AGRICULTURE · STATUS: LIVE
Hear the infestation before the tree shows it
In date palms, red palm weevil larvae feed deep inside the trunk for weeks — long before any visible symptom. Aures listens to the acoustic signature of that hidden activity and flags affected trees while treatment still works.
THE PROBLEM
By the time you can see it, the tree is already lost
Red palm weevil does its damage out of sight. By the time the crown wilts or the trunk collapses, the infestation has been active for months and has often spread to neighboring palms.
Hidden infestation
Larvae feed deep inside the trunk where nothing can be seen from the outside. Visual and manual checks miss them for weeks.
Late visible symptoms
Wilting fronds, oozing holes and a hollow trunk only appear once the colony is large — far too late to save the tree.
Silent spread
One untreated palm becomes a source. Weevils move to adjacent trees, turning a single missed case into a plantation-wide problem.
ACOUSTIC DETECTION
We listen to what is chewing inside the trunk
Feeding larvae produce faint, repetitive sounds with a distinct acoustic signature. A small sensor on the trunk captures it; our models separate it from wind, traffic and handling noise, then score the likelihood of an active infestation.
Capture
A low-power sensor on the trunk streams continuous audio from inside the palm.
Recognize
Models match the feeding signature against the environment, rejecting ambient noise.
Flag
Trees that cross a confidence threshold are flagged for targeted inspection.
Palm 04 · Trunk sensor
LIVE
Infestation likely
0.91 CONFIDENCE
ILLUSTRATIVE RESULTS
What earlier detection can look like
Figures below are illustrative and shown to convey scale — not measured results from a specific deployment.
3–6 wks
Earlier detection than visible symptoms
92%
Classification accuracy in field trials
10×
Fewer manual inspections per hectare
HOW A PILOT WORKS
From a single block to a working early-warning system
01
Survey the block
We map a representative section of the plantation and fit trunk sensors on selected palms.
02
Listen & calibrate
Sensors stream continuous audio while we calibrate the models to your site’s background noise.
03
Detect & flag
Each tree is scored and likely infestations are flagged for your team to inspect and confirm.
04
Act & review
Flagged palms are treated early, and confirmed outcomes feed back to sharpen detection over time.
Find the weevils before the canopy falls
Book a call and we’ll plan an acoustic pilot across a block of your palms, sensors, signatures and reporting included.