Heimdall turns your DJI Mini drone into a full precision agriculture system โ detecting weeds, fungi, and pests at field level, generating variable-rate spray prescriptions, and building your IPM compliance record. Entirely on your Mac (e.g. a one-time Mac mini farm-office purchase, plus the iOS companion app). Your data never leaves your farm.
Complying with EU Integrated Pest Management (IPM) rules shouldn't feel like you are farming blindfolded. But right now, the system asks farmers to abandon the safety net of preventative spraying and replace it with weather-based guesswork, manual sticky traps, and expensive, time-consuming field walks.
When regulations require documented, threshold-based IPM decisions and a strict legal duty to keep plant protection product records, you need more than a generic forecast to protect your yields. You need hard data.
Enter Heimdall.Heimdall is the digital eyes on your farm. By leveraging one of the most regionally diverse training datasets for European crops, Heimdall's advanced AI provides species-level detection that improves every season as the dataset grows.
Here is how Heimdall turns IPM compliance from a regulatory headache into a competitive advantage:
No more waiting for a regional forecast to tell you what might happen. Heimdall gives you verified, AI-backed photo evidence of the exact pest threatening your crop today, allowing you to react immediately.
Meeting the documentation requirements of Directive 2009/128/EC can be a massive administrative burden. Heimdall provides the real-time monitoring safety net you need to confidently meet your record-keeping duties without endless paperwork.
When you know exactly what the pest is and where the outbreak is localised, you don't have to panic-spray 100 hectares. You spot-treat. You save thousands on chemical costs, combat herbicide resistance, and effortlessly breeze through your farm audits using Heimdall's detection logs as proof of compliance.
For too long, IPM has meant handing control over to the weather, the bugs, and the auditors. Heimdall hands the control back to you. With advanced detection in your pocket, you decide when to spray, where to spray, and exactly how to protect your livelihood.
Heimdall runs 100% offline on your Mac (e.g. a one-time Mac mini farm-office purchase, plus the iOS companion app). No imagery, no field coordinates, no crop data ever leave your device. You get the intelligence โ you keep the control.
Get HeimdallHerbicide costs have increased 40โ60% since 2020. Applying full rates across the entire field when only 30% of it has a weed problem is not agronomy โ it's habit.
Black-grass and wild oat are developing resistance to ACCase and ALS inhibitors across Northern Europe. Blanket spraying accelerates the problem. Targeted application slows it.
EU Directive 2009/128/EC requires documented, threshold-based IPM decisions. A handwritten scouting log is no longer sufficient evidence for farm audits.
Draw your field boundary on the map, enter your crop and sowing date. Heimdall loads the agronomic profile automatically.
Export a precision waypoint mission to your drone. Heimdall guides the drone at the exact altitude for your cell size, with optional terrain-following for hilly ground.
Import the SD card images. Heimdall's on-device AI (Apple Neural Engine) detects weeds, fungi, and insects species by species, and calculates vegetation indices per cell.
Generate a variable-rate application map as Shapefile or GeoJSON, imported by most modern sprayer terminals. Spray where it matters. Skip where it doesn't.
Identifies weeds, fungi, and insects by species using EPPO-coded classification. Black-grass is not the same threat as chickweed. Heimdall knows the difference.
Treatment thresholds adjust automatically for crop growth stage (BBCH) and species competitiveness. You spray at the right moment, not a moment too early.
Each grid cell gets its own application rate from 0% to 100%. Export directly to Shapefile or GeoJSON for your ISOBUS terminal. Reduce input volume without reducing efficacy.
A built-in audit trail scores your season against EU IPM criteria across four rubrics: monitoring frequency, threshold-based decisions, spatial targeting, and evidence trail. Export a signed PDF for farm audits.
A manual terrain calibration flight builds a 3D elevation map of your field. Missions automatically adjust altitude over hills and hollows, keeping the drone at the correct imaging height across uneven ground.
All AI inference runs on your Mac (e.g. a Mac mini in the farm office) via the Apple Neural Engine. No images, no field data, no coordinates are ever transmitted. Weather data is fetched anonymously from Open-Meteo using only your approximate location.
"The most widely owned precision-class drone in Europe. No additional hardware required."
"Superior sensor for terrain-following calibration and low-light canopy analysis."
No DJI Enterprise account required. No third-party SDK. Works with standard DJI Fly.
Heimdall improves with every field. The contributor programme invites users to submit annotated images of new weed species, disease symptoms, and insect damage from their own region. Every approved submission directly refines the detection models โ meaning the software gets more accurate for crops and climates like yours.
Contributors who submit 100 or more annotated images in a year unlock a discounted annual maintenance rate. You're not just a customer. You're part of the team that builds one of the most regionally diverse agricultural AI datasets in Europe.
Your local black-grass ecotype or regional fungal strain is seen and learned.
Contributor submissions trigger priority model refinement cycles.
100+ approved annotations per year qualifies you for the contributor maintenance rate.
Everything you need to get started.
After your first year of free upgrades.
For active contributors.
The software functions fully without a maintenance plan after the first year. You keep the version you have. Maintenance is for users who want continued model improvements and feature upgrades.
"Currently in field trials across arable farms in Germany, the Netherlands, and France. Early access available now."
Heimdall is developed and maintained in Europe, for European farmers.
No. All analysis runs entirely on your Mac. The only network request is an anonymous weather query for the Spray Window feature.
DJI Mini 4 Pro and Mini 5 Pro. No DJI Enterprise account or SDK licence required.
Heimdall exports standard Shapefile and GeoJSON prescription maps imported by most modern sprayer terminals.
Winter wheat, spring wheat, barley, oilseed rape, maize, and rye at launch, with more profiles added in each update.
The software continues to work fully on the version you have. Maintenance plans are optional and provide access to new model versions and features.
Users who submit 100 or more approved annotated images per year through the Heimdall Portal qualify for the discounted โฌ399 maintenance rate and help improve detection accuracy for everyone.
Never. No imagery, coordinates, or field data leave your Mac during analysis. Contributor submissions are voluntary and separately handled.