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;
- 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;
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- a mobile robot configured to perform transport or task automation within a grow space, as well as lift the grow module and transport the grow module to a different location, the mobile robot including:
- one or more sensors;
- a mobility mechanism;
- a processor;
- and
- memory.
A grow space comprising:
- a plurality of grow modules;
- a plumbing infrastructure including:
- a global water source;
- a water transport mechanism;
- a local buffer configured to create a local water source to be used by the plurality of grow modules, 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;
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- a mobile robot configured to perform transport or task automation within the grow space, as well as lift a grow module in the plurality of grow modules and transport the grow module to a different location, the mobile robot including:
- one or more sensors;
- a mobility mechanism;
- a processor;
- and
- memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.