Controlled agricultural systems and methods of managing agricultural systems

A method of providing a horticultural platform as a service, comprising:

• receiving, at a first communications interface, raw input data from a plurality of input devices, each of the plurality of input devices providing the raw input data in a format specific to the input device, the raw input data including at least plant growth data for one or more plants;
• receiving, at a second communications interface, application input from one or more applications via one or more application programming interfaces (APIs), the application input including input from at least a third party application and including a growth goal for the one or more plants provided by a user;
• processing, by one or more processors, the raw input data into standardized plant growth input data by classifying, by the one or more processors, the raw input data into a plurality of input types and by standardizing, by the one or more processors, for each input type, the raw input data classified as that input type, the plurality of input types including at least one of structured/relational data and unstructured data;
• generating, by the one or more processors, output data and application output based on the standardized plant growth input data and the application input, the application output comprising data regarding growth of the one or more plants in an indoor horticultural environment, and the output data comprising control commands for controlling at least one of a plurality of output devices to affect growth of the one or more plants in the indoor horticultural environment to achieve the growth goal for the one or more plants, the control commands being generated at least partially based on selecting specific control commands that have a highest probable success score for reaching the growth goal of the one or more plants within constraints of the indoor horticultural environment from among a list of possible control commands;
• transmitting, by the first communications interface, the output data to the plurality of output devices;
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• transmitting, by the second communications interface, the application output to the one or more applications via the one or more APIs, at least one of the one or more APIs including a user identification.