CO₂ Dosing Efficiency
Gemüsering Böhmer increased yields 12% and revenue 10% by making every ppm of CO₂ count.
Sera’s reasoning layer turned inefficient dosing into demand-driven enrichment—aligning injection with real plant assimilation, ventilation dynamics, and environmental conditions—without adding hardware or risking crop stress.
Customer
Gemüsering Böhmer
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The challenge before Sera
Before Sera, CO₂ enrichment was a blunt tool:
Over-dosing during low-light or high-ventilation periods wasted gas with minimal photosynthetic gain.
Under-dosing during peak PAR windows limited assimilation, capping biomass and fruit fill.
Fixed setpoints ignored dynamic factors like drawdown rates, air exchange, crop uptake, and transient ventilation overrides—leading to stratification, overshoot, or lost opportunity during high-demand hours.
Teams lacked real-time cause-effect insight: Was high consumption from poor timing, ventilation losses, or suboptimal concentration? Adjustments stayed conservative or reactive, leaving yield and efficiency on the table.
How Sera helps
Sera deployed as the intelligence layer above existing climate systems, ingesting CO₂ sensor data, PAR, ventilation commands, climate logs, and Gemüsering’s enrichment protocols. It continuously reasoned over assimilation models, air exchange dynamics, and plant demand to:
Explain utilization in plain English: "Drawdown rate 140 ppm/h vs. expected 200 ppm/h at current PAR—ventilation diluting 18% of injected CO₂."
Recommend precise, protocol-safe adjustments: Target concentrations, timing windows, vent minimums, and cutoffs aligned with real-time conditions and crop stage.
Automate dynamic control: Shift from static setpoints to demand-aware dosing—inject more effectively during high-assimilation windows, reduce or pause during low-PAR or high-vent periods.
Deliver instant diagnostics via chat: Ask "Why low assimilation this morning?" or "Optimize dosing for tomorrow’s forecast"—get contextual answers with projected impact.
Enforce consistency: Knowledge Base captured their best practices (e.g., PAR cutoffs, ventilation rules) so every recommendation stayed tailored and repeatable.
No new sensors or major hardware changes—just better reasoning over existing data.
"Instead of reducing CO₂ injection to cut costs, SERA's analysis showed us how to inject more effectively and strategically."
Dr. Lukas Scholz, General Manager at Gemüsering Böhmer
The results
The Results
Crop yields increased up to 12% through optimized CO₂ absorption and enhanced plant growth during key light hours.
Net revenue grew by 10%, driven by higher output and better resource utilization.
CO₂ usage became significantly more efficient—strategic injection replaced wasteful over-dosing, cutting costs without yield trade-offs.
Why it matters
Efficient CO₂ dosing isn’t about minimizing input—it’s about maximizing photosynthetic return per euro spent. Sera turns enrichment from an expensive variable into a precision lever: higher assimilation during true demand windows, reduced waste from poor timing or ventilation losses, and data-backed confidence to push limits safely. This case shows how leaving dashboards behind for natural-language reasoning and automated insights drives measurable growth, profitability, and sustainability at scale.
