About the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label
The Solar Impulse Foundation, founded by environmental pioneer Bertrand Piccard, is dedicated to addressing sustainability challenges while enabling economic growth. Bertrand dedicates his life to demonstrating the opportunities lying in sustainable development and to raising interest in profitable solutions to protect the environment. The Foundation has identified over 1000 clean and profitable solutions, organizing them into the Solutions Explorer—a search engine designed to accelerate climate action by helping political and economic decision-makers adopt ambitious energy and environmental policies.
The Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label is awarded to products, services, and processes that combine environmental and economic performance, outperforming conventional alternatives. Solutions must pass a rigorous evaluation by three independent experts, meeting stringent criteria that ensure both sustainability and economic viability. This process makes the label an internationally recognized mark of quality and innovation.
Why ARA?
The ARA Ultra-High Precision Sprayer was recognized for its transformative impact on sustainable farming and met the stringent criteria set by the Solar Impulse Foundation, demonstrating significant environmental and economic benefits.
Environmental Benefits:
- Our product allows farmers to use up to 90% less chemical products such as fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides.
- Our product is extremely precise, it is able to detect and spray a plant within square of 6x6cm, leaving a plant outside of this surface untouched.
- ARA works at a speed of 7km/h, treating 4 hectares per hour day or night even in windy conditions with no drift.
- By significantly reducing chemical spraying, and therefore the drift cause by wind, soil and neighboring ecosystems are preserved and allow fields for higher regeneration rates. Increase in crop yields has however not been quantified precisely yet.
Financial Benefits:
- Due to drastic cost cuts for treatment products our solution already is profitable after a few years of use.
- Our solution leads to improved yields and crop quality therefore increasing their potential value once on market, consequently bringing more revenue to the customer.
For more information about the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label and see Ecorobotix on the company website please visit the Solar Impulse website.