Hectre

Spectre, leading-edge computer vision AI for fruit sizing and colour grading

Hectre delivers transformative technologies to the global fruit industry which span the supply chain, from grower to packer. Hectre’s post-harvest fruit quality solution, Spectre, uses leading-edge computer vision AI to bring fruit size and colour data to growers and packers earlier than ever before, as soon as the fruit is picked.Spectre Hand-Held detects and sizes more than 100 pieces of fruit in the bin from just a single photo taken on your phone. There is no touch on the fruit and results are available in seconds and can be shared. The popular mobile app can be used anywhere – in the field, in the coolstore and in the packhouse. It’s just like having a grader in your pocket. Growers and packers use Spectre Hand-Held to gain early fruit data to support the pick, pack planning and sales. Customers include Washington Fruit & Produce, Sandher Fruit Packers, Consolidated Fruit Packers, River Valley Fruit and Tom Rasch & Sons.Hectre’s premium product, Spectre Top Down, combines Hectre’s AI solution with a simple custom overhead camera. Up to 5,000 pieces of fruit are detected and sized straight off the top of trucks arriving at packhouse receiving sites. Gaining such huge volumes of reliable size and colour data, has significantly enhanced the packhouse operations of many premier fruit businesses, driving down expensive packhouse downtime and enabling optimal sales. Packers using Spectre Top Down include BC Tree Fruits, Sage Fruit, Monson Fruit, FirstFruits and Lake Ontario Fruit.As triple award winners in the global AgTech Breakthrough Awards, Hectre is recognised as the global leader in early fruit sizing solutions.