The Saturn Platform · Component 05
CultivaTECH
Control System
A precision supervisory control platform for environments where science-grade management of irrigation, nutrient dosing, and climate is not optional. Built for commercial growing operations, research facilities, and specialist cultivation programmes.
The capability that defines CultivaTECH
7+ billion variable combinations per genetic profile.
Root zone and environment — fully interconnected, in real time.
The only control system that manages root zone and environmental variables as a single responsive matrix — calibrated to the genetic profile of every variety being grown.
Irrigation Control
Precision Delivery
Automated water delivery across multiple concurrent crop zones, responding to live environmental conditions in real time — not fixed timers.
- Responds to the plant's environment, not the clock: Every zone adjusts in real time to live climate conditions — not what a timer says should happen.
- Built-in failsafe protection: Irrigation locks automatically if the system detects any out-of-specification condition — crops protected without operator intervention.
- Named profiles, full event history: Irrigation presets saved and applied across zones, with complete timestamped records exportable for analysis and compliance.
Dosing Control
Nutrient Intelligence
Up to 24 independent nutrient and root zone treatment channels — each responding to every other variable across root zone and environment simultaneously.
"Every dose informed by the plant's actual environment. Every outcome verified before the next step."
- Up to 24 independent channels — one per nutrient component or root zone treatment: Each calibrated to a specific variety's requirements, not averaged across the system.
- Sensor-verified at every event: Solution accuracy confirmed before each cycle proceeds.
- Variety-specific protocols, saved and portable: Complete dosing configurations per variety, deployable across zones and installations.
Climate Control
Environmental Control
Multi-zone environmental management — ventilation, heating, fans, and misting — each zone independently configured with its own sensors, schedules, and control parameters.
- Every zone governed independently: No zone compromises another — each has its own sensors, schedules, and equipment configuration.
- Live outdoor conditions factored in: Weather station data feeds directly into control logic — ventilation, heating, and misting respond to what's happening outside as well as inside.
- Full environmental sensor suite, continuously logged: Every parameter your crop responds to — monitored and logged across all zones.
System & Infrastructure
Industrial Reliability
Designed for continuous unattended operation. Hardwired failsafe, tiered alarm system, and complete configuration portability — production-grade from day one.
- No control function depends on connectivity — ever: Fully autonomous local operation, independent of cloud services or internet access.
- Hardwired backup activates automatically: If the software layer is interrupted for any reason, an independent hardware layer maintains control — no operator action required.
- Tiered alarm system with remote notification: On-site signalling and automated alerts dispatched to configured site contacts. Full alarm history retained.
Interface & Access
Built for Production Teams
A unified dashboard suite accessible from any browser — on site or remotely. Role-based access ensures every user sees exactly what they need.
- Browser-based — any device, on site or remote: No proprietary terminals, no client software. Every module accessible from any authorised browser.
- Role-based access: Each user sees exactly what their role requires — from full administrative control to operational monitoring only.
- Complete data export: All operational records exportable — scope and format available on request.
Commercial Platform
Built for Scale
Subscription and modular licensing — supporting tiered configurations from single-site operations to multi-site enterprise deployments.
- Scales from a single research facility to multi-site enterprise: Flexible licensing — you pay for what your operation needs, nothing more.
- Full integration with FarmIntel Analytics Hub: Control system data feeds directly into financial, operational, compliance, and Deep Insights modules.
- Multilingual deployment: Available in multiple languages — built for global operations and diverse workforces.
6 years of development before commercial deployment
CultivaTECH Control was developed and trialled across real-world cultivation facilities for six years before commercial deployment — now live across 3 continents. Every control mechanism, safety interlock, failsafe, and redundancy was tested under production conditions — not simulated ones.
The result is a system that carries the reliability expected of production-grade infrastructure, without the legacy architecture that limits what the established platforms can do.
Built to flex, grow, and respond
CultivaTECH embraces the best available software and hardware technology to deliver optimal solutions at lower cost — and to remain agile where the incumbents cannot. Built to grow: new capabilities added continuously, and your specific needs can directly shape what we build next.
If your operation has a requirement no existing system has addressed, we want to hear it. That conversation is how the most differentiated capabilities in this platform were built.
Part of the Saturn platform:
Ready to see it?
The detail is in the demonstration.
Every capability on this page is best understood live — in the context of your crop, your facility, and your specific requirements.
Who it's built for
Built for those who need more than the standard.
"The established platforms were built to serve the widest possible market. That is their strength and their limitation. CultivaTECH was built from a different starting point — from the science outward, for the operations that need what the science actually demands."
When up to 24 independent dosing channels each respond in real time to the same live climate and root zone variables — simultaneously, calibrated to a specific genetic profile — the cultivation environment becomes something the major platforms were never designed to create. That is the difference between a control system and a precision cultivation instrument.
Research organisations
Corporate R&D programmes, university research facilities, and government agricultural institutions running trials that require genuine variable isolation — the ability to hold every parameter constant except the one being studied, at commercial scale, with full audit-grade data recording.
The precision that research demands
Specialist cultivators
Forestry nurseries, specialist propagators, rare cultivar producers, and high-value crop operations where standard protocols don't exist and generic systems can't be configured to the specificity required. Operations where the crop's genetic potential has never been fully expressed because the tools to do it haven't existed.
Where standard systems fall short
Progressive commercial growers
Commercial operations that have evaluated Priva, Ridder, Hoogendorn, and their equivalents — and decided that a system built for the average of their entire customer base is not adequate for the level of performance they intend to achieve. Operations that compete on crop quality and consistency, not commodity volume.
Beyond the incumbent standard
The next step
See the full system. Ask the hard questions.
Everything on this page is a starting point. The depth is in the conversation — not the website.
For researchers
Understand how the system supports your specific research methodology and data requirements. We'll walk through exactly what your programme requires.
For commercial growers
See how CultivaTECH performs against what you're running today. Live system demonstration available at GreenTech Amsterdam or at our demonstration facility.
For specialist operations
Bring us your specific protocol or challenge. We've built capabilities for requirements no existing system could address — and we'll tell you honestly what we can and cannot do.