Case Study: Nature Fresh Farms achieves real-time greenhouse insights and lower latency with VMware SD-WAN

A Growing Business Nature Fresh Farms and VMware SD-Access

Nature Fresh Farms, a family-owned leader in greenhouse-grown produce, uses extensive sensor arrays and AI to optimize plant growth across hundreds of acres. The company faced the challenge of reliably moving and processing massive volumes of edge data from widely distributed, often rural sites while reducing latency for AI-driven grading and 5G-enabled robotics and providing secure, real-time access for growers.

To solve this, Nature Fresh deployed VMware SD-WAN, VMware SD-Access and VMware Edge Network Intelligence across its greenhouses, 5G scouting robots and mobile education centers. The result was faster, lower-latency data flows without extra VPN or hardware appliances, quicker site provisioning, proactive detection of IoT latency issues, near-real-time access for growers, and more consistent, higher-quality produce.

Nature Fresh Farms

Keith Bradley

Vice President of IT and Security