SpotLite360 IOT Solutions Inc has been contracted by E3 Service Group LLC to provide professional services to develop Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensors as well as corresponding software applications to gather and leverage data collected on a continuous basis.
Established in 2012, E3 develops, designs, and builds cannabis cultivation facilities with a focus on optimally configuring heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) infrastructure to create an ideal environment for growing cannabis plants.
SpotLite360 said E3’s primary business objective in working with the company is to harvest a wide range of data from cultivation facilities through IoT sensors, and incorporate such metrics into supply chain workflows, which could be used for making business decisions.
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Following the initial execution of this approach, SpotLite360 said it and E3 intend to expand the use of IoT sensors into more granular aspects of cannabis cultivation (irrigation effectiveness, seed performance, etc.).
SpotLite360 said it intends to work directly with E3 to develop a technological infrastructure for the purpose of aggregating readings from IoT sensors made by a variety of providers, in addition to SpotLite360’s existing hardware integrations.
By offering the option to consolidate these data feeds, Spotlite 360 said E3 can provide greater value to its clients that operate indoor cannabis cultivation facilities in several US states including Colorado, Oklahoma, Michigan, and Florida.
During the annual MJBizCon trade show in October 2021 in Las Vegas, SpotLite360 noted that it co-sponsored a social function with E3, creating the opportunity for several connections to be made with cannabis industry players who can benefit from E3’s offerings, as well as the IoT data aggregation enhancements to be made available to E3 clients.
“The team behind E3 has been instrumental to the success of hundreds of cannabis cultivation sites across the United States,” said SpotLite360 CEO James Greenwell in a statement.
“By taking an interdisciplinary approach to developing cultivation facilities for long-term success, E3 has an impressive engineering track record underpinned by an unparalleled familiarity with leading-edge technologies such as blockchain and IoT. We are excited to create efficiencies by consolidating data from a wide range of IoT sensor models while empowering E3’s clients to maximize the value they can derive from information they can effortlessly collect using the IoT sensors of their choice.”
Bryson Guyer, founder of E3, said commercial-scale cannabis growing is a sophisticated discipline in which data about the environment where the crop is grown is an extremely valuable resource.
"Measuring attributes such as temperature and humidity is relatively easy with legacy instruments and technology, however, IoT sensors are proving increasingly popular for automatically taking readings around the clock, thus allowing for an unparalleled level of insight," Guyer said. "We look forward to working with SpotLite360 to create an advanced bespoke IoT solution for our clients, who will be able to benefit from exceptionally simplified data-harvesting capabilities as yet another defining feature of our world-class cultivation spaces.”
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