Intelligent Precision Spraying

The new WEED-IT refers to the four detection zones of every sensor, each accounting for 25 cm of the entire spray boom width. The extra small zones with improved optics make sure the system never misses any weeds. Whereas this additional accuracy is easily missed by the human eye, the new blue LED-lighting is not. Blue LED-lighting has proven to be more sensitive to weeds and less sensitive to background noise and thus more efficient compared to the red LED-lighting used to date.

Adding to the increased accuracy and efficiency is the new dual core processor for quick communication and high sampling frequency. This guarantees higher communication speeds that would be needed to enable VRA, weed and biomass mapping, and working with application maps in the future.

​Intelligent sensors sample the ground 40,000 times per second searching for living plant matter up to speeds of 15mph. The ground speed is measured and will adjust application timing so that the target is within the spray pattern.

WEED-IT runs on a standard 12-volt system. The power is connected directly to the battery and runs to an interface box. The interface box does many tasks, one of them is to invert 12 volts up to 48 volts. A low voltage system suffers high power loss over large distances, so to overcome this WEED-IT inverts 12 volts to higher voltage levels so that power loss across large 120ft booms is minimized.