Located on the University of British Columbia (UBC)’s Vancouver campus, the UBC Smart Farm offers a unique living lab for smart agriculture innovation. Their certified organic research facility provides 5 hectares of ideal testing space for agricultural tech solutions.

As part of UBC’s Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, the Smart Agriculture Living Lab combines academic research with practical growing operations, providing a valuable opportunity for your organization to collect detailed data and validate your agricultural technology in real-world environments.

The Smart Agriculture Living Lab supports numerous agriculture innovations, from ground-based robotics to aerial monitoring systems. Startups can validate autonomous solutions for planting, weed management, pest detection, and harvesting across multiple crops, while testing precision cultivation and organic treatment applications in real field conditions.

The Smart Agriculture Living Lab facility also enables comprehensive drone technology validation, including crop health monitoring, disease detection, precision irrigation systems, yield prediction, and infrastructure assessment capabilities.

With integrated data collection opportunities spanning soil sensors, weather monitoring, and farm management software platforms, the Smart Agriculture Living Lab provides the perfect environment to develop and refine multi-platform agricultural systems that combine robotics, aerial surveillance, and data analytics into cohesive agtech solutions.

*All project submissions are welcome. Please let us know how your company can leverage the Living Lab.