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Size sampling in seconds

Fruitlet sizing app helps apple growers with crop estimation

Greenvic and Copefrut first Chilean companies to get Hectre

Major New Zealand citrus grower signs on for Spectre First Fresh NZ, a major citrus supplier to the domestic market in New Zealand, has taken the global lead as the first citrus enterprise to sign on to Spectre, the computer vision fruit sizing tool developed by New Zealand start-up, Hectre. "Spectre uses computer vision, machine learning and AI technology to detect fruit size, all from the simple click of an iPad or iPhone. Sample sizes captured by Spectre are 100 times those obtained in traditional sizing practices and accuracy levels are extremely high. Results are served up within seconds...

By the time she was sentenced in November $40,000 was repaid. Brown pleaded guilty to 14 charges of dishonestly accessing a computer system and was sentenced to two years and one month in jail. As well as the $62,976.61 to be repaid from the theft, the judge ordered another $7000 emotional harm payment to the victim. Brown had promised to pay more, but it did not eventuate until the appeal hearing on December 15 when whānau came up with another $20,000. David White/Stuff A judge overturned Katrina Louise Brown’s jail term, replacing it with home detention and reparation. (File photo) ...