edyza sensors for indoor farming

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We make farming possible everywhere

Edyza OverviewFebruary 2016

Proprietary and Confidential


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The Edyza Offering

Edyza is an indoor farming operating systemthat improves yield and productivity using its

sensor networks, data analytics, and control systems.

We make farming possible everywhere.

© Edyza Sensors, Inc. | Proprietary and Confidential


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Market


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Agriculture is in transformation

In a world where 870 million people go to bedhungry every night (UN, 2012), 1.4 billionpeople are overweight (WHO, 2008), arableland, fresh water and fertilizers are scarce it isclear that innovative solutions are needed .

Food and agriculture accounts for about 5of the global GDP. Global food retail salealone account for about $4 trillion/year, afood accounts for 15% of what Americanhouseholds spend each year. It is anripe for disruption.

By 2050, nearly 80 percent of the global

population, or roughly 7 billion people, will livein urban areas. The world will need 1 billionmore hectares of arable land by 2050.

With natural resource scarcity, flattening

loss of biodiversity, changing climate, anbooming urban populations, our current fsystem is rapidly approaching its natura



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Production value of these crops is staggering

$9.3 billion

Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) for 2013

Plant factories can become a meaningful source of produce

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Crops that can be commercially grown in controlled

systemsBaby Squash Bell Peppers Cantalo

Chile Peppers European Cucumbers

Head Lettuce Leaf Lettuce Romain

Spinach Tomatoes Strawb

Mushrooms 1Source: “Alternative Greenhouse Crops – Florida Greenhouse Vegetable Productio3”, R. Hochmuth and D. Cantliffe. 1 These are included from other research


Source: Winter Green Research: Vertical Farming, Plant Factory Market Shares, Strategies,and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020

Plant Factory Market


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Japanese tech companies are driving farming automation

Toshiba has converted theirdisk factories to indoorvertical farms capable ofmaking 3 million heads oflettuce per year.

Fujitsu grows 3,000 headsof lettuce a day that sell forthree times the price ofother lettuce near theFukushima nuclear disaster.

Spread Vegetable Factorywill produce 20,000 headsof lettuce per day usingrobots to fully automate theprocess.

Sharp announcedramp up an expewhich berries area hermetically selit with Sharp’s pefficient LED lig



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Urban farming startups are launching across the US



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Inefficiencies



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Existing indoor farming sensor technology is costly, bulky andinefficient


Light intensitymeasurementMonitoring uniform lightingconditions around plants iscrucial to ensure that the plantsgrow predictably. Existing wiredsolutions are costly and bulky.

Excessive energyconsumptionCurrently available sensorsolutions require power cablesthat add to the alreadyexcessive energy usage inindoor farms.

Airflow measurementMaintaining uniform airflowaround plants is crucial toensure adequate CO2concentration around plants.Existing solutions do not havecost effective solutions.

Wired sensorsLong wires from the sensor tothe controller degrades signalto noise ratio resulting in badmeasurements.

Sensor densityExisting solutions are notdesigned to incorporate perplant sensor density.

Remote maintenanceSolutions on the market arehard coded and are notupdatable over the air forcalibration or for featureenhancements.


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Solution Overview


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Edyza provides an indoor farming operating system

Control Systems

Data Analytics

Sensor Networks

• Sensor networks collect environmental data for the three essential elements ofphotosynthesis and other useful data

• Air: Humidity, Temperature, CO2, Air Circulation• Lighting: Wavelength, Light-dark Cycle, Light Distribution, Illuminance• Water: Nutrient Solution Blend, Quantity, pH Levels, Electrical Conductivity (EC)• Additional data collection: Camera, Electricity usage

• Data analytics merges layers of data to create a comprehensive view of the farmingoperation

• First-party sensor data• Farmer provided inputs• Farm production and yield• Other third-party data sources

• Control systems allow the actuation of hardware within the farm ecosystem• Lighting• HVAC and other air systems• Water and nutrient flow• Camera and other ancillary systems



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Edyza first had to overcome technical limits


PowerSensors are powered bybatteries that need to bereplaced or that degrade aftertoo many charge cycles.

ConnectivitySensors require power-hungryconnectivity to provide any realvalue because they are “dumb”.

ComputingSensors are not programmableto perform any meaningfulcomputations individually orcollectively.

MaintenanceMaintenance/calibration isrequired for large-scale and out-of-range deployments

Network SaturationM2M hardware and services arebeing created to allow everysensor to connect to theinternet.

Cloud dependenceCloud services are required toperform the heavy-lifting fordumb data that is collected.


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Edyza sensors unique ambient energy harvesters store power in supercapacitors

Solved for Power


Photovoltaic (Solar)

Radio Frequency

Kinetic (Vibration)

Thermal Supercapacitor

Processor

• Hardware floating point units afast computation to save powe

• Machine learning to optimize favailable power (intake + stora

• Supercapacitors store energybetween electrostatic force allomillions of charge cycles withdegradation

• Store excess power for low amenergy periods


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Intelligent wireless mesh networking enables sensor networks to function without cloud

Solved for Connectivity


Auto-switching between various wirelessphysical layers to connect to sensors, hubs,gateways and even smart phones.

Mesh network allows our sensors to haveunlimited range without needing a SIM card onevery sensor

Our patent-pending smart mesh algorithmbalance the utilization of any individual rpath thereby improving network reliability

Real-time monitoring of sensor health, OTupdates enable large scale deployment ofsensors


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Virtual machines on sensors and workflow engine on gateways

Solved for Computing


Virtual machine on each sensor nodeabstract hardware differences

With over-the-air (OTA) capability andreal-time network monitoring, we candeploy and update applications onhundreds of sensors

Our workflow engine powered byNodeRED allows rapid deployment Apps geared for sensor networks tharun entirely within the fog or inconjunction with cloud for data anal


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Products and Services


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Edyza provides the first ever truly end-to-end solution

System-on-Module Node Hub Gateway CloudCombines energy harvesting, low-

power connectivity, andcomputation and exists in all our

nodes

Grouped sensors withinenergy harvesting or battery

powered nodes withprocessors

Hub-and-spoke meshnetworking to bridge Wi-Fi

and low-powered ANT+connectivity

Fog-enabled and cloud-connected, with local MQTTbroker and workflow engine

Centralized damanage all

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• Manage all gateways, hubs, sensor nodes• Update firmware and software via over-the-

air (OTA) updates• Monitor all system and sensor status, traffic,

connectivity strength, and sensor data• Map how all devices connect to each other• Visualize message through-put and sensor

data in real-time graphs

Control all aspects of farm deployments using a powerful dashboard


Edyza Dashboard


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Edit and load python code that runs within VMs on nodes


Edyza Sensor Node Virtual Machine Editor

• Python layer abstracts complexities ofhardware programming

• Access all functionality of the underliningsensors within each node

• Perform computation and utilize locallystored data

• Server-side versioning• Console-based debugging

* Primarily used by Edyza staff and partners and is availableto advanced clients


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• Built from NodeRED open source framework• Supports unlimited custom workflows• Routes MQTT data to and from sensor

networks• Connects to third-party cloud endpoints• Control any connected device with

subscriptions

Integrate with any proprietary or third-party fog or cloud service


Edyza Workflow Engine


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Gateway Hub NodesFog-enabled and cloud-

connected, with local MQTTbroker and workflow engine

Hub-and-spoke meshnetworking to bridge Wi-Fi

and low-powered ANT+connectivity

Grouped sensors within energy harvesting or battery powered nodes with processor

Full suite of gateway, hubs, and nodes for every aspect of indoor farming

Edyza Sensor Network


CentipedePressure &Vibration

GnatNon-invasive

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LadybugCO2Barometric PressureTemperatureHumidityLight


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• CO2: 0 to 2,000 ppm• Barometric Pressure: 260hPa to 1260 hPa• Temperature: -25 to +55 °C• Humidity: 0 to 95% RH• Light: Visible (640nm peak) and Infrared (940

nm peak)

“Lady Bug” is our first prototype multi-sensor node


Edyza “Ladybug”

Rotatable solar panels to capturemaximum ambient light


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Hardware Components


Gateway & HubCPU

Primary Sensornode CPU

EnergyHarvesting

CO2 Sensor Super Cap Light Se

WiFi/3G/EthernetSupport, Fully

functional Linux

ARM Cortex M4,Hardware Floatingpoint, ANT+/BLE

Solar, Thermal,Kinetic, RF

CO2+RH/T0-5000ppm

Power storage1.5F

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Visible S

Broadcom Nordic Semi.NRF52832TI

BQ25570Gas Sensing

Solution PanasonicT

TSL


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Hardware Components (continued)


Pressure Sensor Current Sensor Humidity Sensor pH Sensor Soil Moisture Sensor

26kPa ~ 126kPa < 100A 0-100% RH pH 0-14 EleCond0-100% co

ST Micro.LPS25HB

YHDCSCT013

TE Connect.HPP845E031R4 Vernier Sensor Custom


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Company


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Senior Staff Scientist at B

Signal IC Designer, MinTechnologies

Mixed Design Engineer MicroSemi

Principal scientist at Broadcom

Embedded systems manager atGarmin

Senior Software Engineer at Hughes

Published transactions/journalspapers on indoor wireless localizationand networking

CEO/Founder of OneScreen ($17mexit)

Cofounder LeadiD ($8m funded byGenacast and Comcast Ventures)

Cofounder of Optimal ($35m exit)

Rana Basheer, PhDFounder & CEO

Atul PatelCofounder

Nader Kalantari, PhDCofounder

Founders have over a decade of experience in hardware andsoftware



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Business Model


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Edyza’s business encompasses hardware, software and data

Sensor Networks

• We sell gateways, hubs, andnodes at a conservativemargin to increase adoption.

• Sensor network andhardware monitoring andmaintenance.

Data Analytics

• We aggregate and sell third-party data associated tovertical farming such asplant-specific optimalgrowing patterns.

• Monthly subscription andadditional fees based onthird-party data.

Control Syste

• We partner with thirair, light, and water hto optimize indoor faautomatically.

• Revenue share with providers.


Channel PartnersWe are working with channel partners to sell our offering or a white-labelled version to their customer base.


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Fundraising

Edyza has been bootstrapped until now, but we are now positionedfor outside investments.


Funding Amount Use of Proceeds (12 months)We are seeking $650,000 seed investments inthe form of convertible note or priced round.

This will allow us to launch our agriculture stack

based on the Edyza core over the course of thenext 12 months with pilots already beingplanned. Additionally, we have key patentswritten up in the area of energy aware meshnetworking, contactless moisture sensingtechnique, sensor shadowing during downtime.

StaffSales &MarketingHardware

Legal/PatentsOther Expenses

Total

$285,000$65,000

$150,000$45,000

$45,000

$590,000


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Contact

Rana [email protected]

Atul [email protected]

Nader [email protected]

Webedyza.com

Twitter@edyzasensors



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Edyza on Mars


I have to figure out how to grow four years worth of food, here, on aplanet where nothing grows.

I am going to have to science the shit out of this.

Mark WatneyThe Martian ( movie )

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