Systems and methods of automated indoor growing

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoded with program code, wherein, when the program code is executed by a processor of a computing device, the processor performs a method for optimizing indoor farming operations comprising:

• receiving, for two or more of a plurality of different plant types, a respective plant perishability value input;
• receiving, for two or more of a plurality of a finished perishable good types, a respective finished good specification input identifying at least the two or more different plant types, wherein each of the two or more finished perishable good types is a respective mix of at least the two or more different plant types;
• and wherein at least one plant type in at least two of the plurality of finished perishable good types is the same plant type;
• receiving an inventory input comprising, for a specific time period, a respective harvested amount of each of the at least two or more different plant types;
• receiving a customer demand input comprising, for the specific time period and for each of a plurality of customers, a respective order for a respective number of finished perishable good packages of one or more of the plurality of finished perishable good types, wherein each respective package is of a predetermined amount of the respective finished perishable good, and wherein the plurality of customer orders comprise respective customer orders for the two or more finished mixed perishable good types and customer orders for at least one other finished perishable good type;
• optimizing and adjusting a mix/pack schedule, during the specific time period, in order to control the mixing and packing operations of the indoor farm facility to respectively finish each of the respective number of finished perishable good packages using the respective harvested amounts of each of the at least two or more different plant types, and based on the received inputs;
• optimizing and adjusting a ship schedule, during the specific time period, in order to control the shipping operations of the indoor farm facility to respectively ship, to each of the plurality of customers, the respective number of finished perishable good packages corresponding to the respective customer order based on the received inputs and the optimized and adjusted mix/pack schedule;
• and
• causing the respective harvested amounts of each of the at least two or more different plant types to be mixed and packed to finish the respective number of finished perishable good packages of each of the plurality of finished perishable good types pursuant to the optimized and adjusted mix/pack schedule;
• and
• causing the respective number of finished perishable good packages corresponding to the respective customer order for each of the plurality of customers to be shipped pursuant to the optimized and adjusted ship schedule.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoded with program code, wherein, when the program code is executed by a processor of a computing device, the processor performs a method for optimizing indoor farming operations comprising:

• receiving a first input specifying that at least two of a plurality of grow lanes of a grow zone of an indoor farm facility are configured such that plants are loaded into the grow lane, and such that the loaded plants in the grow lane traverse two or more grow lane positions therein;
• receiving a second input specifying that each of a plurality of different plant species requires a corresponding amount of growing time between when a plant is loaded into the grow lane and when it is unloaded from the grow lane to be harvested;
• receiving a third input specifying respective assignments of a respective one of the plurality of plant species to at least two of the plurality of grow lanes, wherein the plurality of plant species-to-grow lane assignments include at least two different plant species of the plurality of plant species;
• determining an optimized seeding schedule, including determining a time that seeds for the corresponding plurality of different plant species will respectively be planted in the indoor farm facility in order to control a timing of unloading the plant species from the respective plurality of grow lanes of the grow zone;
• and
• generating instructions for planting the corresponding plurality of different plant species in the indoor farm facility in accordance with the determined optimized seeding schedule.