Vacant points skipped automatically
Dead, missing, or replanted positions get no dose. That fertilizer stays in the hopper for the next active tree.
Oil palm · Fertilizing-as-a-Service
Your tractor. Your driver. Better work.
SmartSpread turns the palm tractor you already own into a per-tree fertilizer system. Your driver keeps driving; vision and AI handle the dosing. Built and field-tested over a two-year closed beta, now open to everyone as Fertilizing-as-a-Service.
Key specs
What gets installed, what gets recorded.
- Per-tree
- Vision-guided dosing
- Your tractor
- Retrofit, not replacement
- Every pass
- Coverage + dosing log
- Driver-in-cab
- Real-time dashboard
Vacant points skipped automatically
Mounts on standard plantation tractors
RSPO and EUDR exports built in
Row, dose, and pace alerts
The fertilizer reality check
See exactly where a conventional spreader sends your fertilizer.
Conventional broadcast equipment cannot place fertilizer only on the palms you ordered it for, so it forces a trade-off between feeding every palm, covering the whole area, and over-ordering. See the three outcomes, and how per-palm dosing removes the trade-off.
Every pass, on every tractor
What changes operationally.
Per-tree dosing precision
Every active palm gets the rate intended for it, not whatever came out of the spreader as the driver passed.
Coverage you can verify
Every row and block recorded as it happens. The end-of-day map shows what got covered and what didn't.
Anomalies surface the same day
Passes that run short, doses that don't reconcile with the bag count, ground the tractor never reached: flagged in your dashboard before the day ends.
Records ready for any audit
Per-tree logs and coverage maps export in the formats RSPO, EUDR, and your buyers' programmes expect, with no season-end scramble.
Palm census built in
Every pass updates count, position, height, and health signals for every palm: a working ground truth for your agronomy team.
Built around your driver
The people who already know your estate, doing better work.
SmartSpread equips your drivers rather than replacing them. Dosing moves to a system that sees every tree as the tractor passes; the driver focuses on driving the route well.
A dashboard they like
In-cab confirmation that each row was covered, each tree dosed, the day on plan.
Real-time alerts
Off-line, off-pace, or skipping a row: flagged before it becomes a problem nobody catches until much later.
More work, same crew
More accurate work at higher speed, so shrinking application windows still get completed.
How it fits your operation
The driver stays. The iron stays. The order stays.
SmartSpread mounts to the tractors your team already operates, runs with the drivers who already know your estate, and changes nothing about the fertilizer order you place. Pilot units run in months, not years.
“We sent 50 bags out, what came back?” stops being an end-of-month reconciliation question. It is visible on the day, on a map, in your dashboard.
Why EarthSense specifically
Per-tree precision, not GPS block-rate.
We see the trees, not just the rows
The system identifies each palm in real time and decides what to apply. Block-level variable-rate from GPS can’t handle vacant spots, irregular spacing, or the actual trees in front of the tractor.
SmartSpread today, autonomy tomorrow
When your estate is ready for full autonomy, you move to TerraMax on the same Terra AI and the same data foundation, not to a new vendor.
Technical specifications
Everything you’d ask in a first call.
The specs operators care about, on the page. Compatible tractor list, install cost band, and service commitments are in the brochure.
- Mounting
- Retrofit kit· Bolt-on, no permanent modifications to the tractor
- Compatible tractors
- Standard plantation tractors· Full compatibility list in brochure
- Install time
- Pilot in 60 days· Site visit, configuration, supervised first passes
- Power
- Runs off the tractor's 12V system· No additional bulky batteries needed
- Perception
- Per-tree, real-time· Palm identification, vacant-point detection, canopy state
- Dosing
- Decided tree by tree
- Crop coverage
- Oil palm, standard plantation tractors
- In-cab display
- Real-time dashboard· Row, dose, pace, and anomaly alerts
- Operator training
- Half-day· Your existing drivers, not new staff
- Languages
- English, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, Hindi, Tamil
- Application logs
- Per-tree, per-pass
- Sustainability exports
- RSPO, EUDR, sustainability-linked finance
- Palm census
- Updated every pass· Tree count, position, height, health signals
- Connectivity
- Offline-first, cellular sync
- Service model
- Pay-per-hectare, per-year· Capital purchase option in brochure
SmartSpread is a retrofit. Exact compatible-tractor list, mounting hardware spec, and install procedure are in the brochure.