Temporal, Irradiance-Controlled Photoacclimation
AssigneeFluence Bioengineering, Inc.
InventorsSteven Graves, Gregory Hovagim, M. Travis Higginbotham
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Abstract
A lighting system for temporal, irradiance-controlled photoacclimation includes a photoacclimation controller configured to generate control signals based on a photoacclimation schedule, a user interface configured to receive user input to the photoacclimation controller, the photoacclimation schedule based on the user input, a plurality of luminaires configured to emit light suitable for photosynthesis in plants at a plurality of different selectable levels of light output, and a communications network via which the control signals are provided to the plurality of luminaires, the luminaires adjusting the light output in response to the control signals.
Claims1
A system, comprising:
- a user interface configured to receive user input comprising a plurality of input sets, each input set associated with a different channel in a plurality of channels, wherein:
- each channel in the plurality of channels is associated with a set of plants and a set of luminaires;
- a first channel is associated with a first set of plants having a first crop identifier;
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- a second channel is associated with a second set of plants having a second crop identifier;
- a server configured to:
- receive the user input from the user interface;
- calculate, for each channel, a photoacclimation schedule for the channel based on the associated input set;
- generate, for each channel, control signals that adjust light output of the set of luminaires associated with the channel to implement the calculated photoacclimation schedule on the channel;
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- a photoacclimation controller configured to:
- receive from the server a photoacclimation schedule for one or more plants, wherein the server calculates the photoacclimation schedule based on the user input;
- receive from the server the generated control signals;
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- provide the generated control signals that adjust light output of at least one luminaire to implement the photoacclimation schedule to the at least one luminaire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.