Farm King Mission

About Us

Farm King is a cloud computing platform that brings together, in addition to hardware and software infrastructure, various SAAS (software as a service) IT services. Users based on a user account can model their specific business or production processes.

Centric IT is the software company that developed this cloud computing together with consultants on the chosen topics.

Hosting and application development are carried out in a context of perfect professionalism within a level 5 IT center / data center (security, resource redundancy, fire protection, enterprise infrastructure, etc.).

For the future, we want to maintain the high level of quality of the services offered and to maintain the relevance of our services.

If you find yourself in the direction and theme of our projects, join our team!

We invite you to try our services!

Companie GreenTech

Centric IT - GreenTech commitment

In everything it does, Centric IT, which develops and operates this SAAS software as a service web portal, is committed to the direction and path of GreenTech values! That is why below we will detail what GreenTech really means.

What is GreenTech?

Green technology refers to a type of technology that is considered environmentally friendly based on its production process or its supply chain. Green technology – an abbreviation for “green technology” – can also refer to the production of clean energy, the use of alternative fuels, and technologies that are less harmful to the environment than fossil fuels.

Although the green technology market is relatively young, it has garnered significant investor interest due to growing awareness of the impacts of climate change and the depletion of natural resources.

Key Principles

Green technology is an umbrella term that describes the use of technology and science to reduce human impact on the natural environment.

Green technology encompasses a broad area of ​​scientific research, including energy, atmospheric science, agriculture, materials science, and hydrology.

Many green technologies aim to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to prevent climate change.

Solar energy is one of the most successful green technologies and is now cheaper to use than fossil fuels in many countries.

Investors can support green technology by buying stocks, mutual funds, or bonds that support green technology.

Understanding Green Technology

Green technology is an umbrella term that describes the use of technology and science to create products and services that are environmentally friendly. Green technology is related to clean technology, which specifically refers to products or services that improve operational performance while reducing costs, energy consumption, waste, or negative environmental impacts.

The goal of green technology is to protect the environment, repair past environmental damage, and conserve the Earth's natural resources. Green technology has also become a growing industry, attracting enormous amounts of investment capital.

Using green technology can be a stated goal of a business segment or a company. These goals are typically described in a company’s environmental, sustainability and governance (ESG) statement or can even be found in a firm’s mission statement. Increasingly, socially responsible investors are looking to narrow their potential investments to include only companies that specifically employ or produce green technologies.

History of Green Technology

While green technology has become increasingly popular in the modern era, elements of these business practices have been in use since the Industrial Revolution. Beginning in the early 19th century, scientists began to notice the environmental impact of coal-burning industrial plants, and manufacturers sought to reduce their negative environmental externalities by modifying production processes to produce less soot or secondary waste.

In the United States, one of the most important milestones was World War II. To reduce consumption and waste, over 400,000 volunteers began collecting metal, paper, rubber, and other materials for the war effort.

After the war, scientists such as Rachel Carson began to warn of the consequences of chemical pesticides, while doctors abroad reported mysterious illnesses associated with nuclear radiation. Many point to this era as the genesis of the environmental movement, which sought to preserve ecosystems and resources while raising awareness of the consequences of runaway technology.

Government agencies slowly recognized the importance of protecting environmental resources. Curbside recycling programs became common in the following decades, raising awareness about household waste. The Environmental Protection Agency, established in 1970, set strict requirements for pollution and waste and established mandates for coal scrubbers and other clean technologies.

Types of Green Technology

Green technology is a broad category that encompasses several forms of environmental remediation. While climate change and carbon emissions are now considered among the most pressing global issues, there are also many efforts to address local environmental hazards. Some seek to protect specific ecosystems or endangered species. Others seek to conserve limited natural resources by finding more sustainable alternatives.

Alternative Energy

To provide a viable alternative to fossil fuels, many businesses are looking to create alternative energy sources that do not generate atmospheric carbon. Solar and wind power are now among the cheapest sources of energy, and solar panels are affordable for U.S. homeowners at a consumer scale. Other alternatives, such as geothermal and tidal power, have yet to be implemented at scale.

Electric Vehicles

Nearly a third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Many manufacturers are exploring ways to reduce vehicle emissions, either by designing more fuel-efficient engines or by switching to electric power.

However, electric vehicles require a number of innovations in other areas, such as high-capacity rechargeable batteries and charging infrastructure. In addition, the benefits of electric vehicles are limited by the fact that many power grids still rely on fossil fuels.

Sustainable Agriculture

Agriculture and livestock farming have a substantial environmental footprint, from the high costs of land and water use to the ecological consequences of pesticides, fertilizers, and animal waste. As a result, there are many opportunities for green technology in agriculture. For example, organic farming techniques can reduce soil depletion, innovations in cattle feed can reduce methane emissions, and meat substitutes can reduce animal consumption.

Recycling

Recycling aims to conserve limited resources by reusing materials or finding sustainable substitutes. While plastic, glass, paper, and metal waste are the most common forms of recycling, more sophisticated operations can be used to recover expensive raw materials from e-waste or car parts.

Carbon capture

Carbon capture refers to a group of experimental technologies that aim to remove and sequester greenhouse gases, either at the point of combustion or from the atmosphere. This technology has been heavily promoted by the fossil fuel industry, although it has not yet met these expectations.

The largest carbon capture facility can absorb 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year, a tiny amount compared to annual emissions.

70% of the amount of new energy capacity comes from wind and solar power.

Adopting GreenTech

While green technology is a broad and difficult category to define, some types of green technology have seen widespread adoption. Several countries have launched initiatives to eliminate single-use plastics, a goal that would require significant investment in alternatives such as paper substitutes, bioplastics, or recycling technologies. Singapore, for example, has committed to reaching 70% recycling by 2030.

Renewable energy is another frontier for green technology adoption, with fossil fuels recognized as a major contributor to climate change. According to the Energy Information Administration, solar and wind power together accounted for 70% of new energy capacity added in 2021.

Worldwide, global investments in all renewable energy sources exceeded $300 billion in 2020.

Article source: Investopedia

Centric IT - Deeptech company

Centric IT is a Deeptech company that in partnership with Romanian Universities works on projects that use the specific technologies listed below.

Deep tech or hard tech is a classification of the organization or, more commonly, a startup company, with the expressed objective of providing technological solutions based on scientific or engineering challenges substantial. They present challenges that require extensive research and development and large capital investments before successful commercialization. Their primary risk is technical risk, while market risk is often significantly lower due to the clear potential value of the solution to society. The underlying scientific or engineering problems that are solved by deep tech and hard tech companies generate valuable intellectual property and are difficult to replicate.

Definition

The term deep tech has been around for decades, representing the research and development divisions of major defense and telecommunications corporations such as Raytheon Technologies, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, and Bell Labs, to the more modern definition that increasingly includes companies in the venture capital ecosystem. The word does not refer to innovation per se, but to a category of startup companies that develop new products based on "significant scientific discovery or engineering innovation."

According to 2019 research by the Boston Consulting Group and Hello Tomorrow, a French nonprofit that supports deep technology, the most important areas of deep technology included advanced materials, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, blockchain, robotics, photonics, electronics, and quantum computing. Global private investment in these areas grew by more than 20% per year since 2015, reaching nearly $18 billion in 2018. Possible areas for deep technology application include agriculture, life sciences, chemistry, aerospace, and green energy. In the business context, deep technology has three key attributes: potential for impact, a long time to reach market-ready maturity, and substantial capital requirements.

Deep technology innovations are often radical and can create new markets or disrupt existing ones. Deep tech companies often address major societal and environmental challenges and have the potential to impact everyday life. Silicon chips are an example of an innovation that has enabled computing at a previously unimaginable speed and scale.

The time it takes to move from basic science to applicable technology in deep tech exceeds the development time of startups based on widely available technology (“shallow technology,” such as mobile apps, websites, and e-commerce services). For example, the development of the technology behind artificial intelligence took decades, and now AI companies are rapidly growing in many areas. According to Hello Tomorrow, as of 2019, it took an average of four years to reach the market in biotechnology and 2.4 years in blockchain.

The huge demand for early-stage funding for R&D and prototyping and the long life cycle of deep tech startups are forcing them to abandon the established funding progression from friends and family to angel and seed money, Series A, and subsequent rounds leading to a commercial sale or IPO.

History

Funding for deep tech companies has grown over the years. According to the Boston Consulting Group, total investment in deep tech companies grew from $1.7 billion to $7.9 billion from 2011 to 2016.

Cloud Computing Company

We are a Cloud Computing company, therefore the services we offer are based on the technologies / functionalities below.

Cloud Computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed across multiple locations, each of which is a data center. Cloud computing relies on sharing resources to achieve consistency and typically uses a pay-as-you-go model, which can help reduce capital expenditures but can also lead to unexpected operating expenses for users.

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology's definition of cloud computing identifies "five essential characteristics":

• Self-service on demand
  A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed, automatically, without requiring human interaction with each service provider.
• Broadband network/internet access
  Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and workstations).
• Resource Pooling
  The provider's computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically allocated and reallocated based on consumer demand.
• Rapid elasticity
  Capabilities can be provisioned elastically and released, in some cases automatically, to rapidly scale outwards and inwards in proportion to demand. To the consumer, the capacities available for provisioning often appear unlimited and can be appropriated in any quantity at any time.
• Metered/managed service
  Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource usage by using capacity metering at a certain level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service (e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported, providing transparency for both the provider and the consumer of the service being used.

Own DataCenter

A datacenter (or "data center") is a physical location where servers, network equipment and storage systems are hosted that ensure the operation of applications, services and digital databases.

In short, it is the "heart" of the IT infrastructure of a company or a cloud service provider.

What you find in a datacenter

• Servers – high-performance computers that process and store data.
• Storage systems – hard drives, SSDs, backup solutions.
• Networking – switches, routers, firewalls for connectivity and security.
• Redundant power – generators, UPSs, so they never go out.
• Cooling – industrial air conditioning to keep equipment at safe temperatures.
• Security systems – access control, video cameras, security.

The role of a datacenter

• to host websites and web applications,
• to provide cloud services (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, etc.),
• to protect and process company data,
• to provide 24/7 availability for critical services.

Gender Equality Plan

Company

As a software development company, Farm King is an information technology cloud that integrates various software as a service, based on which users can improve their business and production processes.

Gender Equality at Centric IT

Farm King is committed to respecting the principles of gender equality in all aspects of our work, from recruitment, to gender balance in all management-level positions, decision-making processes, in the operational execution of projects and in team/project planning.

The current Gender Equality Plan was issued in accordance with the regulatory framework "Gender Equality Strategy for 2020-2025".

The principles of gender equality, work-life balance and profession

Farm King promotes a flexible work schedule for its employees.

Gender balance in leadership and decision-making

Farm King ensures gender balance and equality in all its leadership and decision-making positions.

Recruitment and career progression

Both recruitment processes and career development plans enhance transparency.

Integrating the gender dimension into research and innovation

The implementation of our project and ethics assumes a gender equality dimension.