Naiomi Borger, Director of Information Systems at Precision AI tells us all about her company's AI and drone technology and how that tech will impact the ag sector in the future.

1. We’re changing farming. Forever.
Data for Good – Meetup - March 30th, 2021

3. Naiomi Borger
Director, Information Systems - Precision AI Inc.
Started - August 2020
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▪ 20 yrs working as a business, technology and GIS professional
▪ Post Graduate Degree – Business GIS (COGS, Nova Scotia)
▪ Bachelor’s Degree – Geography (University of Regina)

4. Daniel McCann
Founder & CEO
▪ Serial Entrepreneur
▪ Founder, NetSecure
(sold to AnywhereCommerce in 2018)
▪ Founder, 5Thru
▪ SK Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist
▪ Company mentioned in Peter Thiel’s - Zero to One
Precision AI Inc.
Founded 2018
▪ 24 Employees and 10 contractors
▪ Headquartered in Regina, Sk
▪ Employees:
Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton Calgary, India and Egypt

5. To create intelligence that eliminates chemical residue in our food supply
to make healthier, safer food for everyone.
Our Mission

6. The Problem…….

7. “By 2050, our total population is projected to grow to
almost 10 billion people and it is estimated that 70%
more food will be needed in 2050 than was
produced in 2009”
- The Economist, 2016

8. If we want to feed the world,
we need to grow food smarter

9. Food production is fundamentally changing…
• Consumers are demanding healthier ingredients
• Commodities that contain trace chemical residues are being rejected by global grain
buyers.
• This trend is increasing, creating a problem for broad-acre producers who rely on
broadcast application of chemical for yield protection.
• A new market is emerging for a “premium commodity” that sits between conventional
farming and organic farming. (the sustainably grown food market)

10. The Typical Farm
$57,600
(1,500 acres)
Annual Overspend on Chemical Herbicide
Domestically
$12.5B
Globally
$34B

11. This essential activity represents almost
30% of crop input costs for farmers.
The Problem:
Up to 80% of spray in a broadcast chemical
application is wasted on bare soil.

12. Our Solution…..

13. Precision.ai | Sask Business Minute - YouTube
October 2020

14. Weed Map Generated
Drone Flight of Grower’s Field
- Drone/Camera collecting field image map (computer vsion)
- Ground Control System - flight plan, field survey & work order
- AI Models deployed/processing in the ‘Brain Box’ on the Drone
- AI model identifies weeds
- Polygons attributed to images
- Precise Coordinate locations of weeds are generated
- Weed map generates polygon data to create Rx map
- Polygons identify spray location needs
- SHP/XML file generated to feed existing sprayer systems
Prescription Map Generated
Grower Sprays & Chemical is Applied
- Polygons identify spray locations needed
- SHP/XML file is delivered to existing sprayer systems
PRECISION AI’S PRODUCT 1 - AI SUBSCRIBED GROUND SPRAYERS

15.  Product 1 for ground sprayers accesses a farmer’s existing sectional and nozzle control and amplifies it with
Precision AI’s Artificial Intelligence Platform - automatically turning off the spray nozzles where the weeds aren’t
ADVANTAGES
- No sprayer modifications required
- Estimated 50% in Chemical savings
- Green on Brown – Spraying everything that's growing (early season)
- Green on Green – In Crop wheat and canola that targets only your weeds
- Edge A.I. (no internet connectivity required)
PRECISION AI’S PRODUCT 1 - AI SUBSCRIBED GROUND SPRAYERS
(AVAILABLE PRE-LAUNCH 2022)

16. Our System In Action – Fall 2020
- Spraying can happen almost immediately, as everything is performed in real-time on the drone itself.
- Reduce chemical input costs by up to 50%, without altering the farmer’s workflow.
- Do what they do today, only 50% cheaper!

17. The AI…..

18. Disruptive Technology
• High performance AI system capable of
identifying over 24,000 species of plants
• Real-time weed/crop detection at up to
60km/hr ground speed.
• Intelligent Drones with onboard AI
• “See and spray” on a drone in real-time!
• Operates up to 3x faster than ground
sprayers

19. Object Detection & Plant Species Classification
Treat only the weeds, not the crop – uses up to 95% less spray.

21. AI/ML DATA FLOW
AWS INFRASTRUCTURE
CROP MODELS ARE TRAINED ON
1,000’S OF IMAGES
WE HAVE SPECIALIZED
AGRONOMISTS WORKING WITH
OUR AI TEAM TO ANNOTATE THE
IMAGES

22. The Data…..

23. Some Fun Data Stats….
▪ Crop Images are taken at 0.5 mm resolution
▪ Drone captures images at an altitude of up to 7 metres and flies at speeds up to 60 Km/Hr
▪ We are capturing massive amounts of data – 7.77 TB of raw data per 1/4 section (160 acres)
▪ Approx. 250,000 images are taken per 1/4 section
▪ We are using PostGres to store our Relational data from the fields, images are stored in a file
system on our brain box and then processing takes place in an Amazon S3 Data Lake
▪ We have 580,000 images collected to date and we will be adding millions of more images this
Spring

24. Video

25. The Market…..

26. Servicing the Customer (once per season):
1. At the start of the growing season,
The farmer inputs their crop type(s)
into the app, and pays the annual fee
for the AI model license.
2. After payment is received,
the Precision.ai cloud dynamically
provisions the optimal AI model
for their crop type, soil type, and region.
3. The personalized AI model is
automatically downloaded
(over LTE or WiFi) to the
Precision.ai “Brain Box”
on the on-site drone

27. Changing the Economics of Farming…
$500,000 $25,000

28. How we’re different
Small & Cheap
vs
Large & Expensive?
Markets that others can’t reach

29. Secondary Markets
Municipalities Golf Courses
Parks & Recreation Household

30. Reduction in herbicide usage
(spraying from the drone)
Less Diesel Fuel Used Reduction in Carbon
93%
Sustainable Outcomes:
Reducing the Ecological footprint
1.3g/acre 29lb/acre

31. Our Partners…….

32. Protein Industries Canada Project
exceedgrainmarketing.com : Derek Squire – President
suregrowth.ca : Terry Aberhart – CEO
gifs.ca: Chris Barker - Director

33. Our Competition…….

34. Precision AI’s Product 1 Competitors
(AI Subscribed Ground Sprayers)
John Deere / Blue River – North America
Xarvio / Bosch – North America
WeedIT – The Netherlands/North America
Trimble Weedseeker – North America
EcoRobotics – North America
Green-eye – Israel
Bilberry – France
Precision AI’s Product 2 Competitors
(Spraying from the Drone)
Rantizo – North America
XAG – North America

35. The Near Future…….

36. Product Roadmap
MVP
2020
AI
Subscribed
Ground
Sprayer
2021
High
Clearance
Sprayer
Retrofits
2022
Precision Drone
Spraying
2023
Spray-as-a-Service
2024

37. • Deploy a swarm of autonomous low-cost drones that can both survey and
spray for 95% efficiency at a fraction of the cost.

38. Spray-as-a-Service
• Paradigm-shifting approach that completely changes the approach to crop protection
and creates new economic models

39. ▪ Precision AI is retrofitting drones and ground sprayers with AI and computer vision to spray
only the weeds and nothing else.
▪ We will achieve up to 93% reduction in chemical input costs, saving a farmer $36 per acre
on herbicide costs each year.
▪ Our patent-pending approach is an entire order of magnitude less expensive than
competing approaches.
▪ Competing solutions require investments of $150,000 USD - $650,000 USD in new specialized
equipment; Difficult to justify payback for farming operations smaller than 10,000 acres.
▪ The savings on chemical costs can be parlayed into a “Spray as a Service” model, where a
farmer can outsource their crop protection for less than the cost of chemical they’re using
today.
In Summary

40. Thank You ☺