Hoisting management system for closed environmental facilities
AssigneeWideband Labs, LLC
InventorsRyan Edward Chacon, Jason Turner, Joshua Amos Carrier, Jared Lynn Wilkinson
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Abstract
A management system for a closed environmental facility includes one or more motorized tubular hoist mechanisms operable to adjust the height of environmental modules above one or more groups of plants. A central controller provides signals over a wireless communication network to command the hoist mechanisms to move the environmental modules to a desired position. In further embodiments, environmental sensors provide data to the central controller and the controller automatically calculates desired positions of the environmental modules based on the data and commands the hoist mechanisms to achieve the desired positioning.
Claims11
A tubular motorized hoist mechanism, comprising:
- an elongated tubular shaft extending between first and second ends;
- a motor attached to the first end of the tubular shaft;
- an idler mechanism attached to the second end of the tubular shaft;
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- a cable drum attached around the tubular shaft such that rotation of the motor rotates the tubular shaft and cable drum to wind and unwind cable from the cable drum;
- wherein the cable drum comprises a locking bolt to secure the cable drum in a desired position along the tubular shaft;
- wherein the cable drum comprises a plurality of cable drums positioned along the tubular shaft;
- wherein the plurality of cable drums can move relative to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.