Automatic evapotranspiration mitigation
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsIgor Cerqueira Oliveira, Ana Paula Appel, Paula Fernanda Pereira
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Abstract
An evapotranspiration mitigation method, system, and computer program product include checking a condition via a first sensor connected to an outside of a device to compute an evapotranspiration level and activating a roof opening of the device to deploy a roof from the device if the evapotranspiration level is greater than a pre-determined threshold.
Claims20
A computer-implemented evapotranspiration mitigation method, the method comprising:
- checking a condition via a first sensor connected to an outside of a device to compute an evapotranspiration level;
- and
- activating a roof opening of the device to deploy a roof from the device if the evapotranspiration level is greater than a pre-determined threshold,
- wherein the device is installed at a soil level of a crop that the roof covers when deployed.
An apparatus for evapotranspiration mitigation, the apparatus comprising:
- an enclosed structure having an openable/closable roof;
- a roof structure that is folded to fit into the enclosed structure, the roof structure being deployable and retractable to and from the enclosed structure via the openable/closable roof;
- a deployment mechanism disposed inside the enclosed structure and is attached to the roof structure;
- and
- a first sensor connected to an outside of the enclosed structure to compute an evapotranspiration level,
- wherein the deployment mechanism deploys the roof structure through the openable/closable roof of the enclosed structure such that the roof structure covers a crop that surrounds an area near the enclosed structure when the evapotranspiration level is greater than a pre-determined threshold, and
- wherein the enclosed structure is installed at a soil level of a crop that the roof covers when deployed.
An evapotranspiration mitigation system, the system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory, the memory storing instructions to cause the processor to perform:
- checking a condition via a first sensor connected to an outside of a device to compute an evapotranspiration level;
- and
- activating a roof opening of the device to deploy a roof from the device if the evapotranspiration level is greater than a pre-determined threshold,
- wherein the device is installed at a soil level of a crop that the roof covers when deployed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.