Digital Ag Innovation Lab

The team in the Digital Ag Innovation Lab is invested in developing industry partnerships designed to reach ag producers with innovations.

The lab specializes in developing technology and products to make agriculture more productive, efficient, and profitable, including:

Smart sensors and controls
Precision agriculture
Machinery electronics and CAN bus technology
Biomass logistics

In 2024, the Alliant Energy Agriculture Innovation Lab will open in the ISU Research Park, providing more than 85,000 square feet for ISU’s College of Agriculture and Life Science’s Digital Ag Innovation Team and agriculture-based business tenants to access technology, research, and development.

It will pair collaborative office and agricultural workshop space to create a unique work environment in Central Iowa.

Digital Ag Innovation Lab

Patents Held By ISU Digital Ag

U.S. Patent No. 10477775 - Baler mass flow sensing assembly and method
U.S. Patent No. 10436913 - Baler information system and method
U.S. Patent No. 10334788 - Baler with mass flow sensing assembly and method of initiating stuffer trip
U.S. Patent No. 10371561 - Yield measurement and base cutter height control systems for a harvester
U.S. Patent No. 10188037 - Yield estimation
U.S. Patent No. 10091943 - Round module weighing using differential pressure sensing
U.S. Patent No. 9826683 - Grain mass flow rate determination
U.S. Patent No. 9702753 - Grain mass flow estimation
U.S. Patent No. 9645006 - Calibration of grain mass measurement
U.S. Patent No. 9578808 - Multi-sensor crop yield determination
U.S. Patent No. 9392746 - Artificial intelligence for detecting and filling void areas of agricultural commodity containers