Grow system
AssigneeHippo Harvest Inc.
InventorsEitan Marder-Eppstein, Wim Meeussen, Alexander Boenig
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Abstract
A grow system. The system includes growing plants in grow modules that are individually moveable. The plants grow in trays where roots never touch the water supply. The plumbing to the grow modules is a low flow, one way flow continual drip system that is hands free. A mobile robot can navigate around a growspace, bring any grow module from one location to another, and perform growspace operations. The growspace is a control space with data source zones and a control space manager. The control space manager can collect data and control different variables across different data source zones in order to determine optimal policies and conditions for data source growth and generation.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a grow module;
- a plumbing infrastructure including:
- a global water source;
- a water transport mechanism;
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- a local buffer configured to create a local water source to be used by the grow module, the local water source being decoupled from the global water source such that cross-contamination of water from the local water source and the global water source is prevented;
- a grow space including:
- one or more variable controllers configured for adjusting one or more variables in the grow space;
- one or more sensors for gathering data;
- a data source zone configured to house the grow module;
- and
- a grow space manager configured to determine degrees of adjustment to the one or more variables for the data source zone;
- wherein the grow space manager is further configured to collect or store data gathered from the one or more sensors;
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- a mobile robot configured to perform transport or task automation within the grow space, the mobile robot including:
- one or more sensors;
- a mobility mechanism;
- a processor;
- and
- memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.