Predictive daylight harvesting system

A predictive system for indoor horticulture, the system comprising:

• a computing system, including:
• a logic subsystem;
• and
• a storage subsystem having instructions stored thereon executable by the logic subsystem to:
• obtain a set of input values identifying a geographic position of a physical structure enclosing an interior environment and a target distribution for each of a set of environmental parameters for a selected plant occupant, the set of environmental parameters including at least a light level, temperature level, and humidity level within the interior environment;
• obtain a virtual representation of the physical structure including geometry and material properties of physical objects defining an enclosure of the physical structure and located within the interior environment that influence an actual distribution of the set of environmental parameters within the interior environment, and further including virtual representations of a set of one or more sensor devices and a set of one or more control devices as physically arranged with respect to the physical structure and interior environment;
• iteratively over time,
• update the virtual representation based on actual plant growth or a predicted plant growth model for the selected plant occupant to incorporate changing virtual representations of the selected plant occupant that influence the actual distribution of the set of environmental parameters within the interior environment;
• run a computational model to obtain a predicted distribution of the set of environmental parameters for the virtual representation based on the set of input values;
• determine a target distribution of a set of artificially modulated environmental parameters including at least an artificially modulated light level, temperature level, and humidity level by way of the set of control devices to achieve the target distribution of the set of environmental parameters within the interior environment based on the predicted distribution of the set of environment parameters;
• obtain measurement data from the set of sensor devices measuring an initial distribution of the set of environmental parameters, the set of sensor devices including one or more photosensors, one or more temperature sensors, and one or more humidity sensors;
• and
• based on the target distribution of the set of artificially modulated environmental parameters, set one or more output parameters for the set of control devices to collectively control the actual distribution of the set of environmental parameters towards achieving the target distribution of the set of environmental parameters, the set of control devices selected from a group comprising:
• luminaire devices, fenestration devices, HVAC devices, humidity modulation devices.