N.THING Farm OS and CUBE Container Vertical Farm

N.THING is a Korean company founded in 2014 that designs, builds and operates AI-controlled vertical farms. It addresses unstable open-field production by letting retailers, food companies, local governments and research institutes grow leafy greens year-round with more than 15 cultivation cycles per year.

Its offering has three scales on one control platform, N.FARM.AI: Farm OS, a SaaS that connects to existing greenhouses, indoor and container farms to read sensors and drive lighting, HVAC and irrigation; CUBE, a sealed vertical farm built from 40ft container modules producing over 20 tonnes of greens per year; and Giga Farm, a turnkey building-scale plant factory with automated harvest, packing and dispatch. The platform draws on 1,767 accumulated cultivation cycles of data.

• Farm OS SaaS: real-time dashboard, rule-based control, alerts and per-cycle growth reports.
• Equipment control: drives lighting, HVAC and irrigation against target values from sensor data.
• CUBE container farm: airlock, work, nursery, cultivation and storage modules in 40ft containers.
• Giga Farm: building-scale plant factory with over 200 tonnes of annual output.
• N.FARM.AI: shared platform for monitoring, growth prediction and multi-farm management.
• Mobile management: remote access to farm status and controls from a phone.

• Supermarket chains and food service companies in Vietnam running container farms near distribution centres for fresh salad greens.
• Agricultural universities and provincial extension centres using CUBE units for training and research.
• Existing greenhouse operators adding Farm OS to automate climate and irrigation control.

• Runs more than 15 crop cycles a year versus one or two in open fields.
• Farm OS works with existing equipment and onboards in 2-4 weeks.
• CUBE modules are factory-built and assembled on site, shortening construction and allowing capacity to grow module by module.
• Provides 24/7 remote monitoring and technical support for client farms.

Retailers and food processors want stable, pesticide-free supply of leafy greens despite heatwaves and typhoons. Korean smart-farm technology is being exported through ODA and commercial programmes in Southeast Asia, and Vietnam's high-tech agriculture zones are open to container and plant-factory models near cities.

Founded in 2014 and headquartered at its Icheon farm in Gyeonggi-do, Korea. Raised more than KRW 32 billion through Series C from investors including Samsung Venture Investment, Woowa Brothers, Korea Development Bank and KT&G. Won CES 2020 Best Innovation and CES 2022 Innovation Awards. Earlier ran the SMART ACRE proof of concept in Abu Dhabi (2020-22).