2 flower rooms · micro-cultivation licence

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Maple Ridge Growers · Overview · 07:48
Today and 2027

What the next two seasons
ask of you.

The pressures below come from the research behind this page: the rule, the date, the number. None of it is a forecast of what software will do. It is already on the calendar.

Today

01
Electricity up 21 per cent, shelf price flat
Statistics Canada's 2025 greenhouse figures put electricity up 21.2 per cent to $181.9 million and natural gas up 4.7 per cent, while growers say the shelf price has barely moved in twenty years. For a Class A house the biggest controllable line is Global Adjustment, set by your share of Ontario's five peak hours, so a peak-day warning beats a year of trimming.
02
The 15th, every month
Every cultivation licence files its CTS report in CTLS by the 15th of the following month, with loss or theft reported within 10 days and a positive pesticide result within 7. Health Canada ran 479 regular inspections between April 2025 and March 2026, issuing 29 non-compliant reports and 22 stop sales. Most reports are still rebuilt from spreadsheets and paper batch records.
03
The crew is short, so the checks go first
Vegetable farms carry a 4.5 per cent vacancy rate, about 995 open jobs, and the SAWP cycle runs 12 to 14 weeks from LMIA to arrival. Ontario's minimum wage is $17.95 from October 1, 2026, and piece-rate harvesters must be able to earn it. When the crew is short, the back bay, the cold-room log and the generator test are the walk-arounds skipped first.
04
A controller on the office Wi-Fi
On October 29, 2025 the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued alert AL25-016 after hacktivists changed the temperature and humidity on a Canadian farm's internet-exposed grain dryer. MNP's 2025 survey found 80 per cent of producers have no incident response plan. On most farms the climate computer, the dryer, the camera recorder and the office laptop still share one flat network.

2027

01
Grid connection fees reach $62,000 per megawatt
Around Leamington the constraint is supply: greenhouse load of 735 MW in 2024 is heading for 886 MW by 2029. Hydro One asks for a 15-year guaranteed-kW commitment, and the upfront contribution at the South Middle Road station climbs from $30,000 per MW in 2025 to $46,000 in 2026 and $62,000 in 2027. Demand-side control of lighting and CHP becomes a daily cost line.
02
FSMA 204 arrives July 2028
From July 20, 2028 any Canadian shipper of cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, melons, leafy greens or herbs to the US must give FDA key data elements within 24 hours as a sortable spreadsheet; SFCR records are not equivalent. About 85 per cent of Ontario greenhouse vegetables go south, and a non-CUSMA load has carried a 10 per cent tariff since July 24, 2026. Rehearse it on real lots in 2027.
03
The reporting format changes on January 1, 2028
Health Canada's proposed CTS Order, published in Canada Gazette Part I on September 26, 2026, would collapse 14 unpackaged inventory classes to 7 and drop book-value and capacity reporting from January 1, 2028, with records auditable for two years. It is proposed, not final. A producer needs a system that reports in today's format through 2027 and switches cleanly in 2028.
04
Autonomous growing needs clean data first
Ontario put $148,100 into adapting Blue Radix's Crop Controller with three OGVG growers in 2021, partly because skilled growers are scarce. The pilot wrapped up in early 2023; the service now runs climate equipment around the clock on a three-day forecast. It sits on top of the Priva or Argus and the grower's own data, so a house without connected, clean data today cannot use it when its turn comes.
A practical partner. A useful first step.

Let your expertise
travel further.

You know the crop, the bays and the people. We connect the readings, the equipment and the paperwork around them, one room at a time, and we say so if we are not the right people.

  1. 01
    Walk the operation
    We come to the farm and walk the bays, the rooms, the yard and the packhouse with you, listening for the hold-up: the alarm nobody owns, the log nobody fills, the deadline that eats a weekend. We leave with a short list, not a proposal.
  2. 02
    Prove one connection
    We pilot one thing with your own equipment and your own people: the controller heartbeat on Bay 3, the cold-room sensors, the pump against the permit. A few weeks later you know whether it earns its place, from your readings, not our slides.
  3. 03
    Build on the result
    What earns its place stays and grows: the next room, the next machine, the crew's phones, the compliance calendar. What does not, we switch off. The climate computer keeps control throughout; the dashboard watches, tells and records.
Start with a real growing problem.

What should be
easier tomorrow?

A bay that takes too long to check at night. A cold-room log that lives on a clipboard. A report on the 15th that eats two days.

Pick everything that applies

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