Nordetect has launched the Nordetect Analytics Platform, a standalone cloud-based analytics software for greenhouse and vertical farm operations, built around what its co-founder says is a persistent industry workflow challenge: nutrient data locked in PDF lab reports and managed manually in spreadsheets. "Our platform scans these lab reports automatically, creates trends, compares results against grower-defined nutrient targets, and flags deviations early," says Keenan Pinto, Co-Founder and CEO of the Rochester, NY-based agricultural technology company.
The platform centralizes historical laboratory reports alongside third-party pH and EC measurements in a cloud-based interface designed to support long-term nutrient monitoring workflows. The software operates independently of Nordetect's hardware and is available to any grower via a tiered pricing structure, including a free option, on the company's website. "For smaller growers who do only a limited number of tests, it's free forever."
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From custom reporting to pattern recognition
Beyond trend tracking, the platform supports custom reporting, team-wide data sharing, and Excel export. Growers can compare nutrient performance across rooms and crop varieties, and use built-in comparison tools to identify conditions that correlate with peak performance, including decisions around fertigation timing. The system allows teams to share and compare nutrient data across production zones and crop cycles, helping growers and advisors work from a shared dataset.
© Nordetect The system also accepts pH and EC measurements from third-party sources. While direct integrations with other platforms are not yet live, data exported from external systems can be imported manually. The current version manages nutrient data from water, sap, and leaf testing and can incorporate historical lab reports to support longer-term nutrient trend analysis. "We're working on getting bacterial and fungal lab data in there, too," Pinto says.
The platform can operate independently of Nordetect analyzers, but also supports automatic synchronization with the company's hardware for users already working within the Nordetect ecosystem. It is designed around laboratory reporting workflows rather than production system types. According to Pinto, it does not differentiate between greenhouse and vertical farm operations, as its analysis depends on the lab report PDFs being uploaded.
Pictured right: Keenan Pinto
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Expansion into international markets
Nordetect's hardware product has historically been focused on the US and Canadian markets. The launch of a hardware-independent software platform expands that geographic reach. "We're targeting markets that perform extensive lab testing. In this case, the Netherlands is a very interesting market for us." The platform is particularly suited to operations that already send samples to external labs regularly.
The company plans to expand the platform's capabilities around water quality management as part of its 2026 development roadmap. For Pinto, the objective is straightforward: "By giving growers the insights they need, not just the numbers, we're helping them optimize every input from fertilizer to fertigation timing."
For more information:
Nordetect
Keenan Pinto, Co-Founder and CEO
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www.nordetect.com
