Ecoation

Technology is now an integral part of modern agriculture. Farmers are under increasing pressure to maximize yields, conserve resources, and navigate the uncertainties of climate change.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is addressing these challenges and revolutionizing agriculture by providing precise solutions that optimize crop management, improve resource efficiency, and help farmers adapt to climate variability, ultimately fostering more sustainable and resilient farming practices.

Ecoation, a trailblazing company, is at the forefront of this revolution. By combining AI with Intelligence Augmentation (IA), Ecoation empowers growers to make smarter decisions and achieve precision farm management. This synergy between cutting-edge technology and agricultural expertise is reshaping how farming is approached and optimized.

Founded by agricultural visionary Dr. Saber Miresmailli, Ecoation views AI not as a replacement for human expertise but as a powerful ally. The company blends AI with IA to amplify growers’ knowledge and intuition, recognizing that agriculture is as much an art as it is a science. While many agricultural technologies prioritize automation, Ecoation focuses on empowering growers, ensuring that human insight remains central to decision-making.

Ecoation’s IPM and Yield Forecasting platform exemplifies this philosophy. As a leading greenhouse forecasting tool, it distils vast amounts of data into actionable insights, providing growers with enhanced operational visibility. By assisting decision-making and scaling success, Ecoation’s platform enables farmers to adapt, thrive, and lead in a rapidly changing agricultural landscape.

The Power of AI and IA in Agriculture

Ecoation’s technology operates at the critical intersection of data and decision-making. At the heart of its platform is an AI-powered brain that revolutionizes crop monitoring by continuously collecting and analyzing real-time data. Unlike traditional methods—such as paper-based manual inspections, generalized weather data, and time-intensive soil testing—this advanced system provides growers with precise insights into environmental conditions, plant health, and early signs of stress. By identifying potential issues like pests, diseases, or nutrient imbalances before they escalate, AI-driven solutions enable proactive intervention, enhancing both productivity and sustainability. Paired with Intelligent Augmentation, these technologies represent the future of farming, transforming agriculture into a data-driven, efficient, and resilient industry.

But what makes Ecoation’s system unique is the integration of IA. While AI excels at identifying patterns and crunching vast amounts of data, it is humans who bring judgment and creative problem-solving to the table. Ecoation’s system acts as a bridge between AI’s analytical power and human expertise, offering actionable insights while ensuring growers remain in control.
For example, an AI-powered platform might flag a section of crops showing unusual signs of stress. On its own, AI could suggest a variety of causes, from water deficiency to disease. However, a seasoned grower can use their judgment and knowledge of the crop to pinpoint the root issue—perhaps deliberate plant stress to control ripening or a market-driven strategy. Ecoation’s platform enhances this process, offering tools to rapidly analyze data while keeping decision-making firmly in the hands of the grower.

“AI alone is incomplete,” explains Dr. Miresmailli. “In agriculture, context is everything. Our platform ensures growers have access to the best information, but it is their expertise that drives decisions.”

Comprehensive Services for Modern Agriculture

At its core, Ecoation offers a versatile suite of solutions designed to address two critical challenges in agriculture: pest and disease outbreaks and yield forecasting, enabling farmers to address problems proactively. These tools integrate artificial intelligence, sensors, and biology, ensuring that farming is more productive and safer for both people and the planet.

As Dr. Miresmailli puts it, “The secret to staying ahead lies in seeing what’s coming, adjusting swiftly, and moving with purpose before anyone else.” This philosophy underscores Ecoation’s forward-thinking approach, placing innovation and sustainability at the forefront of its mission.

Its tools use advanced algorithms to predict the timing, location, and severity of potential pest and disease outbreaks. These insights allow farmers to take pre-emptive action, reducing pesticide reliance and encouraging sustainable farming practices. The company also offers yield forecasting solutions, initially focused on tomatoes and peppers grown in greenhouses. These services are now expanding to strawberries, with additional crops like olives and citrus under development.

Ecoation’s tools are not limited to greenhouse farming. They have been successfully implemented in berry farms and other agricultural settings, including collaborative projects with the Spanish government to address olive and citrus farming challenges.

Furthermore, Ecoation’s collaboration with Mucci Farms, one of North America’s largest greenhouse producers, prominent Belgian and Spanish operations, and Biobest, a global leader in biological control agents, ensures farmers benefit from a comprehensive, full-cycle approach to their challenges, combining digital innovation with practical remedies.

Real-World Applications: Speed, Precision, and Efficiency

Ecoation’s platform transforms agricultural workflows by reducing the time between problem detection and intervention. Traditionally, it could take days or even weeks to identify issues such as pest outbreaks or plant diseases. Ecoation’s AI-powered platform detect patterns of upcoming issues in real-time, allowing growers to act almost immediately. This capability not only prevents crop loss but also optimizes resource use, such as water, pesticides, and fertilizers.

For example, Ecoation’s technology in greenhouse environments identifies microclimates that may accelerate pest growth or disease spread. Armed with these insights, growers can intervene before the problem escalates. Early detection means fewer chemicals are required, reducing costs and promoting sustainable practices.

This approach is particularly transformative for remote operations. Ecoation enables growers to manage farms across regions and continents without being physically present. A grower in Canada can monitor and control operations in Japan, Morocco, or Mexico using real-time data and insights. This level of precision ensures consistency and quality, even as operations scale globally.

The Human-in-the-Loop Model

Ecoation’s success lies in its human-in-the-loop model—a design philosophy that places humans at the center of the decision-making process. While some technologies strive for full automation, Ecoation sees technology as a collaborator, not a replacement. The system provides growers with tools to make faster, better-informed decisions without removing their role as experts.

Dr. Miresmailli draws a parallel to healthcare: “AI can analyze a patient’s vital signs and flag anomalies, but it takes a doctor to interpret those results in context. Similarly, in agriculture, growers provide the intuition and judgment needed to complement AI’s precision.”

The model builds trust among users. Growers don’t feel sidelined by the technology; instead, they feel empowered. Ecoation’s tools are designed to amplify the grower’s abilities— helping them detect problems faster, optimize workflows, and scale operations without compromising control.

Resilience through Technology

For many, Ecoation’s technology became a lifeline during the recent pandemic. The platform ensured continuity and productivity during an unprecedented crisis by enabling remote monitoring and decision-making. This experience sparked a broader realization within the agricultural community: technology is no longer optional.

Ecoation’s AI and IA solutions proved that farms could not only survive disruptions but also thrive. Growers who once managed local operations are now scaling their expertise globally, opening new farms across continents with confidence that their systems will deliver consistent results.

“Our goal is to honor the grower’s legacy,” says Dr. Miresmailli. “Technology provides speed, precision, and data, but humans bring the creativity, intuition, and vision that make agriculture an art as much as a science.”

A Growing Global Presence

The company’s innovative approach has earned it a solid global presence. After successful trials in Canada, Mucci Farms adopted Ecoation’s technology, making it their exclusive digital partner across operations in Canada and the U.S. A prominent Belgian agricultural enterprise scaled Ecoation’s tools across eight European locations following an initial trial. Similarly, one of Spain’s largest cooperatives with more than 24,000 hectares of operations, is now testing Ecoation’s technology which can lead to transforming practices in one of the largest agricultural regions in southern Europe.

Ecoation has built long-term partnerships and fostered trust with farmers worldwide by starting with small-scale trials and proving tangible value. Its ability to adapt solutions to specific regional challenges has further strengthened its reputation as a global leader in proactive farming technologies.






Innovating for the Future

Ecoation continues to push boundaries in agriculture by enhancing its AI capabilities and developing more intuitive user interfaces. The company’s commitment to sustainability remains central, and every innovation aims to make farming safer, more efficient, and environmentally friendly.

Client feedback plays an essential role in the company’s development process, ensuring its tools remain practical and aligned with the evolving needs of modern agriculture. The company’s vision for the future includes expanding its yield forecasting services to additional crops and scaling its solutions to new markets.

Ecoation is redefining modern agriculture through a seamless blend of AI and IA. By enhancing decision-making, improving efficiency, and enabling global scalability, the company is empowering growers to achieve more than ever before. This is not a story of machines replacing humans; it is a story of collaboration— one where technology and human expertise work together to build a more resilient, productive, and sustainable future for agriculture.