Cracking the data to
mitigate fruit cracking
Advanced sensing and data technologies for real-time monitoring and fruit cracking risk assessment
Fruit cracking is a costly and persistent challenge for farmers, with limited options for mitigation measures. This physiological phenomenon primarily arises during the pre-harvest stage, compromising fruit appearance, allowing water loss and pathogen invasion, decreasing fruit shelf life, marketability and causing a significant yield loss worldwide.
The rising global demand for increased food production, consumer preferences for larger and sweeter fruits, and climate instability resulting in exacerbation of the fruit cracking occurrence, highlight the importance of addressing this challenge.
CrackSense steps in!
Yield losses along the entire production chain endanger the challenge of feeding the world. Climate changes, characterized by extreme climatic events with increased incidence and strength, dramatically increase yield losses. A significant source of yield losses is fruit cracking, which has dramatically increased in the last two decades, probably due to climate change. CrackSense embraces Smart Farming concepts to mitigate fruit yield losses due to cracking. It combines Information and Communication Technologies into agriculture, leading to a Third Green Revolution. CrackSense introduces multimodal sensor data in the experimental portfolio of agriculture and implements data fusion and Machine Learning on edge units for real-time information, potentially providing a cyber-physical system. 
Victor Alchanatis, D.Sc.
Researcher Institute of Agricultural Engineering, The Agricultural Research Organisation Of Israel - The Volcani Centre
Avi Sadka, Ph,D.
Professor of plant sciences
The Agricultural Research Organisation
Of Israel - The Volcani Centre