Systems and methods for measuring water usage in an assembly line grow pod
AssigneeGrow Solutions Tech LLC
InventorGary Bret Millar
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Abstract
An assembly line grow pod includes a track extending between a growing region and a sanitizing region, a cart movably engaged with the track, a sanitizer system that applies a sanitizer solution to the cart at the sanitizing region, the sanitizer system including a gray solution tank for storing sanitizer solution runoff collected from the sanitizing region, a watering system that provides water to plant matter on the cart at the growing region, the watering system including an untreated water tank for storing water runoff collected from the growing region, and a flowmeter fluidly coupled to at least one of the sanitizer system and the watering system.
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A method for growing plant matter within an assembly line grow pod, the method comprising:
- moving a cart carrying plant matter along a track;
- dispensing water to the plant matter on the cart;
- collecting water runoff from the dispensing of the water to the plant matter;
- moving the collected water runoff to an untreated water tank that is fluidly coupled to a treated water tank;
- moving the cart to a sanitizer device of the assembly line grow pod;
- dispensing a sanitizer solution to the cart with the sanitizer device;
- collecting sanitizer solution runoff from the dispensing of the sanitizer solution to the cart;
- moving the collected sanitizer solution runoff to a gray solution tank that is fluidly coupled to a cycled solution tank;
- measuring at least one of a flow rate of the sanitizer solution dispensed to the cart and a flow rate of the collected sanitizer solution runoff moved to the gray solution tank;
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- based at least in part on the measured flow rate of the sanitizer solution dispensed to the cart or the measured flow rate of the collected sanitizer solution runoff to the gray solution tank, moving water from the treated water tank to the cycled solution tank.
A method for growing plant matter within an assembly line grow pod, the method comprising:
- dispensing water to plant matter on a cart;
- collecting water runoff from the dispensing of the water to the plant matter;
- filtering the collected water runoff and storing the filtered water in a treated water tank;
- dispensing a sanitizer solution to the cart;
- collecting sanitizer solution runoff from the dispensing of the sanitizer solution to the cart;
- measuring a flow rate of the sanitizer solution dispensed to the cart;
- filtering the sanitizer solution runoff and storing the filtered sanitizer solution in a cycled solution tank;
- increasing a volume of the sanitizer solution runoff filtered based at least in part on the measured flow rate of the sanitizer solution dispensed to the cart.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.