Semios

Semios (SemiosBio Technologies Inc.) was founded in 2010 in Vancouver, Canada, to give growers of tree fruit, nut and vine crops real-time visibility into pest pressure, disease risk, frost and irrigation needs across sprawling orchard and vineyard blocks that were previously scouted only by hand.

The company sells an in-orchard IoT platform combining climate stations, remote-controlled pheromone mating-disruption dispensers, insect camera traps, soil-moisture and leaf-wetness sensors, all feeding machine-learning models that forecast pest generations and irrigation demand. The network now spans more than 200,000 connected devices and 1.4 million acres of mating-disruption coverage for growers across Canada, the United States and the European Union.

1. Climate stations: Continuous monitoring of temperature, humidity and frost risk.

2. Mating disruption: Remote-controlled pheromone dispensers reducing insecticide use.

3. Pest camera traps: Automated insect counting and identification.

4. Soil and leaf sensors: Moisture and wetness data guiding irrigation timing.

5. Predictive models: Pest-generation and disease-risk forecasts from field data.

6. Grower dashboard: Centralized alerts and reporting across every orchard block.