Caja Rural facilitates the arrival of ‘Aracnocóptero’ to Salamanca field
05 Sep 2014
Caja Rural de Salamanca and the Salamanca-based company Arbórea Intellbird, developer of the remotely piloted arachnocopter system, signed an agreement to apply this disruptive technology to improve the countryside.
Arborea Intellbird S.L, a company owned by Iberdrola and CDTI, is located in the Scientific Park of the University of Salamanca within the Hispano-Luso Centre for Agricultural Research (CIALE), and integrates leading researchers in applications for the primary sector. Its purpose is the manufacture of Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems, as well as training and associated services. The arachnocopter platform provides great value as a disruptive innovative technology for remote sensing and diagnosis for very diverse applications in the agriculture, livestock and forestry sectors.
Caja Rural de Salamanca is committed to promoting innovation since the technical development of the agricultural-livestock world increasingly requires that professionals in the sector control the characteristics and conditions of crops, as well as those of the products they obtain, and in a very special way, to make knowledge and experiences available to the owners of agricultural and livestock farms, resulting in the greatest social and economic enrichment of the sector in the region.
Arbórea has the capacity to develop specific systems to generate improvements in primary sector farms based on aerial remote sensing of any problem in order to enable greater efficiency in the assessment of incidents in the primary sector.
Caja Rural de Salamanca and Arbórea, jointly, presented this technology at the Salamanq 2014 Fair, so that CRSA members and clients, as well as professionals in the sector in our Community, can evaluate its application. The managers of Aracnocóptero and Caja Rural de Salamanca focus their joint efforts on increasing productive and economic yields, promoting the maintenance and improvement of an agricultural activity compatible with sustainable development.
Source: salamanca24horas.com
