Horticulture
Tomatoes, peppers, leafy vegetables and other high-value perishables.
MulticomIoT · IoT · AI · GIS
Smart Food Resilience
& Cold Chain Network
From Farm to Market. A More Resilient Food Future.
Connecting farms, cold-chain infrastructure, logistics and markets, so less food is lost between the people who grow it and the people who need it.
Cold Chain Monitor
SIMULATED
Hub 02 · Bono · demonstration feed
Temperature
2.5°C
Humidity
68%
Door
Secure
Capacity
74%
All systems normalTelemetry within range.
Simulated feed, not a live installation
Ghana pilot · expressions of interest open
Join the Ghana Pilot
Be part of Ghana's Smart Food Resilience & Cold Chain Network demonstration programme. MulticomIoT is identifying farmers, cooperatives, aggregators, buyers, cold-chain operators, logistics providers, investors and strategic partners interested in participating in the Ghana pilot.
- Farmer / ProducerYou grow crops or raise animals.Register Your Farm
- Cooperative / AggregatorYou gather produce from many farmers.Register Your Organisation
- Buyer / Off-takerYou buy fresh produce: supermarket, processor, exporter, hotel or institution.Become a Buyer Partner
- Cold Storage / Cold-chain OperatorYou run a cold room, cold store or cold-chain service.Join as a Cold-chain Partner
- Logistics ProviderYou move goods by road.Join as a Logistics Partner
- Investor / Funding PartnerYou finance infrastructure, agriculture, technology or impact projects.Register Investment Interest
- Strategic / Technology / Research PartnerYou bring technology, research, training or institutional support.Partner With the Programme
- Not sure which fits?Tell us what you do and we will point you to the right form. Email the Programme Team
Takes about 5 minutes on a phone. Free: you never need to pay anyone to take part or to be considered. Submitting an expression of interest does not guarantee selection.
The challenge
Food should feed people, not become loss.
Produce rarely fails at one point. It fails along a chain where no single operator sees the whole picture, and where a problem found late is a problem that has already cost someone a harvest.
Harvest timed without data
Fragmented first-mile collection
Limited reliable cooling
No view of free capacity
Energy constraints
Failures found after the loss
No handling record
Producers and buyers disconnected
The solution
One intelligent network. From farm to market.
Five connected stages, each instrumented, each feeding the same intelligence layer. Choose a stage to see what it measures.
GIS food intelligence
Intelligence starts with location.
Where produce is concentrated, where cooling exists, where it does not, and how far apart the two sit. These are geographic questions before they are technology questions. Getting them wrong puts a cold room where nothing needs cooling. The programme starts in the Northern Region and the middle belt, where the tomato and yam belts meet the road to Kumasi, Accra and the port of Tema.
- Tomato growing area
- Yam growing area
- Proposed cold hub
- Market or port
- Road corridor
- Northern Region and middle belt
Tomatoes
Losses measured in days
Grown around Techiman, Wenchi and Akumadan, and in the Upper East. Without cooling, a harvest starts to spoil within days, so hubs belong near where crates are packed, not near where they are sold.
Yam
Export buyers ask where it grew
Grown across Bono East and the Northern Region, with Kintampo at its centre. Yam keeps for months in cool, ventilated storage, and a consignment is easier to sell abroad when it can be traced back to the farms that grew it.
Where should cold infrastructure actually be placed?
Where is produce genuinely concentrated?
Where are losses most likely happening?
Where is cooling capacity sitting unused?
Which market is best placed to receive it?
Farm mapping & traceability
Traceability starts at the farm boundary.
A buyer can only trust a lot as far as it can be traced back. That means knowing which farm it came from, where that farm sits, and what happened to the produce between the farm gate and the market. Cocoa already has a national system through COCOBOD. This programme starts with tomatoes and yam.
Illustrative plot, not a real farm. Each orange point is a boundary position recorded by walking the edge of the farm.
Why tomatoes and yam
Two crops with different problems and the same missing record: which farm, how much, and what happened on the way to market.
- TomatoesSpoil within days without cooling. Losses between farm and market have been studied in Techiman and in Offinso North, where Akumadan sits.1, 2
- YamGhana ranked first in the world for yam exports in 2024.3 Grown across Bono East and the Northern Region, with Kintampo at its centre.4
- CocoaAlready covered by COCOBOD's national traceability system.5 Not part of this programme.
The same farm map serves both crops. For tomatoes it places the cold hubs. For yam it answers the buyer's first question: where was this grown?
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1Map
Walk the boundary
The field team walks each farm with the farmer, records the boundary with satellite positioning, and captures area, crop, photos and the farmer's consent. Area is what turns a harvest estimate into a yield figure, so the whole boundary is mapped, not a single point.
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2Link
Tie every lot to a farm
Each harvest lot carries the farm ID it came from. At the cold hub, in the truck and at the market, the lot collects a timestamped record: weight, temperature, time and hand-over.
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3Prove
Hand over the evidence
Buyers and exporters receive the farm boundaries in standard GeoJSON, a check of each plot against satellite imagery, and the handling record for the lot. The farmer or cooperative keeps ownership of its own farm data.
One lot, traced end to end
Illustrative identifiers. This is the record the programme is designed to produce.
- FarmFARM-ASH-0142Tomatoes, 2.74 ha, farmer consent on file
- HarvestLOT-0917-ACrates, weight and time at the farm gate
- Cold hubHUB-TCHTechiman. Temperature logged every five minutes while stored
- TransportTRIP-3381Route, door openings, arrival time
- BuyerReceivedHand-over time and condition on arrival
Mapping is also what makes the rest of this programme work. A cold hub placed by map sits where produce is actually concentrated, and a nominated pilot site with coordinates can be assessed before anyone travels to it.
- Post-harvest management of fresh tomatoes, Techiman municipality, Tropical Agriculture.
- Postharvest losses in tomato, Offinso North District.
- Yams from Ghana, Ghana Export Promotion Authority.
- Yam powers Kintampo North economy, ghanadistricts.com.
- Ghana Cocoa Traceability System, Sustainable Supply Chains Initiative, June 2025.
Monitoring and intelligence
From monitoring to prediction.
A dashboard tells you what happened. The value is in what happens next, and in getting it to someone early enough to act.
Monitor
Temperature, humidity, energy, solar and battery, door events, equipment condition, location.
Analyse
Production clusters, capacity maps, temperature excursions, shelf-life risk, utilisation, route and demand patterns.
Predict
Spoilage risk, capacity forecasts, maintenance signatures, harvest weighed against available cooling.
Act
Alerts to the person who can do something, in time for it to matter.
Spoilage risk
Batch has elevated deterioration risk.
Capacity forecast
Cold hub expected to reach high utilisation tomorrow.
Maintenance
Compressor energy behaviour indicates potential maintenance requirement.
Harvest
Expected harvest volume exceeds nearby cooling capacity.
Logistics
Temperature excursion detected during transit.
Market
Available produce identified within target sourcing radius.
Existing capability
This part is not a proposal.
MulticomIoT sensors, gateways, solar infrastructure and cameras are installed and reporting in Ghana today, including smart poultry production monitoring. The cold-chain network extends this work. It does not start from nothing.
Sector applications
A multi-commodity platform, not a single crop.
The same network serves different perishables. Priority follows shelf life, temperature sensitivity and how many producers it reaches.
Fish & seafood
Temperature-controlled handling from landing point to market.
Poultry
Smart production, processing, cold storage and distribution, connected.
Dairy
Temperature-sensitive collection and distribution.
Fruits & vegetables
Improved shelf life and better market access.
Ghana → Africa
Built from Ghana. Designed for Africa.
Ghana provides the environment to demonstrate, validate and refine the network before structured replication across African markets.
Demonstrate
Build and operate in real conditions, at real sites, with real produce.
Validate
Independent measurement of what changed, not a count of what was installed.
Refine
Fix what the evidence says is wrong, before it is repeated anywhere else.
Replicate
A playbook other markets can run, with partners who own their own deployments.
Partnership
Building the network together.
No single organisation builds a food system. MulticomIoT's role is specific and deliberately bounded: the digital intelligence and IoT integration layer. Refrigeration, energy, logistics and market infrastructure come from partners who do those things properly.
GovernmentDevelopment partners
Farmers & cooperativesResearch institutions
Cold-chain providersRenewable energy
Logistics operatorsProcessors
Retailers & exportersFinancial institutions
What would be measured
Food loss
Loss avoided, shelf-life extension.
Farmer economics
Price realisation, rejected produce avoided.
Cold-chain integrity
Excursions, time in range.
Energy
Renewable share, energy per unit cooled.
Infrastructure
Hub utilisation, uptime, equipment reliability.
Market access
Buyer connections, time to sale.
People
Roles created, operators trained.
No performance figures appear on this page. Results will be stated only where they come from measured deployment data, with the method given alongside them.
Technology architecture
Physical
Sensors, cameras, cold rooms, vehicles, solar, farm devices.
Edge
IoT gateways, local processing, resilient connectivity.
Connectivity
Cellular, Wi-Fi, LPWAN and other approved networks.
Platform
Device management, telemetry, rules engine, alerts, GIS, APIs, identity and access.
Intelligence
Analytics, AI, forecasting, predictive maintenance, risk detection.
Applications
Operations dashboard, mobile app, farmer interface, partner portal, market interface.
Programme status
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1Now
Expressions of interest
OpenFarmers, buyers, cold-chain and logistics operators and partners can register now.
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2Next
Shortlist
Up to 5 sitesVisited and assessed against the nine selection criteria in the brief.
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3Then
Pilot site
1 siteSelected for the first installation. Not yet selected.
MulticomIoT operates remote monitoring and control across environment, energy, agriculture, water and remote sites in Ghana today, including smart poultry production monitoring. The Smart Food Resilience & Cold Chain Network described here is a proposed programme extending those capabilities into cold-chain and farm-to-market operations. All telemetry shown on this page is simulated for demonstration. Nothing here describes a deployment that does not exist, and no partnership, funding award or performance result is claimed.
Get involved
Let's build a more resilient food future.
MulticomIoT is building the digital intelligence required to connect producers, cooling infrastructure, logistics and markets into a smarter food ecosystem.
Ghana pilot · open
Join the Ghana Pilot
Farmers, cooperatives, buyers, cold-chain operators, logistics providers, investors and partners can register their interest now. Choose who you are and answer a few short questions. It is free and takes about 5 minutes.
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