Tracy Forestry™

Core Features

Tracy Forestry™ is built around the concept of digitizing the entire forest value chain, from the standing tree to the finished product. Its main capabilities include:

• Individual Log Identification: Registers each harvested log using a photograph of its cross-section, creating a unique digital identity that can be recognized throughout its lifecycle.

• End-to-End Timber Traceability: Tracks logs from the harvesting site through transport, customs, sawmills, further processing, and ultimately to finished wood products.

• Geolocation of Timber Origin: Associates every registered log with the GPS location of its stump, providing verifiable origin information.

• Patented Image Recognition: Uses patented algorithms, derived from image analysis technology originally developed for the Swedish defence industry, to recognize individual logs without physical markings.

• Secure Cloud Platform: Stores log identities, metadata, and traceability records in an IBM-developed cloud environment with security features designed to prevent tampering.

• Support for Certification Requirements: Helps verify timber provenance in support of requirements associated with the EU Timber Regulation and FSC and PEFC chain-of-custody systems.

Closing Insights

Tracy Forestry™ was developed to solve a longstanding challenge in the forestry sector: proving the origin of individual logs throughout increasingly complex supply chains. Tracy of Sweden states that its technology combines forestry expertise with patented image recognition algorithms originally derived from Swedish defence-sector technology, enabling each harvested log to act as its own digital identifier. This differs from conventional batch-based traceability systems by allowing individual logs to be recognized repeatedly as they move through harvesting, transport, processing, and manufacturing.

Tracy Forestry has been deployed across government and private sector clients as in multiple Vinnova-funded projects. A completed project delivered a commercial traceability product while expanding the company's image database and AI capabilities for identifying quality characteristics in individual logs. An ongoing Vinnova project is further developing AI-assisted quality assessment using the Tracy Timber Cloud, which now contains more than 6.5 million log images, with testing on harvesting equipment and sawmills.

Organizations seeking transparent timber provenance, digital chain-of-custody documentation, and verifiable forest traceability may therefore find Tracy Forestry™ a useful platform for supporting sustainable forestry and responsible timber sourcing.