Boo Egendom is a historic Swedish estate dedicated to agriculture, forestry, and wildlife management, cultivating primarily wheat across 15,000 hectares. Every year, fallow deer cause substantial crop damage, leading to annual losses of up to 400,000 SEK and threatening farm productivity. Traditional deterrents like fencing, hunting, and feeding sites have had limited success, and previous low-tech trials failed to provide a sustainable, long-term solution.
To address this challenge, we partnered with Boo Egendom to deploy Flox Herd, our AI-powered deterrent system that detects and deters wildlife in real-time. Using species-specific deterrence signals and continuous monitoring, the system automatically intervenes when deer enter protected fields.
Effective Wildlife Deterrence: Over the trial, 2,292 animals were detected, with 87% successfully deterred, significantly reducing crop damage risk.
Adaptive Performance: The system learned and improved over time, refining deterrence signals based on wildlife behavior analysis.
Scalable Solution: The strong results pave the way for larger-scale deployments, offering a proactive, non-invasive approach to protect farmlands from wildlife impact.
Status:
completed
Period:
22/07/2023 to 30/07/2023
Animal
Detected
Deterred
Efficiency
Fallow deer
2 076
1 801
86.8%
Wild boar
242
241
99.6%
”With the demonstration of the FLOX's drone-based system we have witnessed a significant improvement in safeguarding our crops.”
Peter Aronsson
Farm Manager
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