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Research on crop growing factory: focusing on lighting and environmental control

Recently, the interest in plant factory-based crop production technologies is rising following the application of smart farm technology to the agricultural arena.

A lettuce production system platform is proposed in this study considering the effects of indoor environmental conditions and artificial light sources. The spectral characteristics of a visible ray according to growth performances were analyzed first to develop a control algorithm that can stimulate the plant’s growth for the proposal.

Secondly, an imaging system was designed to analyze the plant’s growth characteristics based on the images and set up the system configuration. Lastly, a crop production system was proposed by using an experimental crop production group for environmental control and monitoring.

Read the complete article at www.mdpi.com.

Kim, K.-Y.; Huh, J.-H.; Ko, H.-J. Research on Crop Growing Factory: Focusing on Lighting and Environmental Control with Technological Proposal. Energies 2021, 14, 2624. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14092624 

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