Green coffee collaboration leverages AI-tech to detect defects and unlock production insights

January 9, 2023 — Switzerland-based coffee company Sucafina and Singapore-based AI-powered predictive and prescription food ingredient profiler Co-invested in developer Csmart. Green coffee grading that quickly scans a sample of green coffee beans and pinpoints the number of defects within minutes.

Founded by grower, quality control (QC) expert, and software developer Francisco Massucci Silveira, Csmart aims to improve the coffee industry for growers, professionals, and roasters. We are designing an AI-powered image recognition technology for coffee grading.

quick results
This technology reduces repetitive tasks, improves and accelerates communication between QC teams, and reduces the carbon footprint of shipping countless samples of green coffee to buyers and sellers around the world. Professionals can help.

“Ultimately, we hope that data collection and analysis at scale will reveal new and valuable information about coffee production, enabling us to embed data-driven decision-making throughout the coffee value chain. We are doing it,” says Silveira.

Csmart’s software can identify the total number of defects and check the screen size of a green coffee sample.Csmart’s software can now identify the total number of defects and check the screen size of a sample of green coffee.

Future iterations of this software will allow us to quantify each defect by type and perform image scans of each identified bean. One of the key benefits of this technology is the reduction of time and resource inefficiencies caused by sending raw samples around the world.

Csmart’s technology allows sellers to scan green beans and deliver objective reports to buyers for review. This can significantly reduce sample approval time and reduce the carbon footprint of coffee sales.

Food suitability evaluation
Image Recognition Green Grading technology complements ProfilePrint, which incorporates data from multiple sources, allowing users to quickly confirm material suitability without traditional sensory evaluation.

ProfilePrint Founder and CEO Alan Lai said:

Tim Heinze, Coffee Education Manager at The Center, an online global learning community, adds:

AI rises
The move comes amid rapid advances in AI technology across the F&B sector.

As the food industry seeks to solve the modern problems of sustainable food production, leaders, manufacturers and scientists are turning to AI as a credible solution.

AI is gaining momentum, especially in dairy. Dairy innovation trends are bifurcating to incorporate regional adaptations of consumer preferences, deeper integration of AI, and texture and functionality playing an increasingly important role in the dairy sector. .

In a related development, DSM announced the first portfolio of all-in-one cultures of fermented dairy products developed using an AI-powered platform. According to the company, this is “just the beginning of using AI to solve his F&B industry’s biggest challenges.”

Last month, industry cloud company Infor announced that Amalthea, a global provider of goat and organic cow cheese, is using Infor’s integrated AI solutions to improve cheese quality and yield, build customer loyalty, and sustain growth. We have made it clear that we are helping to increase the possibility.

Meanwhile, DiFluid, a technology company founded by Linus Peng in Shenzhen, China, has launched a system that brews coffee according to user preferences.

Edited by Elizabeth Green

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