For operators
Not every greenhouse is a candidate. We would rather establish that in a morning than discover it during commissioning.
Being explicit about this early avoids the most common failure in retrofit projects, which is a supplier quietly taking on work they are not equipped to do.
The reason for the third point is straightforward. The moment a control supplier also earns margin on the equipment, their assessment of your equipment stops being trustworthy. We would rather keep the assessment worth something.
The assessment
Each site is assessed against what the control layer can genuinely reach. The result is a written verdict, delivered before any commitment on either side.
The site supports the system as designed.
Part of the site is excluded, and named explicitly.
Specified work must happen before we begin.
We say so, give the reason, and stop.
Size of the house, crops grown, and what controls it today. Often enough to tell you whether this is worth either of our time.
We walk the house and the electrical infrastructure, and establish what can actually be reached and driven.
One of the four outcomes above, with reasoning. If it is a decline, you owe us nothing and you have learned something useful.
Control strategy, panel design, instrument schedule, and the protective behaviour with its timings stated explicitly.
We build the panel. The electrical works are carried out to our specification and inspected against it.
We demonstrate the failure behaviour in front of you — connection loss, software stop, sensor fault — rather than describing it.
Documentation, training for the people who will actually operate it, and a defined route when something needs attention.
Broadly, a house is an easy candidate when its equipment is already switched electrically and its movable parts can report where they are. Vents and screens with position feedback, fans and pumps on contactors, a distribution board with room to work in.
Sites become harder when equipment is manually operated with no electrical control at all, when existing panels have no capacity or documentation, or when equipment is old enough that spares no longer exist. None of these is automatically fatal. All of them are the sort of thing the survey exists to find.
AgriKoda is an Estonian company working in English and Arabic. Our engineering focus began with the GCC, where the conditions the platform was built for are the everyday case rather than the exception — but nothing about the system is specific to one region. It applies wherever climate control decides whether a crop makes it, from Gulf glasshouses to indoor and vertical operations elsewhere.
