&ever, formerly Farmers Cut, is a Germany-based company with a mission to transform the future of agriculture. Through technological innovation and agricultural digitalization, they aim to locally and sustainably grow delicious tasting salad vegetables without the use of harmful pesticides. It was founded in 2015 by Mark Korzilius and Isabel Molitor. The firm coined the term dryponic, the advanced cultivation technology implemented in their indoor farming system.

Dryponic Optimized with SAP HANA & SAP Cloud Platform 

The dryponic technology was envisioned to produce the freshest, highly-nutritional leafy greens with the roots intact and alive until consumption. This system—unlike hydroponic, aeroponic, and aquaponic—keeps the roots dry throughout by using a unique method where roots are exposed to higher amounts of oxygen vs. dissolved oxygen in water. This allows the indoor farm to use 90 percent less water than other traditional vertical farming systems and leads to overall better-growing conditions.

The process eliminates the risk of contamination due to algae growth. This also allows the firm the capability to ‘Harvest on Demand.’ With dryponic, they can produce the freshest salad vegetables by only harvesting them until the final moment of serving to customers. To ensure the highest quality, the produce is tasted directly from the growing trays by the &ever team.

Using this new cultivation technology, sustainable and continuous farming is made possible even in the middle of the Kuwaiti desert.

To fully automate and effectively control atmospheric conditions of the dryponic system, &ever turned to SAP partner IBSolution GmbH for support with SAP HANA and SAP Cloud Platform solutions. Utilizing the Internet of Things (IoT), data is collected from a number of sources in the farmhouse to monitor:

• seeding and germination
• CO2 levels
• atmosphere temperature
• humidity
• airflow

The collected data is then sent to SAP HANA’s in-memory database and analyzed on the SAP Cloud Platform to optimize production. With these technological solutions, &ever’s indoor farm can continuously produce up to 550 kilos of fresh greens and herbs a day.

With IBSolution’s SAP software implementation and development, plans are underway by &ever to expand its sustainable farms throughout Asia and Africa.

The Future of Agriculture

The agriculture technology innovation is set to become a US$700B market by 2030. This only means that like &ever, other agricultural businesses need to step up in delivering intelligent solutions that utilize AI and other technological advancements to produce sustainable and profitable food products. Supporting the future of agriculture is a mission that SAP Business solutions aim to address. Using SAP HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, and other disruptive technologies, SAP offers industry best practices and standards to prepare agribusinesses for the agriculture revolution by creating market valuation throughout the entire value chain.

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Created in collaboration with the SAP Co-Innovation Lab, Bangalore, the Reverse Osmosis Monitoring and Optimisation (ROMO) 1.0 has been certified by SAP as ‘Built on SAP HANA Cloud Platform’ .

The application is designed as a comprehensive IoT framework that can be easily applied to all asset maintenance scenarios. Though originally designed as a ready-to-deploy application specifically for wastewater treatment and thermal power generation units, the framework can easily be adapted to other asset-intensive industries, for diverse asset categories, including heat exchangers and boilers.

The ROMO solution is built to capture machine-generated data from sensors in reverse osmosis plants, to provide real-time analytics to the plant operations manager, particularly on the performance of membranes in the water treatment plant. ROMO has been designed to predict and prevent membrane failure by monitoring membrane fouling and deterioration.

The efficiency and effectiveness of an RO plant is critical in the power or process industry, as unplanned outages can cause efficiency and productivity losses in the millions of dollars. The solution aims to improve plant efficiency by up to 20 per cent, reducing operation cost up to 25 per cent, and saving up to 50 per cent of membrane replacement cost.

“We are happy to support Birlasoft’s idea to address membrane failure and its prediction in reverse osmosis water treatment plants,” said Rudolf Held, global head of SAP Co-Innovation Lab, SAP SE. “Birlasoft engineers worked on our SAP HANA Cloud Platform to help provide a comprehensive set of tools and libraries to design and deploy applications that can apply advanced analytical processing across large volumes and varieties of data from different sources, including remote device sensors, to enable IoT scenarios.”

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Built on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP), the first new service is designed to simplify access governance and to help organisations centrally manage identities and assess and mitigate risks to optimise compliance processes across the enterprise.

“We are building upon our extensive experience with GRC and security to help customers harness the latest security and performance benefits of SAP HANA Cloud Platform,” said Kevin McCollom, head of solution management for GRC solutions, SAP.

SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance is designed to optimise user system assignments to align with both organisation and compliance policies. According to SAP, the service will help businesses avoid potential expensive access issues such as those involving financial losses and fraud. At the same time, it will reduce the ongoing operating costs of auditing and compliance.

The cloud deployment will ensure that businesses can quickly identify and address critical access issues as well as potentially costly segregation-of-duty conflicts. Customers will have the ability to dynamically refine or remove incorrect or unused user roles, which will enable organisations to lower audit costs while ensuring ongoing compliance.

The new access analysis service, scheduled for general release in Q3 2016, will work in conjunction with existing cloud identity solution, SAP HCP single sign-on, which provides cloud-based secure authentication. Together, they are designed to help organisations simplify identity management across a cloud and on-premise environment.

The new series of services is being designed to be employed independently or in combination, enabling organisations to expand their identity and access governance services to match their own functional requirements and pace of growth.

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