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
Regular tractors. Human drivers. Better work.
SmartSpread turns an ordinary palm tractor into a per-tree fertilizer system. Your driver stays in the cab, and vision and AI handle the dose. We engineered and field-tested it over a two-year closed beta, and it is now open to everyone as Fertilizing-as-a-Service. You pay per hectare per year for the work, done to a standard you can see.
Key specs
What gets installed, what gets recorded.
- Per-tree
- Vision-guided dosing
- Retrofit
- An upgrade to your tractor
- 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. It forces a trade-off between feeding every palm, covering the whole area, and over-ordering. See the three outcomes, and see 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 dose intended for it, instead of whatever came out of the spreader as the driver passed.
Coverage you can verify
We record every row and block as it happens. The end-of-day map shows what was covered and what was not.
You see problems the same day
Your dashboard shows you three things before the day ends: passes that stopped short, doses that do not match the bag count, and ground the tractor never reached.
Records ready for any audit
Per-tree logs and coverage maps export in the formats RSPO, EUDR, and your buyers’ programs expect. There is nothing to rebuild at the end of the season.
Palm census built in
Every pass updates the count, position, height, and health signals for every palm. Your agronomy team gets a record it can trust.
Designed around the driver
A person in the cab, doing better work.
SmartSpread equips the driver rather than replacing them. The dose moves to a system that sees every tree as the tractor passes, so the driver can focus on driving the route well. Under Fertilizing-as-a-Service we supply trained drivers, so your estate does not have to staff or schedule the work.
A dashboard they trust
In-cab confirmation that each row was covered, each tree dosed, the day on plan.
Real-time alerts
The system warns the driver when the tractor drifts off center, runs off pace, or skips a row, long before anyone would notice it later.
More work, no new hires
More accurate work at higher speed, so you still finish inside shorter application windows without adding people to your payroll.
How it fits your operation
The routine stays. The machines stay. The order stays.
SmartSpread mounts to the kind of plantation tractors your estate already knows, runs with drivers trained on the system, and changes nothing about the fertilizer order you place. Installation takes about a week. We ship the first tractor-integrated units in early 2027, and SmartSpread runs today on the TerraMax platform.
You no longer wait until the end of the month to ask where 50 bags of fertilizer went. You see it on the day, on a map, in your dashboard.
Why EarthSense specifically
Per-tree precision, not GPS based variable rate.
The system sees each palm, one at a time
The system identifies each palm in real time and decides what to apply. GPS based variable rate works at block level, so it cannot handle vacant points, 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 records. You do not change vendor.
Technical specifications
SmartSpread specifications, in full.
The specifications growers ask about most, on the page. The 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
- About 1 week· Site visit, configuration, supervised first passes
- Availability
- Tractor-integrated units from early 2027· Pilots being scoped now; SmartSpread runs today on the TerraMax platform
- 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
- Drivers
- We supply trained drivers· Half a day is enough to certify an experienced tractor driver on the system
- 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
- Fertilizing-as-a-Service, per hectare per year· Equipment purchase is also possible; contact us for purchase options
SmartSpread is a retrofit. Exact compatible-tractor list, mounting hardware spec, and install procedure are in the brochure.
Would you rather own the equipment?
Fertilizing-as-a-Service is how most estates start: we carry the hardware, the software, and the risk, and you pay per hectare per year. If your operation would rather buy SmartSpread outright and run it in-house, that is available too.
Contact us for purchase options