An Open and Integrated Approach to Controlled Environment Agriculture

Integrated solutions to Environmental Control, Crop Analytics, Workflow Management and More. Presenter: Vince Harkiewicz Why Open & Collaborative?

“Primary human necessities should be open source initiatives by default. While slower to start they quickly overtake traditional proprietary innovation through aligning goals globally.

The lightbulb went off when I realized we’d been growing plants for millenia and still didn't have a global database on how to grow every crop better.

A problem we’ll only ever solve Me on the right checking out some together, and one that CEA is well suited cannabis tissue culture samples. to support.” CEA Challenges and Opportunities

New Industry with Few Best Practices Winners Compete Together 1 Most farms are still managed with pen and paper or a handful of 3 These are a wealth of innovative farmers, engineers, researchers inconsistent tools. But in an industry with few best practices looking to contribute to the industry and those willing to work continuous innovation and ongoing R&D must be a part of normal together are getting ahead. Those sticking their head in the sand business. Those that have data rarely make use of it beyond are quickly getting left behind. monitoring.

Will it Fly? Digital Native = Big Data 2 Like the wright brothers era in flight, Indoor and CEA farming 4 This new field of CEA has spun up in the age of automation and companies are innovating as they go, each one pioneering in their IOT. But the benefit of big data can also be a challenge. the quality respective niche’s. From organic hydroponics, to aquaponics, vertical of decision making is directly linked to the quality and context of farming with Robots and much more! the data being collected. Making Decisions with Data Putting the Smart in Smart Farm

By integrating the latest monitoring and automation solutions CEA business can dramatically increase efﬁciency over traditional greenhouse and indoor farming techniques. Massive efﬁciency gains are possible it just depends on your goals and creativity.

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HYGIENE BIOSECURITY Sensors to Consider

Must Have ▶ Temp, RH, Co2, PAR ▶ Soil Moisture ▶ Nutrient EC, pH, DO, Temp

Nice to Have ▶ NPK, Mg, Ca ▶ Nute Runoff Sensors ▶ Soil EC, PH, Temp ▶ Water Activity for Post Harvest Individual Plant and Batch Analytics

▶ Correlate Data to Every Plant and Batch ■ Microclimate (Temp, RH, Co2) ■ Root Biome (Moisture, EC, pH, Temp) ■ Feed (EC, pH, Temp) ■ IPM Tasks ■ Nutrient Report (NPK+) ■ Labor Reports Automate Workflows & Process Management

▶ Workflow Automation ▶ Production Recipe’s ▶ Cultivation SOPs ▶ Post-Processing SOPs ▶ Facility & Equipment Maintenance ▶ Self-Audit SOPs

▶ SOP Documentation & Internal WIki Case Study 1: Fleurish Farms, CA

Hyper Efﬁcient Indoor Cultivation with Supplemental Sunlight: By bringing the sun inside and keeping the heat out we are able to drastically cut lighting and HVAC costs, all while VIDEO giving the plants what they love, sunlight. Click the image above to watch a short video on the project. Case Study 2: Dalwhinnie Farms, CO

Grownetics is the digital backbone of Dalwhinnie Farms by Shift Cannabis and a key tool for multi-facility management.

Next Generation Smart Pharming: We worked with Shift Cannabis to develop one of the most advanced and efﬁcient pharmaceutical R&D cultivation facilities in the world. Grownetics provides full facility micro climate monitoring & controls as well as automated crop data correlation and workﬂow automation. Case Study 3: Crops For Health, CO

Crops for Health is a state of the art hemp research facility. Grownetics is working with CFH to deploy next gen sensing & automation solutions around all aspects of plant science.

Custom Research Monitoring & Control Solutions: Grownetics saves researchers many hours a week with our automated data correlation for every plant grown. This allows botanists and agronomists to focus on what they love, plant science. Open Source CEA Resources & Solutions

Farm ERP and Sensing and Community Software Tools Automation Tools Links

● ERPnext ● Arduino ● Gathering for Open Ag Tech ● Odoo ERP ● Raspberry Pi http://forum.goatech.org/ ● SnipeIT - Barcoding ● Open SCADA ● Farm Hack https://farmhack.org ● Grownetics ● OpenHAB ● Open CEA Forum ● HomeAssistant https://forum.grownetics.co ● Tindie ● Open CEA Community Chat ● Sparkfun https://grownetics.zulipchat.com ● Adafruit ● Github Awesome Self Hosted ● LibraCEA https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awes ome-selfhosted

● HomelabOS.com Grow Intelligently™ [email protected] HTTPS://GROWNETICS.CO