plant factory

Abstract

A plant factory includes a culture room, a lighting assembly, a CO.sub.2 concentration generation controlling module, an air conditioning module, a nutrient supplying module and a controlling module. The plant factory controls the lighting assembly to meet the lighting requirement of the different types of plants at each growth stage and the different types of plants at each growth stage are in the optimal growth state and grow in a predetermined manner of meeting the corresponding growth schemes. The plant factory improves planting efficiency and realizes lean production to achieve the zero inventory target meeting plant production characteristics.

Claims

1. A plant factory, comprising: a culture room, divided into multiple planting areas according to various types of plants; a lighting assembly, used to provide variable lighting conditions to said plant factory; a CO2 concentration generation controlling module, used to control CO2 concentration in said plant factory; an air conditioning module, used for controlling of a temperature and a humidity in said plant factory; a nutrient supplying module, used for providing nourishment to said plant factory; and, a controlling module, which is connected respectively with and controls hereof said lighting assembly, said CO2 concentration generation control module, said air conditioning module and said nutrient supplying module to provide controlled said illumination, said CO2 concentration, said temperature, said humidity, and said nourishment according to said types of plants planted in each of said planting areas in said plant factory; said lighting assembly, said CO2 concentration generation control module, said air conditioning module, said nutrient supplying module and said controlling module are arranged in each of said planting areas in said culture room; wherein, said culture room is a closed-sterile-dark chamber; said lighting assembly can provide with light at different wavelengths and real-time monitor light intensity; said control module is configured with corresponding growth schemes according to said types of plants, automatically adjust said light assembly according to said corresponding growth schemes to provide said lights with different wavelengths for meeting light requirements for said different types of plants at each growth stage, at the same time, a staff can manually adjust said lighting assembly by said controlling module to match said lighting requirements of each of said growth stages of said different plants according to their own observation.

2. The plant factory according to claim 1, wherein said light assembly includes a light driving module, lighting elements, a light intensity sensing module and a monitoring module; said light driving module, said monitoring module and said light intensity sensing module are connected with said controlling module; said light driving module is connected with said lighting elements; said controlling module outputs a control signal to said light driving module according to said corresponding growth schemes for said types of plants, said light driving module drives said lighting elements corresponding to wavelengths for said different types of plants at each growth stage to operate according to said control signal; said controlling module judges whether said light intensity in said planting areas in said culture room meets current light requirements of said types of plants in said planting areas according to said light intensity real-time sensed by said light intensity sensing module in said planting areas in said culture room; then said controlling module sends said control signal based on a judgment result to said light driving module to adjust said light elements.

3. The plant factory according to claim 2, wherein said lighting elements are provided with a plurality of LED lights at different wavelengths corresponding to said lighting requirements of each of said growth stages of said different types of plants, said LED lights are arranged above said planting areas, said light driving module are set in a way of independent powering for each of said LED lights; said LED lights response to a current adjusted by said light driving module, thus forms a controlled lighting environment for plant growth in said corresponding planting areas.

4. The plant factory according to claim 3, wherein said controlling module is configured with said corresponding growth schemes and obtain said wavelength of said LED lights corresponding to said types of plants in each of said growth stages, said controlling module determines said growth stages of said types of plants at present by calculating time and images transmitted by said monitoring module, thus adjust said corresponding wavelength of said LED lights in response to a current adjusted by said light driving module, thus forms a controlled light environment for plant growth in said corresponding planting areas.

5. The plant factory according to claim 3, wherein said staff can observe said growth state of said plants through said monitoring module, and judge whether said current growth state of said plants matches said light provided now, if not, said corresponding LED can be driven to run by manually to adjust said light driving module through said controlling module.

6. The plant factory according to claim 3, wherein all of said LED lights emit red light at a wavelength range of 610 nm-720 nm.

7. The plant factory according to claim 3, wherein all of said LED lights emit blue light at a wavelength range of 400 nm-520 nm.

8. The plant factory according to claim 3, wherein all of the LED lights emit red and blue mixed light with red and blue light chromatography ranges from 5:1-10:1.

9. The plant factory according to claim 1, wherein said controlling module is a dedicated controller or a smart computer; said monitoring module is a surveillance camera.

10. The plant factory according to claim 9, wherein an interior of said plant factory is provided with at least one planting platforms, each platform contains at least two planting areas, said at least two planting areas are interval set in a vertical direction in a way said corresponding types of plants can be planted.

11. The plant factory according to claim 4, wherein said staff can observe said growth state of said plants through said monitoring module, and judge whether said current growth state of said plants matches said light provided now, if not, said corresponding LED can be driven to run by manually to adjust said light driving module through said controlling module.

12. The plant factory according to claim 4, wherein all of said LED lights emit red light at a wavelength range of 610 nm-720 nm.

13. The plant factory according to claim 4, wherein all of said LED lights emit blue light at a wavelength range of 400 nm-520 nm.

14. The plant factory according to claim 4, wherein all of the LED lights emit red and blue mixed light with red and blue light chromatography ranges from 5:1-10:1.

15. The plant factory according to any of claim 2, wherein said controlling module is a dedicated controller or a smart computer; said monitoring module is a surveillance camera.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0020] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment of the plant factory according to the present invention;

[0021] FIG. 2 is a module schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment of a plant factory according to the present invention.

EMBODIMENTS

[0022] The follow will detailed explain the plant factory according to the present intention combined with the Figures.

[0023] FIGS. 1 and 2 show the plant factory according to the present convention.

[0024] According to a preferred embodiment in the present invention, referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the present invention discloses a plant factory, which includes a culture room 51, a lighting assembly 1, a CO.sub.2 concentration generation controlling module 2, an air conditioning module 3, a nutrient supplying module 4 and a controlling module 5. The controlling module 5 is configured with the growth schemes in a manner corresponding to the types of plants. The controlling module 5 can control the lighting assembly 1, the CO.sub.2 concentration generation controlling module 2, the air conditioning module 3 and the nutrient supplying module 4 to correspondingly adjust according to the growth schemes. After the adjustment, the corresponding types of plants in the plant factory grow in a predetermined manner consistent with the corresponding growth schemes. In this way, the corresponding types of plants can achieve the growth target set manually or automatically for the plant factory. Preferably, the controlling module 5 can be a smart computer. A variable lighting condition refers to that the light conditions can be adjusted according to the growth schemes.

[0025] Preferably, the light assembly 1 includes a light driving module 11, lighting elements 12, a light intensity sensing module 13 and a monitoring module 14. The light intensity sensing module 13 and the monitoring module 14 and the light driving module 11 are connected to the controlling module 5. The light driving module 11 is connected to the lighting elements 12, which can be used for providing variable lighting conditions for the plant factory.

[0026] Preferably, the CO.sub.2 concentration generation controlling module 2 includes a CO.sub.2 concentration monitor 21 and a CO.sub.2 generator 22, which is used for monitoring and controlling the CO.sub.2 concentration in the plant factory.

[0027] Preferably, the air conditioning module 3 includes a light intensity sensing unit 31, a temperature sensing unit 32, a humidity sensing unit 33 and an air conditioning device 34. The air conditioning module 3 is used for controlling the temperature and the humidity in the plant factory.

[0028] Preferably, the nutrient supplying module 4 is used for providing nourishment for the plant factory.

[0029] In a preferred embodiment according to the present invention, the plants in the plant factory are cabbage and celery. The culture room 51 is set as a closed-sterile-dark chamber. The culture room 51 is divided into multiple planting areas 611 according to the two types of plants.

[0030] In a preferred embodiment according to the present invention, the light assembly 12 is provided with a plurality of LED lights 121 at different wavelengths, and the different wavelengths are corresponding to the lighting requirements of the different types of plants. The LED lights 121 are arranged above each of the planting areas 611. The light driving module 11 is set in a manner to independently power each of the LED lights 121. After the controlling module 5 is configured with corresponding growth schemes of the cabbage and the celery respectively, the wavelengths of the LED lights 121 corresponding to the cabbage and the celery at each growth stage are obtained. The controlling module 5 determines the growth stages of the cabbage and the celery through a time calculation and images transmitted by the monitoring module, so that it can adjust the wavelengths of the LED lights 121 to response the current adjusted by the light driving module 11 so as to generate a controlled lighting environment for the cabbage and the celery grown in the corresponding planting areas. The controlling module 5 also determines whether the current light (the daily real-time light) intensity induced by the light intensity sensing module 13 meets the preset value required by plant growth, thus controls the light driving module 11 to adjust the light element 12 to reach the preset value.

[0031] Staffs also can observe the growth stages of the cabbage and the celery by the monitoring module 14 and judge whether the current growth stage of the cabbage and the celery matches the light provided now, if not, it can be adjusted by the controlling module 11.

[0032] In a preferred embodiment according to the present invention, the CO.sub.2 concentration monitor and the CO.sub.2 generator are provided in each of the planting areas of the plant factory respectively. After the controlling module 5 applies the corresponding growth schemes of the cabbage and the celery, the controlling module 5 regulates the CO.sub.2 concentration generation controlling module to generate the CO.sub.2 concentration corresponding to the cabbage and the celery, and the CO.sub.2 concentration in the planting areas can be collected and detected by the CO.sub.2 concentration monitor 21. The controlling module 5 controls the CO.sub.2 production according to the information collected and detected by the CO.sub.2 concentration monitor 21. When the CO.sub.2 concentration monitor 21 detects that the CO.sub.2 concentrations in the planting areas are insufficient for the requirement by the cabbage and the celery, the control module 5 controls the CO.sub.2 generator to automatically operate to produce the CO.sub.2, when the control module detects that the CO.sub.2 concentration in the planting areas reaches the set value, the controlling module controls the CO.sub.2 generator to automatically turn off.

[0033] In a preferred embodiment according to the present invention, each of the planting areas in the plant factory is provided with the temperature sensing unit 31, the humidity sensing unit 32 and the air conditioning device 34. After the controlling module 5 applies the growth schemes corresponding to the cabbage and the celery, the controlling module 5 regulates the air conditioning module 3 to produce the temperatures and the humidifies corresponding to the cabbage and the celerity, and the light intensity sensing unit 31 senses the real-time lighting intensities in the planting areas of the cabbage and the celery, the temperature sensing unit 32 senses the real-time temperatures in the planting areas of the cabbage and the celery, and the humidity sensing unit 33 senses the real-time humidifies in the planting areas of the cabbage and the celery. The controlling module 5 controls the air conditioning device 34 of the air conditioning module 3 to produce the temperatures and the humidifies corresponding to the cabbage and the celery according to the real-time lighting intensities, the real-time temperatures and the real-time humidifies in the planting areas of the cabbage and the celery.

[0034] In a preferred embodiment according to the present invention, referring to FIG. 1, the plant factory may be provided with two planting platforms 61. The two planting platforms 61 are further divided into 12 planting areas 611 as shown. The 12 planting areas 611 may be internally set in a vertical direction in a manner that the corresponding types of plants can be planted.

[0035] The plant factory in the present invention can change the growth scheme combined with the acquired limiting information, and used to control the lighting assembly 1, the CO.sub.2 concentration generation controlling module, the air conditioning module 3 and the nutrient supplying module 4 to adjust accordingly so that the corresponding types of plants in the plant factory reach the growth target set manually or automatically to the plant factory. The plant factory realizes lean production to achieve the zero inventory objections meeting the production characteristics of the plant factory.

[0036] It is to be noted that the above specific embodiments are exemplary, and those skilled in the art may come up with various solutions inspired by the disclosure content of the invention, and these solutions all fall within the disclosure scope of the invention and fall within the protection scope of the invention. Those skilled in the art should understand that the invention and the drawings are illustrative rather than constitute a limitation on the claim. The scope of protection of the present invention is defined by claims and equivalent thereof.