Verdance Field Report — Season 06
Verdance is a control layer for mid-scale growers. It reads the canopy, predicts the week, moves the vents, and writes down every decision it made — so the crop is never the only record of what happened.
01 Sense
Battery-free nodes clip to the trellis wire and harvest power from the grow lights. Each one returns leaf temperature, stomatal proxy, PAR at three heights and stem micro-variation — every ninety seconds, all season.
02 Model
The growth model ingests the mesh, the local forecast and your own cultivar history, then projects harvest windows as bands rather than lines. You get a range you can staff against, not a number that flatters the demo.
03 Act
Verdance speaks Modbus and 0–10 V, so it drives the hardware you already own. Every actuation is bounded by envelopes you set by hand — the system may act fast, but never outside your fence.
04 Learn
Each harvest closes a ring: setpoints, interventions, weather anomalies and the fruit that came of it. Six rings in, the model stops guessing at your house and starts arguing with you from evidence.
05 Share
Opt in and your house compares itself to forty others in the same light band. Opt out and nothing leaves the building. Either way, your data exports whole on the day you ask for it — contracts do not hold crops hostage.
A slice of the public benchmark. Figures are median values across each cohort, normalised to a 4,000 m² glasshouse and rounded for legibility.
| Cohort | Crop | Yield Δ | Water Δ | Energy Δ | Houses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern light band | Vine tomato | +21.8% | −34% | −12% | 96 |
| Coastal humid | Cucumber | +17.2% | −29% | −9% | 74 |
| Continental dry | Sweet pepper | +19.9% | −38% | −15% | 118 |
| Highland cool | Leafy mix | +12.4% | −22% | −6% | 63 |
| Urban rooftop | Herbs | +24.1% | −41% | −18% | 61 |