Ridder (Hortimax Pro)
Gardin connects with Ridder's Hortimax Pro software to bring crop intelligence directly into your climate management workflow, providing a complete picture of both environmental conditions and plant response.
You can find information on the latest updates to our Ridder Hortimax Pro integration via the Changelog page.
Overview
Using Ridder's IoT platform, Gardin delivers plant indices directly to grower's Hortimax Pro climate computer software. This connection allows you to view vital plant feedback insights within the same interface growers use for climate control, removing the need to manage separate dashboards or export data between systems.
Key Features
Near Real-Time Data Delivery
Gardin indices reach your Hortimax Pro system within 15 minutes of being calculated. This rapid delivery ensures you're working with current information when making cultivation decisions.
Integrated Crop Monitoring
View all Gardin plant indices directly in Hortimax Pro including:
- Plant Health: Overall crop condition scoring
- Light Efficiency: Photosynthetic performance metrics
- Daily Photosynthetic Integral (DPI): Cumulative light absorption
- Energy Balance: Continuous indicator of plant status as source or sink limited
These metrics integrate with your climate and environmental data, making it easier to understand how growing conditions affect plant performance.
Secure Multi-Tenant Architecture
Customer data is isolated through secure partitioning. Your growing data and insights remain accessible only to authorised users within your organisation, meeting enterprise security standards.
Flexible Analysis & Reporting
With Hortimax Pro's advanced reporting and visualisation tools, you have the freedom to view and analyse Gardin indices data alongside all your other climate and crop variables in the best way for you. Use Hortimax Pro's powerful customisation features to build dashboards and create visualisations that best help you to make data-driven decisions based on a complete picture of your growing environment.
Benefits
Simplified data access: All relevant crop and climate information is available in Hortimax Pro. This eliminates the need to switch between multiple software platforms or manually consolidate reports.
Improved correlation analysis: When plant indices appear alongside climate variables, you can more easily identify relationships between environmental adjustments and crop responses.
Informed cultivation planning: Access to historical index trends supports better decision-making for lighting schedules, climate setpoints, and other growing parameters.
Consistent monitoring: Maintain the same interface and workflow across all your facilities while adding deeper crop insights.
Getting Started
Prerequisites
To enable this integration, you need:
- Ridder Hortimax Pro climate computer
- Active Gardin subscription with functioning sensors
- Network connectivity to allow Gardin indices data to be received by your climate computer
Setup Process
Step 1: Request integration Contact your Ridder account manager to initiate the setup process.
Step 2: Technical configuration Gardin and Ridder technical teams work together to:
- Configure Hortimax Pro software to receive data from Gardin automatically
- Customise data presentation based on your preferences
- Conduct testing to verify data flow and accuracy
Step 3: Activation After configuration and testing are complete, Gardin indices begin flowing automatically to Hortimax Pro. Data appears alongside your existing climate measurements and can be used immediately for analysis.
Further support
Gardin Integration Support
Email: integrationsupport@gardin.ag
For questions or issues relating to Gardin indices, sensor operations, or data accuracy
Ridder Technical Support
Contact your Ridder account manager or email: helpdesk@ridder.com
For questions or issues relating to Hortimax Pro or the configuration of your Gardin integration