The present disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for inducing a desired biological response in an organism through the use of one or more repetitive signals from one or a series of LED lights designed to emit the signal with multiple pulsed components. Each component of the signal contains a one or more light color spectrum or wavelength that is within 50 nm of the peak absorption of a photon receptor of the organism corresponding to the desired biological response. Each component has a repetitive ON duration with an OFF duration and an intensity where the relationship between the ON duration and OFF duration of the first component and the second component induces the desired response in the organism through the stimulation or excitation of a molecule associated with a photoreceptor and the reset of the molecule.

An apparatus for cultivating plants according an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a cabinet forming a cultivation space; a machine room configured to be positioned below the cabinet; a bed configured to be mounted inside the cultivation space; a water tank configured to supply water to the bed; and a drain member configured to be positioned between the cultivation space and the machine room; wherein the bed includes a water collecting portion configured to store water; and a water supply portion configured to supply water to the water collecting portion, wherein an end portion of a water supply pipe configured to supply water from the water tank to the water supply portion is positioned above the water supply portion, and wherein the drain member is positioned below the water supply portion.

A method of providing light to plants. The method comprises providing a plurality of plants within a room, grouping each plant of the plurality of plants into one of a plurality of groups of plants based at least in part on a desired total light integral (“TLI”) for each of the plurality of plants and providing the corresponding desired TLI to each plant of the plurality of plants by sequentially providing light to each of the plurality of groups of plants during a time period. For each group of plants, each plant has a substantially similar photoperiod and a sum of the photosynthetic photon flux densities (“PPFDs”) of all plants in the group of plants is substantially similar.

An optical member includes a first light guide member having an elongated shape and comprising an end surface and a lateral surface extending in a longitudinal direction from the end surface; and a wavelength conversion layer disposed on the lateral surface of the first light guide member and containing a phosphor.

A vegetation wall system includes an irrigation tank, a vegetation mounting unit with a vegetation holding unit, a pump feeding water from the tank to the holding unit, a programmable logic control unit including a central processing unit and a sensor, wherein the central processing unit monitors an aspect in the wall system by measuring, by the sensor, a component of the aspect as a first component measurement, waiting a predetermined period of time and then measuring, by the sensor, the component of the aspect as a second component measurement, determining, by the central processing unit, a change in the aspect based on the first and second measurements and the predetermined period of time, determining whether the change is outside a threshold range, in response to determining that the change is outside the threshold range, determining that an anomalous condition exists, and generating an alert when the anomalous condition exists.

A horticultural luminaire includes a first and second horticultural light sources to provide growth lighting to a plant at a first and second wavelengths. A control unit provides first lighting control signals to the first horticultural light source to modulate the first growth lighting and provides second lighting control signals to the second horticultural light source to modulate the second growth lighting. A LiDAR sensor is connected to the lighting control unit to receive the first and second control signals, and having optics to detect reflected first and second growth lighting to determine the distance from plant to sensor and a biometric property of the plant from the received first and second control signals and detected first and second reflected second growth lighting. In some implementations the LiDAR sensor and first and second horticultural light sources are integrated into the horticultural luminaire.

A method for regulating illumination of plants, an electronic device, and a storage medium are disclosed. In the method, plant images are inputted into a growth calculation model to obtain a target growth parameter, the target growth parameter is analyzed according to a state shunt model to obtain a first physiological stage, a growth change value of the target plant is calculated according to target growth parameters, the first physiological stage is adjusted according to the growth change value to obtain a second physiological stage, a target illumination time corresponding to the second physiological stage is generated based on the target growth model, a target time period is generated according to the light regulation model and the target illumination time, the target time period is send to an illumination device to regulate illumination of the target plant.

Activation of a far-red light device with a far-red light frequency that includes moonlight light that promotes the conversion of inactive Pfr to active Pr in short-day plants prior to a dark period.

A computer implemented method for managing horticultural lighting scenarios including the steps of receiving lighting scenarios and storing lighting scenario attributes thereof in a data storage; transmitting the lighting scenarios to a horticultural structure for deployment on at least one horticultural lighting apparatus; acquiring runtime data generated during the execution of the lighting scenarios and storing the runtime data on the data storage. The method also comprises: receiving search parameters relative to user defined lighting scenario attributes, generating a scenario data inquiry relative to the user defined lighting scenario attributes and querying the data storage to identify and retrieve lighting scenarios having lighting scenario attributes matching the searched parameters; and receiving a trading request for one of the retrieved lighting scenarios, retrieving the trading policies of the corresponding lighting scenario and enforcing the trading policies of the corresponding lighting scenario. A system for managing horticultural lighting scenarios is also provided.

A light emitting device for plant growth includes: a light emitting diode (LED) chip configured to emit a first light having a peak wavelength of 380 nm to 445 nm; and at least one wavelength conversion material configured to be excited by the first light, and convert the first light into a light having a peak wavelength of 500 nm to 610 nm, wherein a photosynthetic photon efficacy (PPE) of an output light emitted from the light emitting device is 3.10 μmol/J or more.