21 June 2018
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Transporting data instead of food. That is the goal of two brothers and ICT specialists from Hoensbroek. Saïdi and Kharim Pani have been tinkering for seven years in their garage with a cultivation computer that can create the optimal growing conditions using growth recipes. VPRO Tegenlicht portrayed the brothers during an episode about green pioneers.
With Walther-Pro, the device named after water, air, light, temperature, electricity and resilience (and their favorite uncle), they want to enable anyone to grow food anywhere in the world. The device measures what the plant needs to grow optimally and converts that data into actions. According to the brothers, the washing machine-sized aluminum box could turn any room into a "high-tech growing facility."
The Pani brothers get to demonstrate their prototype at Amsterdam-based GrowX, one of the first Dutch vertical farms to grow cress and radish sprouts in enclosed spaces. The CEO of GrowX is the American John Apesos, a man who is used to big TEDX stages. VPRO Tegenlicht follows the brothers in their attempt to market their invention.