Systems and methods for measuring growth of a plant in an assembly line grow pod
AssigneeGrow Solutions Tech LLC
InventorsGary Bret Millar, Michael Stephen Hurst
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Abstract
An assembly line grow system for measuring growth of a plant, includes a rail system, carts moving along the rail system and carrying plants, seeds, or both, weight sensors, a proximity sensor, a camera and a master controller. The master controller is communicatively coupled to the carts, the weight sensors, the proximity sensor, and the camera. The master controller is operable to receive information from the weight sensors, the proximity sensor, and the camera, determine a growth state of a selected plant based on the information indicative of weight, color, height, or a combination thereof, and control a dosage supply component to provide a modified dosage based on the growth state.
Claims14
A system for measuring growth of a plant in an assembly line grow pod, comprising:
- a plurality of carts moving along a rail and carrying plants and seeds;
- a group of sensors arranged in or around an assembly line grow pod and comprising at least a weight sensor, a proximity sensor and a camera;
- a master controller communicatively coupled to the group of sensors and comprising a processor and a memory for storing a master recipe, a plurality of threshold growth index values associated with plants, and a predetermined program, wherein the master recipe comprises a set of instructions that dictate a dosage supply customized to growth of plants, seeds, or both, and the predetermined program, upon execution by the processor, causes the system to perform operations comprising:
- receiving information indicative of growth state of a selected plant from the group of sensors;
- identifying the selected plant;
- retrieving a threshold growth index value associated with the selected plant;
- comparing the information indicative of growth state of the selected plant with the threshold growth index value;
- determining that the growth state of the selected plant is normal, overgrowth, or undergrowth;
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- upon determination that the growth state of the selected plant is overgrowth, or undergrowth, modifying the master recipe accordingly.
An assembly line grow system for measuring growth of a plant, comprising:
- a rail system;
- carts moving along the rail system and carrying plants, seeds, or both;
- weight sensors operable to measure weight of a payload of each cart;
- a proximity sensor positioned over the carts and operable to detect an object within a predetermined distance;
- a camera positioned over the carts and operable to capture an image of the plants in the carts;
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- a master controller communicatively coupled to the carts, the weight sensors, the proximity sensor, and the camera, and operable to:
- receive information from the weight sensors, the proximity sensor, and the camera;
- determine a growth state of a selected plant based on the information indicative of weight, color, height, or a combination thereof;
- modify dosage supply instructions based on the growth state of the selected plant;
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- control a dosage supply component to provide the selected plant with a modified dosage supply by sending the modified dosage supply instructions to the dosage supply component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.