An online agricultural system manages and optimizes interactions of entities within the system to enable the execution of transaction and the transportation of crop products. The online agricultural system accesses historic and environmental data describing factors that may impact crop product transactions and/or transportation to determine market prices for crop products and crop product transportation. Responsive to receiving a request from an entity, the online agricultural system determines an optimal transaction for the entity, such as a price for selling a crop product, an available crop product for purchase, or a transportation opportunity to transport a crop product.

An agricultural method includes providing a positive air pressure chamber to prevent outside contaminants from entering the chamber; growing crops in a plurality of cells in the chamber, each cell having multi-grow benches or levels, each cell further having connectors to vertical hoists for vertical movements in the chamber; maintaining pre-set temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, watering and lighting levels to achieve predetermined plant growth; using motorized transport rails to deliver benches for operations including seeding, harvesting, grow media recovery, and bench wash; dispensing seeds in the cell with a mechanical seeder coupled to the transport rails; growing the crops with computer controlled nutrients, light and air level; and harvesting the crops and delivering the harvested crop at a selected outlet of the chamber.

An agricultural method includes providing a positive air pressure chamber to prevent outside contaminants from entering the chamber; growing crops in a plurality of cells in the chamber, each cell having multi-grow benches or levels, each cell further having connectors to vertical hoists for vertical movements in the chamber; maintaining pre-set temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, watering and lighting levels to achieve predetermined plant growth; using motorized transport rails to deliver benches for operations including seeding, harvesting, grow media recovery, and bench wash; dispensing seeds in the cell with a mechanical seeder coupled to the transport rails; growing the crops with computer controlled nutrients, light and air level; and harvesting the crops and delivering the harvested crop at a selected outlet of the chamber.

A system for managing objects is provided. The system comprises a data collection gateway and a plurality of apparatus. Each of the plurality of apparatus obtains parameters relating to objects in a farm from a server through the data collection gateway. The parameters include a reference threshold weight of the objects. Each of the plurality of apparatus collects weights of the objects through sensors. Also, each of the plurality of apparatus adjusts the reference threshold weight based on the obtained parameters to generate an adjusted threshold weight. Further, each of the plurality of apparatus sorts the objects to different areas in the farm based on the adjusted threshold weight and the collected weights.

A local productivity prediction and management system including a weather monitoring device and a productivity prediction device. The weather monitoring device 10 including at least one of the following sensors adapted to take weather measurements of local weather conditions. The sensors include a temperature sensor 12, a humidity sensor 13, a rainfall sensor 14 and a sunlight and/or ultraviolet light sensor 15. Wherein, the productivity prediction device is adapted to over time collect local actual livestock production values. The productivity prediction device is also adapted to apply a productivity prediction model which uses one or more correlating patterns between weather measurements and actual livestock production values, whether either are local and/or offsite to provide a set of one or more predicted livestock production values. The productivity prediction device is also adapted to manage a logistical function of livestock product collection and transport with regard to capacity and timing in response to the predicted livestock production value.

The present invention provides a smart plant cultivation device and a smart plant cultivation system which, by using an Internet of things (IoT) technology, can automatically configure a cultivation environment according to a variety of plants, automatically perform zoning control of a light source module, and monitor and record a cultivation process of a plant through a user device.

The present invention provides a smart plant cultivation device and a smart plant cultivation system which, by using an Internet of things (IoT) technology, can automatically configure a cultivation environment according to a variety of plants, automatically perform zoning control of a light source module, and monitor and record a cultivation process of a plant through a user device.

A method for controlling operation of garden equipment with a battery pack including a control unit for performing the method, when the battery back is inserted into a recess of the garden equipment and in data communication, via a data bus, with a control unit of the garden equipment. The control unit reads an identifier of the garden equipment, which identifier is used to retrieve operational control data for the specific garden equipment from a memory medium of the control unit. The control unit also collects sensor data from garden equipment sensors and controls the operation of the garden equipment from the control unit based on the retrieved control data and the collected sensor data.

A method for controlling operation of garden equipment with a battery pack including a control unit for performing the method, when the battery back is inserted into a recess of the garden equipment and in data communication, via a data bus, with a control unit of the garden equipment. The control unit reads an identifier of the garden equipment, which identifier is used to retrieve operational control data for the specific garden equipment from a memory medium of the control unit. The control unit also collects sensor data from garden equipment sensors and controls the operation of the garden equipment from the control unit based on the retrieved control data and the collected sensor data.

An agricultural method includes providing a positive air pressure chamber to prevent outside contaminants from entering the chamber; growing crops in a plurality of cells in the chamber, each cell having multi-grow benches or levels, each cell further having connectors to vertical hoists for vertical movements in the chamber; maintaining pre-set temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, watering and lighting levels to achieve predetermined plant growth; using motorized transport rails to deliver benches for operations including seeding, harvesting, grow media recovery, and bench wash; dispensing seeds in the cell with a mechanical seeder coupled to the transport rails; growing the crops with computer controlled nutrients, light and air level; and harvesting the crops and delivering the harvested crop at a selected outlet of the chamber.