The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences has selected Emergent to deploy the Rip Platform at Ohio State’s Molly Caren Agricultural Center, marking the first installation under Emergent’s Ag University Research Farm Program.
The deployment gives CFAES researchers, faculty and students direct access to RipLINK LoRaWAN connectivity, Rip’s Warehouse precision agriculture sensors and Ask Rip AI farm intelligence. The system provides continuous, real-time data across soil health, above-canopy environmental conditions, irrigation and asset tracking.
“The Molly Caren Center serves as a living laboratory, generating insights directly applicable to Ohio farmers and scalable to the national research community and giving researchers and students access to connected, real-time infrastructure,” said Dr. Scott A. Shearer, professor and chair of the Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Ohio State.
Mike Roudi, CEO of Emergent, said the program connects research environments with commercial farm operations.
“For the first time, CFAES researchers and students are working with the same continuous, real-time ground-truth data that’s running on commercial farms across the country,” Roudi said.
Emergent plans to expand the program to additional land-grant institutions across agricultural regions in 2026.
