{"id":151256,"date":"2022-11-27T15:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T21:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/can-an-ai-powered-insect-trap-solve-a-220-billion-pest-problem"},"modified":"2022-11-27T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T21:23:19","slug":"can-an-ai-powered-insect-trap-solve-a-220-billion-pest-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/can-an-ai-powered-insect-trap-solve-a-220-billion-pest-problem","title":{"rendered":"Can an AI-powered insect trap solve a $220 billion pest problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-an-ai-powered-insect-trap-solve-a-220-billion-pest-problem.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pests destroy up to 40% of the world\u2019s crops each year, causing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/news\/story\/en\/item\/1402920\/icode\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">$220 billion<\/a> in economic losses, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Trapview is harnessing the power of AI to help tackle the problem.<\/p>\n<p>The Slovenian company has developed a device that traps and identifies pests, and acts as an advance warning system by predicting how they will spread.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve built the biggest database of pictures of insects in the world, which allows us to really use modern AI-based computing vision in the most optimal way,\u201d says Matej \u0160tefan\u010di\u010d, CEO of Trapview and parent company EFOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pests destroy up to 40% of the world\u2019s crops each year, causing $220 billion in economic losses, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Trapview is harnessing the power of AI to help tackle the problem. The Slovenian company has developed a device that traps and identifies pests, and acts as an advance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}