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Botanical-garden & seed-vault visitor technology

Smartphone apps that identify plants from photos, match them to a garden's own collection and add facts, quizzes and a personal collection — from prototypes to live apps such as Bogor's JAWARA.

Maturity 6/9 Risk: low Bio-Tourism & Nature Recreation verified 2026-10-16 · 5 Sources

1 · What it gives

A technology-enabled botanical-garden visit helps visitors explore plants and collections on site while collecting personal artefacts and learning. It replaces purely paper- or staff-based interpretation by moving plant identification and learning support onto smartphones. Maturity ranges from prototypes (BotaXplore) to live apps: Bogor Botanic Gardens’ JAWARA had 1,461 downloads from April 2018 to April 2019, peaking in June–July.

2 · What it replaces 6

D1	Process equipment for residue-to-product plants — anaerobic digesters and biogas upgrading, composting turners and granulation lines, biomass pelleting, pyrolysis and carbonization kilns — instead of incinerators, landfill, open lagoons and open burning Replaces: Landfill and open dumping of organic waste; open burning of crop residues; open anaerobic lagoons; incineration of wet organic waste	EAC
D3	Biomass district heating instead of heating oil and coal Replaces: Heating oil and coal in district-heating and combined heat-and-power plants	FUEL
D2	Composting and anaerobic digestion of separately collected biowaste instead of landfill Replaces: Landfilling of food and garden waste (methane emissions, leachate) and its incineration with mixed waste	SERV
D2	Crop residues (rice and wheat straw, cane trash) managed by in-situ incorporation with microbial decomposers, mulching and collection for biogas/bio-CNG instead of open-field burning Replaces: Open burning of rice/wheat straw and sugarcane trash to clear fields between crops; pre-harvest cane burning	AGROCHEM
D3	Odour, H₂S, ammonia and VOC emissions treated by biofilters, biotrickling filters and bioscrubbers instead of chemical scrubbers (caustic/hypochlorite/acid) and thermal oxidizers Replaces: Chemical scrubbers dosing sodium hydroxide, sodium hypochlorite and sulfuric acid; regenerative/thermal oxidizers burning gas to destroy …	EAC
D3	Biogas and biomethane from organic waste instead of firewood, charcoal, LPG and diesel Replaces: Firewood, charcoal and dung as cooking fuel (household air pollution); fossil LPG and natural gas for cooking and heat; diesel-generator …	FUEL

3 · How to implement 4 steps

1
Capture and identify
Capture a plant image on a mobile device and run photo-based identification.
2
Match to the collection
Match results against the garden’s own plant database to keep content local.
3
Teach
Provide plant facts and quizzes generated from the retrieved information.
4
Collect and guide
Save scanned plants to a personal collection and offer tour-based, semi-guided and exploratory modes.

4 · Who delivers

Matched suppliers (matched automatically)

MENA-Water	United Arab Emirates	Producer	active
IETOS	Egypt	Services / consulting	active
Jindalai Environmental 金达莱 (SSE 688057)	China	Research / RTO	active
Kenya Animal Genetic Resources Centre	Kenya	Producer	active
Lootah BioFuels	United Arab Emirates	Producer	active
Phool.co	India	Distributor	active
Wetlands Construidos	Brazil	Services / consulting	active
Henan Jiyuan Baiyun Industry Co., Ltd.	China	Producer	active
AgriFam PT	Indonesia	Producer	active
BM GreenTech Berhad	Malaysia	Research / RTO	active
Beijing Shougang LanzaTech	China	Services / consulting	active
Bioceres Crop Solutions (NASDAQ: BIOX)	Argentina	Producer	active

Leading companies and institutes (from the brief)

Examples named in the sources: the BotaXplore prototype from a botanical institute, Candide Ltd/Botanical Software (including Hortis and digital tour components) and Bogor Botanic Gardens’ JAWARA. The sources identify no regulator, standard or programme for this kind of visitor technology. Operators are matched by the portal under Bio-Tourism & Nature Recreation.

5 · Rules & route to market

Route into Russia / EAEU: EAC · EAEU accredited bodies / Rosakkreditatsiya
declaration registered within 3 working days (testing extra); certification longer
Information, not legal advice — confirm the procedure for your product. (2026-10-06)

United States

The sources reviewed on 2026-10-16 identified no the US regulator or standard specific to this technology. Treat the route as case-by-case and ask for a check.

European Union

The sources reviewed on 2026-10-16 identified no the EU regulator or standard specific to this technology. Treat the route as case-by-case and ask for a check.

China

The sources reviewed on 2026-10-16 identified no China regulator or standard specific to this technology. Treat the route as case-by-case and ask for a check.

6 · Money: tenders & grants

Grant	Innovative circular solutions for end-of-life footwear through collection, sorting and recycling European Commission · EU	Sep 22, 2027 341 days
Grant	Boosting Innovative GEOINT - Science & Technology Broad Agency Announcement (BIG-ST BAA) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · United States	Dec 14, 2026 59 days
Grant	NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program U.S. National Science Foundation · United States	Mar 2, 2027 137 days
Grant	Powering Affordable Reliable Technology (PART) Energy Program Rural Utilities Service · United States	rolling

7 · Tech stack & innovations

Main risks from the sources: technical reliability (downloads and updates, AR accuracy, ’locate me’ bugs), infrastructure limits such as Wi-Fi and connectivity cost, and outdated content as gardens change.

Sources 5

Dl.acm.org — dl.acm.org 2026-10-16
Doi.org — doi.org 2026-10-16
Museumsandtheweb.com — museumsandtheweb.com 2026-10-16
Doi.org — doi.org 2026-10-16
Bgci.org — www.bgci.org 2026-10-16