Purpose
1. Automatically monitor, detect, and report quality issues, anomalies, or trends in harvested crop data (e.g., moisture, contamination, grading) to ensure prompt corrective action, reduce spoilage, maintain compliance, and support decision-making throughout the post-harvest process.
Trigger Conditions
1. Data from harvest sensors (temperature/moisture/weight) exceeds set thresholds.
2. Grading or inspection reports indicate non-compliance or substandard results.
3. Scheduled/manual quality sampling completed and uploaded.
4. Environmental conditions (storage, transit logs) reflect risk to crop quality.
5. External lab results imported into central database.
Platform Variants
1. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: “Programmable SMS” API — Configure webhook to send SMS when a quality threshold breach is detected.
2. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: “Mail Send API” — Trigger automated email alerts and summary reports to managers.
3. Slack
• Feature/Setting: “Incoming Webhooks” — Post instant alerts to crop management channels upon issue detection.
4. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: “Webhook Connector” — Configure card notifications for new quality incidents.
5. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Google Sheets API — Log incoming quality events, auto-update audit reports, trigger alerts based on cell changes.
6. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: “Platform Events” or custom objects — Auto-sync new alert records for traceability and follow-up.
7. SAP ERP
• Feature/Setting: “Quality Management (QM) Module” API — Push and retrieve quality notifications for process control.
8. AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service)
• Feature/Setting: “Publish” API — Fan out multi-channel alerts for critical quality issues.
9. Azure Logic Apps
• Feature/Setting: “Recurrence Trigger” + connectors — Poll crop quality databases and fan out alerts.
10. Pipedrive
• Feature/Setting: “Activities API” — Schedule corrective tasks linked to quality events.
11. HubSpot
• Feature/Setting: “Workflows” — Add new quality cases, auto-email responsible parties.
12. WhatsApp Business API
• Feature/Setting: “Message Send” — Inform field teams of urgent quality non-compliance.
13. Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: “Automated Cloud Flows” — Extract, react, and escalate based on sensor or inspection uploads.
14. IBM Watson IoT
• Feature/Setting: “Rule Engine” — Trigger cloud workflow for out-of-bounds IoT crop data.
15. Dropbox
• Feature/Setting: “File Event Webhooks” — Detect and act on new lab quality reports uploaded.
16. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: “Automations” — Board items auto-created for each incident, with due dates for review.
17. Asana
• Feature/Setting: “Incoming Webhooks/API” — Log and assign QA response tasks.
18. Trello
• Feature/Setting: “Butler Automation” — Card creation for every new detected issue.
19. Google Drive
• Feature/Setting: “Apps Script” — Scan uploaded reports and trigger notifications.
20. Mailgun
• Feature/Setting: “Messages API” — Format and broadcast crop quality reports directly to stakeholders.
21. Zendesk
• Feature/Setting: “Tickets API” — Open new cases for quality failures needing resolution.
22. Notion
• Feature/Setting: “Database + API” — Synchronize events, update QC dashboards for team visibility.
23. Oracle Cloud
• Feature/Setting: “Integration Cloud” — Route quality alerts through business process orchestrations.
Benefits
1. Fast response to quality threats reduces losses.
2. Centralized reporting ensures traceability and regulatory compliance.
3. Automated notifications lower the risk of human oversight.
4. Multi-channel delivery guarantees stakeholder awareness.
5. Workflow integration ensures closed-loop resolution and accountability.
6. Historical analytics drive continuous process improvement.
Crop and Yield Management