Heliospectra

Heliospectra, a leader in intelligent lighting technology for greenhouse and controlled plant growth environments, is proud to announce the new 1500W MITRA X LED light. With a higher output of 5700µmol, wide beam optics, and 3.7 efficacy, the new MITRA X requires only 2 LED lights to cover a standard 8m trellis, decreasing investment costs while providing vegetable growers with a high output and uniformity to maximize taste and yield. The extended MITRA X platform focuses on modularity and versatility and caters to a wide range of environments and crops to meet the diverse needs of modern growers.

First launched in 2022, the MITRA X platform was primarily designed for unistruts and a diverse ornamentals segments as well as leafy greens. Now fully modular, it offers growers unparalleled flexibility to adapt to various cultivation environments and crop requirements. From small-scale indoor facilities and growth chambers to large-scale commercial operations, the MITRA X platform delivers tailored lighting solutions for optimal plant growth and yield.

New 1500W fixture for vegetable growers and high-light crops

The new 1500W LED light not only comes with the standard 90-5-5 spectrum preferred by vegetable growers, a higher output of 5700µmol, and up to 3.7 efficacy, but a lot of thought has gone into the fixture's design for easy and efficient installation on a trellis in a standard Venlo greenhouse. Thanks to the modular design and special optics of the MITRA X, only 2 LED lights are required to cover a standard 8m trellis, decreasing investment costs while providing vegetable growers with high output and uniformity for taste and yield.

"At Heliospectra, we are committed to empowering growers with innovative lighting solutions that enable sustainable and profitable cultivation," said Bonny Heeren, CEO at Heliospectra. "Our new fixture is perfect for vegetable growers. With only 2 LED lights per 8m trellis, while delivering high uniformity of more than 90% and output of around 275 mmol per m2, our customers can save up to 20% on their initial investment and even more on installation costs. The A-brand LEDs used in the MITRA X with a lifetime above 100,000 hours at a 45-degree ambient temperature say a lot about the high-quality components we are using, but it also means that, on average, more light will reach the crop due to less degradation of the output of the LEDs in our fixtures. In today’s highly competitive climate, all these advantages are making the difference."

Seamless Integration

The MITRA X offers a wide range of wattage, voltage, hangers, and standard Wieland connectors, as well as wireless dimming and control, to ensure easy and effortless integration into your greenhouse and minimize upfront installation costs. While a stand-alone system, the MITRA X and helioCORE™ can easily integrate into third-party control systems, such as already installed climate computers, enhancing operational flexibility and customization.

Durable and Built to Last

Built on the legacy of Swedish design and craftsmanship, the MITRA X is designed with a combination of leading components from trusted A-brands like Inventronics, Osram, CREE, and Ledil. To further guarantee quality and safety, Heliospectra fixtures undergo thorough end-of-line and third-party testing, meeting the most demanding certifications, including CE, eTL, and DLC. This combination ensures longevity and performance for our customers and enables us to reach a market-leading lifetime expectancy and Q90 on our spectrum of 102,000h at 45-degree ambient temperature.

Worry Free Growing with Proactive Monitoring & Safeguarding

Growers can stay informed and proactive with real-time notifications and comprehensive monitoring of fixtures, power supply units (PSU), and installation status. Thanks to our advanced software and unique two-way communication with the PSU, the system detects and prevents potential PSU failures and overheating and ensures uninterrupted growth and operational continuity. Safeguarding your investment and grow operation.

Dynamic Steering and Control

The MITRA X platform also offers a suite of dynamic features based on durable LoRa technology to enhance energy savings, increase yield, and streamline operational efficiency. These include:

• DLI Management System: This system allows you to standardize your crop's daily light levels and utilize light precisely when needed, thereby reducing energy consumption by up to 35% with real-time weather forecasts, integrated energy prices, sensors, and LED optimization.
• Dynamic Grow Zones: Customize your light environments with unlimited dynamic growth zones. You can create and reshape zones as your operation requires, down to the fixture, and control them through wireless dimming, sensors, and advanced scheduling features. Enabling you to adapt to changing requirements effortlessly.
• Flexible spectrum alternatives. MITRA X Flex allows growers to fine-tune lighting parameters further to maximize crop quality and productivity by ensuring precise light output tailored to each stage of plant development or light treatments.
• Wireless Sensor Integration: Flexible wireless PAR and ePAR sensors enhance data collection and reduce installation costs, providing real-time insights for dynamic steering and informed decision-making.

”This combination of Swedish craftsmanship, use of only A-brand components, and unique dynamic solutions provides growers with market-leading quality and control against a very competitive cost per mmol!” according to Bonny Heeren.

Heliospectra AB (publ) (First North Growth Market: HELIO), a world leader in intelligent lighting technology for greenhouse and controlled plant growth environments, announces a new order from a leading greenhouse grower in Ontario, Canada. The new order includes Heliospectra´s fully modular MITRA X LED light and helioCORE™ system solution and is spread out over 4 deliveries in 2024 and 2025. The total order value is 8,3 million SEK.

The grower, located in Ontario, Canada, is a leading greenhouse propagator. Heliospectra's cutting-edge technologies are set to improve the customer’s cultivation practices further, driving sustainability, efficiency, and yield optimization.

Heliospectra's MITRA X LED lights and control solutions will be integrated into the customer's new state-of-the-art greenhouse, supplied by Havecon Horticultural Projects and their Hoogendoorn climate control system. The MITRA X platform ensures reliability, efficiency, and longevity using cutting-edge A-band components from industry leaders such as OSRAM, CREE, and Inventronics. With wattage options ranging from 325 to 1500 watts, this modular system empowers growers to tailor light distribution and quality to meet specific plant requirements, optimizing growth and development.

Heliospectra's helioCORE™ system, with our DLI Management System, provides growers with a tool to enjoy savings of up to 35% beyond the energy efficiency gains achieved by transitioning from HPS to LED lighting, thereby making growers eligible for additional rebates.

Furthermore, our system offers growers exclusive advantages, including dynamic grow zones. This feature empowers growers to establish and adjust grow zones wirelessly, even down to a single fixture, allowing for flexibility and control. Additionally, two-way communication with our PSU, enabling our advanced software to receive crucial data such as fixture and environmental temperatures, operating hours, and grid harmonic pollution. Leveraging this wealth of data, our software provides precise monitoring capabilities and notifications, enabling our growers to track the performance of their lighting installation and return on investment accurately.

"We’re proud to provide top-tier LED lighting solutions that not only enhance efficiency and sustainability but also unlock valuable rebates for our clients," stated Bonny Heeren, CEO of Heliospectra. "By integrating our MITRA X LED lights and helioCORE™ system, the customer will not only achieve substantial energy savings, control, and precision in their cultivation processes, but they will know they have a reliable and safe installation."

Delivery 1 and 2 are expected to occur during Q3 and Q4 2024 and amount to approximately half of the order value. The remaining deliveries will take place in 2025.

We're thrilled to announce the launch of helioACADEMY! With our strong foundation in research, we are proud to present helioACADEMY – a platform designed to collaborate with students, extending our smart LED lights to empower aspiring researchers.

Founded in 2006 in Sweden by plant scientists and biologists, Heliospectra embarked on a visionary journey – to revolutionize crop production through intelligence and resource efficiency.

With our roots deeply embedded in research, the natural progression for us has been to nurture and contribute to research by our technology. Thus, helioACADEMY was born, providing a platform for us to support and collaborate with researchers. Our vision with helioACADEMY is that resources like grow lights should not be a limitation for young aspiring researchers. Instead, we want it to be something that everyone has the opportunity to use in their research, big as well as small. Through helioACADEMY, we extend our smart LED lights to students, empowering them to conduct innovative experiments and trials.

Numerous students have already benefited from helioACADEMY sponsorships, and we eagerly anticipate sharing the insights and discoveries resulting from these collaborations. Stay tuned by visiting our website and following our social media channels to explore the diverse array of research projects and their outcomes supported by helioACADEMY.

Are you a university or student conducting a research project in 2024 and interested in being sponsored by helioACADEMY?

Heliospectra’s MITRA is the horticulture market’s first truly modular LED light. Designed by Growers for Growers, MITRA is the perfect solution for high light crops, boasting in high-intensity light output and electrical efficacy of up to 2.8 µmol/J. 

G&M Family Farm Ltd. is dedicated to producing sustainable and unique agricultural products to the province of NL. Their mission is to provide their customers with the highest quality product possible. G & M Family Farm is owned and operated by the Smith family on property that has been farmed for upwards of 80 years. The Farm is managed based on sound principles of conserving natural resources, growing, hiring and eating locally-grown and chemical-free foods; as well as providing unique products. Heliospectra looks forward to being the lighting supplier partner for G&M farms as they enter the cannabis market in Newfoundland.

The order will be delivered during the second and third quarters of this year.

We're excited to announce the launch of helioCORE 2.0! Our helioCORE 2.0 software revolutionizes the way growers interact with light, offering a comprehensive suite of features designed to enhance energy savings, optimize plant growth, and streamline operational efficiency. Growers also have access to Heliospectra’s helioCARE team of in-house experts for technical support and seamless installations, providing you with comprehensive assistance for a worry-free experience. Take the guess work out of advanced lighting and connect your Heliospectra lights to helioCORE 2.0. Our integrated light control system will give you consistent, high-quality crop production all year-round.

Heliospectra, a market leader in Smart LED lighting technology and control systems for optimized plant growth and energy efficiency, proudly introduces the highly anticipated helioCORE 2.0. New features include the implementation of weather forecasting in the DLI controller, a new graphical interface of the installation with a drag-and-drop feature for creating zones, and an improved data overview of the environment. This innovative update to the helioCORE software reaffirms Heliospectra's commitment to delivering cutting-edge yet user-friendly solutions that elevate plant cultivation and energy savings to new heights.

Heliospectra's new helioCORE 2.0 software revolutionizes the way growers interact with light, offering a comprehensive suite of features designed to enhance energy savings, optimize plant growth, and streamline operational efficiency. The new release builds on Heliospectra's legacy of innovation and excellence, leveraging state-of-the-art technology to offer growers unprecedented control over their lighting strategies and resources.

The updated software boasts an array of new and improved features, including:

1. Enhanced User Experience: helioCORE 2.0 presents an improved user interface that is more intuitive and user-friendly than ever before. With easy drag-and-drop functionality, group and grow zone administration become seamless. The graphical representation of the installation provides growers with clear insights into fixture status, temperature, wireless signal strength, and more.

2. Dynamic External Weather Forecast Integration: A standout feature of helioCORE 2.0 is the integration of external weather forecasts into the Daily Light Integral (DLI) controller. This innovation significantly increases the algorithm's accuracy, making helioCORE eligible for rebates in select states across Canada and the USA. This integration exemplifies Heliospectra's commitment to sustainability and economic viability.

3. Improved Monitoring and Notifications: The Adelphi and the new graphical representation of the installation provide growers with clear insights into fixture status, temperature, wireless signal strength, and more, providing customers with even better real-time status updates. More options for email notifications ensure that users are informed promptly and comprehensively about critical events in their cultivation environment.

4. Multi-Group Grow Zone Control: With support for multiple groups within Grow Zones, growers can now easily turn off empty bays or even individual lights within a grow zone. Zone strategies allow growers to tailor lighting strategies to different crops or varieties simultaneously within one or multiple greenhouses. This enables optimized growth environments, ensuring that each plant receives the precise amount of light required for optimal growth.

5. Open API for 3rd party integration: helioCORE 2.0 has an open API, enabling integration and control of helioCORE from external sources. This integration empowers growers to seamlessly integrate helioCORE with already installed climate computers, enhancing operational flexibility and customization.

Part of the enhanced alarm capabilities in helioCORE 2.0 is the ability to track the PSU status, offering proactive monitoring for optimal lighting performance. Tracking the PSU status and vital parameters helps growers spot issues early, ensuring uninterrupted growth. It monitors PSU output, runtime, and temperature for efficiency and safety. Advanced algorithms detect potential PSU failures to prevent downtime and costly replacements. Plus, it allows over-the-air adjustments for maximum efficiency. This advanced monitoring elevates lighting installations, ensuring longevity, reliability, and energy savings, ultimately cutting operational expenses.

The helioCORE 2.0 software embodies Heliospectra's commitment to driving innovation and delivering solutions that maximize energy savings, optimize plant growth, and provide unmatched control. By enabling growers to create customized lighting strategies based on real-time data and external forecasts, helioCORE 2.0 transforms cultivation practices and sets new standards in precision horticulture.

"Heliospectra is proud to introduce helioCORE 2.0, a testament to our dedication to pushing the boundaries of smart LED lighting technology. This version of our updated software empowers growers, allowing them to make data-driven decisions to optimize the quality of the crop and, at the same time, improve the efficiency of their cultivation practices, decreasing energy consumption by up to 35%, on top of the savings already brought by switching to LED," said Johan Rubenson, CTO at Heliospectra.

helioCORE is a stand-alone system, but thanks to an open API, it can be used stand-alone or combined with already installed climate computers, for additional flexibility and control. Automatic updates ensure the system is always updated with the latest features and improvements. Moreover, growers have access to Heliospectra's helioCARE team of in-house experts for technical support and seamless installations, providing you with comprehensive assistance for a worry-free experience.

helioCORE 2.0 will be fully released in Q4 2023.

Discover the future of precision cultivation with helioCORE 2.0. For more information and to experience the power of enhanced light control, visit www.heliospectra.com. To book a demo or to learn more about how to better utilize potential rebates, contact our sales team at sales@heliospectra.com.

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MITRA X is our next generation in LED Grow Lights with industry leading wireless controls, broad spectrums and efficient operation. The product is specifically developed for greenhouse cultivation of different cultivars, growth stages and light treatments.

Up to 3.6 μmol/J
Maximize your production consistently, harvest after harvest, while saving electricity, with consistently high-quality LED light output and a fixture efficacy of up to 3.6 μmol/J

5 Targeted Spectra
Ensure healthy, high-quality production year-round with 5 spectral variants specifically developed for greenhouse cultivation on various crops.

Wireless Dimming
Or ADELPHI wireless connector offers a robust and stable protocol for wireless dimming and control with the helioCORE light control software.

Minimal Shading
Ensure healthy, high-quality production year-round with 5 spectral variants specifically developed for greenhouse cultivation on various crops.

IP 66 Rating
MITRA X is built to withstand the harsh environment of a greenhouse. With an IP66 rating, it is completely protected against dust and resistant to strong jets of water for ease of use and cleaning.

Versatile
MITRA X can be configured in classic linear and linear split configuration and 2 different mounting options

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