Spensa Technologies
Company in Lafayette, United States
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Precision agriculture |
| Founded | January 16, 2009 in West Lafayette, Indiana |
| Founder | Johnny Park |
| Headquarters | West Lafayette, Indiana |
Key people | Johnny Park, CEO |
| Products | Spensa AP, Z-Trap |
| Owner | DTN |
Number of employees | 30 (2018) |
| Website | spensatech |
Spensa Technologies was a private company based in the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Indiana that specialized in precision agriculture. The company, founded in 2009, was known for its ag-related technology,[1][2] including automated pest sensors and software. It was acquired in April 2018 by DTN.[3]
History
Spensa was founded on 16 January 2009 by Johnny Park, a computer engineering professor at Purdue University, whose research into robotics and computer vision in farming (supported by a $6.4M USDA grant) led to the creation of the company. With support from the National Science Foundation[4] and private investment,[5][6] Spensa expanded its operations[7] and developed agriculture-related hardware and software products.
Spensa's principal hardware product was the Z-Trap, an automated electronic device that detects insects in a field and wirelessly reports its data. Its software consisted of both web-based and mobile applications, centered on the Spensa Agronomic Platform (AP), a subscription-based software.[8][9]
Spensa was acquired in April 2018 by Minneapolis-based DTN,[10][11] a company owned by TBG AG.