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US 12,356,897 B2Granted
Photoperiod manipulation
AssigneeFluence Bioengineering, Inc.
InventorsMatthew Travis Higginbotham, Timothy Knauer
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Abstract
The systems and methods disclosed herein include an apparatus that includes a user interface configured to receive user input, and a photoperiod controller configured to calculate a photoperiod schedule for one or more plants based on the user input and generate control signals that adjust light output of at least one luminaire to implement the photoperiod schedule.
Claims17
An apparatus, comprising:
- a user interface configured to receive user input, the user input including at least a crop identifier indicating at least one of a plant genus, species, variety, and cultivar;
- and
- a photoperiod controller configured to:
- calculate a photoperiod schedule for one or more plants based on the user input, wherein the photoperiod schedule comprises a plurality of time periods and/or growth stages for the one or more plants, and a photoperiod duration for each of said time periods and/or the growth stages;
- adjust the photoperiod schedule based on additional user input, the additional user input including at least one of climate parameters, duration of a growth stage, duration of a photoperiod cycle, and one or more time periods with corresponding irradiance deltas;
- generate control signals that adjust light output of at least one luminaire to implement the photoperiod schedule;
- and
- transmit the control signals to the at least one luminaire via a communications gateway connected to the photoperiod controller, the communications gateway communicatively coupled to a plurality of luminaires over a network.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, via a user interface of a controller, user input, the user input including at least a crop identifier indicating at least one of a plant genus, species, variety, and cultivar, for generating a photoperiod schedule for one or more plants;
- calculating the photoperiod schedule based on the user input, wherein the photoperiod schedule comprises a plurality of time periods and/or growth stages for the one or more plants, and a photoperiod duration for each of said time periods and/or the growth stages;
- adjusting the photoperiod schedule based on additional user input, the additional user input including at least one of climate parameters, duration of a growth stage, duration of a photoperiod cycle, and one or more time periods with corresponding irradiance;
- generating control signals that adjust light output of at least one luminaire to implement the photoperiod schedule;
- and
- transmitting the control signals to the at least one luminaire via a communications gateway connected to the controller, the communications gateway communicatively coupled to a plurality of luminaires over a network.
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A system, comprising:
- a photoperiod controller configured to generate control signals based on a photoperiod schedule and transmit the control signals to at least one luminaire via a communications gateway connected to the photoperiod controller, the communications gateway communicatively coupled to a plurality of luminaires over a communications network;
- a user interface configured to receive a user input and an additional user input to the photoperiod controller, the photoperiod schedule based on the user input and the additional user input, wherein the photoperiod schedule comprises a plurality of time periods and/or growth stages for one or more plants, and a photoperiod duration for each of said time periods and/or the growth stages, the user input including at least a crop identifier indicating at least one of a plant genus, species, variety, and cultivar;
- the plurality of luminaires configured to emit light suitable for photosynthesis in plants at a plurality of different selectable levels of light output;
- and
- the communications network via which the control signals are provided to the plurality of luminaires, the plurality of luminaires adjusting the light output in response to the control signals.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.