Enclosed high-density farming environment and system
AssigneeHeliponix, LLC
InventorsScott Thomas Massey, Ivan Lee Ball
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Abstract
An indoor farming environment for the cultivation of plants and other vegetation. The indoor farming environment may include a plurality of planting towers, each with multiple receptacles for receiving seed cartridges. The indoor farming environment may provide nutrients, fluids, and light based on specific characteristics of each individual plant being cultivated and include robotic systems for planting, pruning, and harvesting.
Claims20
An indoor farming environment comprising:
- a growing chamber defining an interior enclosure having at least one controllable environmental system;
- two or more planting towers configured in rows and columns within the interior enclosure, each of the planting towers having a plurality of receptacles for receiving seed cartridges and configured to rotate about a base;
- one or more sensors to capture sensor data associated with plants being cultivated within the receptacles of the plurality planting towers;
- a lighting system having first characteristics that are adjustable based on the sensor data to provide customized illumination to each individual plant;
- a humidity control system having second characteristics that are adjustable based on the sensor data;
- a temperature control system having third characteristics that are adjustable based on the sensor data;
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- a nutrient water dosing system having fourth characteristics that are adjustable based on the sensor data.
A method comprising:
- receiving sensor data associated with an interior or an indoor farming environment, the indoor farming environment having a plurality of planting towers each having a plurality of receptacles for a cultivation of a plurality of plants and a robotic system for planting and harvesting the plurality of plants;
- generating, for each plant of the plurality of plants and based at least in part on the sensor data, one or more parameters for controlling a lighting system of the indoor farming environment, the lighting system configured to provide customized illumination for different regions of the interior of the indoor farming environment;
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- providing the one or more parameters to the lighting system of the indoor farming environment.
One or more non-transitory computer readable media storing instructions executable by one or more processors, which when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving sensor data associated with an interior or an indoor farming environment, the indoor farming environment having a plurality of planting towers each having a plurality of receptacles for a cultivation of a plurality of plants and a robotic system for planting and harvesting the plurality of plants;
- generating, for each plant of the plurality of plants and based at least in part on the sensor data, one or more parameters for controlling a lighting system of the indoor farming environment, the lighting system configured to provide customized illumination for different regions of the interior of the indoor farming environment;
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- providing the one or more parameters to the lighting system of the indoor farming environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.