Research on Crop Growing Factory: Focusing on Lighting and Environmental Control with Technological Proposal

Recently, the interest in the plant factory-based crop production technologies is rising following the application of the smart farm technology to the agricultural arena. A lettuce production system platform is proposed in this study considering the effects of indoor environmental conditions and art...

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Published inEnergies (Basel) Vol. 14; no. 9; p. 2624
Main Authors Kim, Ki-Youn, Huh, Jun-Ho, Ko, Han-Jong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.05.2021
Subjects
Agricultural production
Consumers
Control theory
Crop production
Crops
Design
Environmental conditions
Environmental control
Environmental effects
Environmental monitoring
Factories
Humidity
Indoor air quality
Indoor environments
Internet of Things
Lettuce
Light emitting diodes
Light sources
Lighting
Microorganisms
Microprocessors
particulate pollutant
plant factory
Pollutants
smart farm
smart LED farm
Systems design
wavelength
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Summary:Recently, the interest in the plant factory-based crop production technologies is rising following the application of the smart farm technology to the agricultural arena. A lettuce production system platform is proposed in this study considering the effects of indoor environmental conditions and artificial light sources. The spectral characteristics of a visible ray according to growth performances were analyzed first to develop a control algorithm that can stimulate the plant’s growth for the proposal. Secondly, an imaging system was designed to analyze the plant’s growth characteristics based on the images and set up the system configuration. Lastly, a crop production system was proposed by using an experimental crop production group for environmental control and monitoring.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en14092624