BioScout: Real-time Disease Monitoring and Forecasting

BioScout was recently announced as the first recipient of funding through the Hort Innovation Venture Fund launched in late 2024, delivered in partnership with Artesian Venture Partners, and created to accelerate innovation across the horticulture sector by investing in early-stage, high-growth startups. In a real-life South Australian vineyard case study, a BioScout unit was deployed to measure airborne fungal spores and data from the BioScout system showed that most of the products applied (51 out of the 54) were unnecessary.