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Software-Coordinated Farm Operations

Consistent Crop & Tray Flow Across Indoor Farms

SESTO Robotics deployed MagFleet to coordinate daily operations within an urban farming environment, using Magnus Shelf AMRs as execution units.

MagFleet acted as the central coordination layer, creating, sequencing, and dispatching tasks across growing zones, vertical racks, harvesting areas, processing stations, and buffer zones. 

Challenges:
  • Tray movement, harvesting runs, and replenishment tasks relied heavily on manual labour, making operations difficult to scale.
  • Manual coordination led to inconsistent execution of harvest and transfer tasks, affecting daily output.
  • Farm supervisors lacked a consolidated view of task status, priorities, and workload distribution across growing areas.
Solution:
  • Tasks such as tray transport, harvest collection, and inter-zone transfers were generated, and dispatched automatically.
  • MagFleet managed task order, zone access, and routing logic to support smooth movement across growing and processing areas.
  • Magnus Shelf units transported trays and crop loads with stable navigation behaviour, while MagFleet handled task logic and flow.
  • Routes and workflows were updated in MagFleet to reflect crop cycles, layout changes, and evolving farm processes.

All activity was monitored centrally, giving farm teams clear visibility into what was queued, in progress, and completed.

Outcome:

 

  • Crop and tray handling followed repeatable, software-defined patterns across all shifts.
  • MagFleet replaced ad-hoc task assignment with structured, system-driven execution.
  • Farm managers gained clearer insight into task status, workload distribution, and potential bottlenecks.