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Unit name: Advanced Greenhouse Technology Unit number: HORT7001
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Title: Real-time greenhouse temperature and humidity sensor driven decision making
Length: 1 page Due date: 10/09/22 Date submitted: 02/09/2022
Home campus (where you are enrolled): Hawkesbury
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Unit: HORT7001 Advanced Greenhouse Technology
Essay TItle: Real-time greenhouse temperature and humidity sensor driven decision making
Introduction:
Brief background on food production through protected cropping for feeding the world.
Link to climate change and future challenges (Anwar et al. 2013).
Highlight the need for temperature and humidity sensors to drive decision making in a future of climate extremes and unpredictability
Introduce TempStick WiFi Temperature and humidity sensor (tempstick.com)
Outline the fundamentals of a Greenhouse Sensor System
Point 1: How do temperature and relative humidity sensor technologies work
Explain what sensors are used for
Any device that detects any chemical or physical properties and converts the results into an electrical signal is referred to as a sensor.
Explain how they can improve current challenges (Ahamed et a. 2019)
Regular assessments are done by the sophisticated glasshouse monitoring system with the energy management software of the anticipated power requirements and the greenhouse's available power source.
Point 2: Advantages/benefits to TempStick
Explain how TempStick works
Give persuasive argument for the advantages of TempStick
Advanced house sensors allow you to monitor the conditions in the greenhouse and easily change settings from anywhere, at any time. Using your PC, tablet, or smartphone while traveling gives you total control over everything. With the appropriate equipment, full remote control over the greenhouse is available. There is no longer a need that greenhouse management to be done on-site.
Highlight the low capital expenditure on installation
Point 3: Exploring the challenges of implementation
Cost of implementation
With many other systems, for the grower to read and analyse data from the signal once it has been collected, they would need a central automation computer, however with TempStick the data is accessible from any device.
Skills/training (King 2017)
If adequate training and skills building is invested, the technology may be used to track longer-term patters and may be used to predicts scenarios and occurrences that may interrupt the horticulture, both inside and outside of the greenhouses. As a result of synchronizing these activities, growers establish the most stable environment, resulting in the best crop yield.
Point 3: Solving a problem for low, medium and field-based protected cropping environments
One of the main resource limitations in food production is water. This is also one of the UNs sustainable development goals for the world to focus on improving. By using temperature and relative humidity sensors to understand crop water demand, automatic glasshouse irrigation can be managed with the help of systems that precisely dose high-quality irrigation water with fertilizer. This will also reduce the excess wastewater that is released into the environment meeting another SDG target.
Conclusion:
Commercial growers construct automated smart greenhouses to improve quality and yield. Through the use of simple and inexpensive temperature and relative humidity sensors such as TempStick provided by Ideal Science, low, medium and field-based protected cropping can enjoy some of the parameters used by high-tech growers to improve decision making.
Reference List:
Ahamed, MS, Guo, H & Tanino, K 2019, 'Energy saving techniques for reducing the heating cost of conventional greenhouses', Biosystems engineering, vol. 178, pp. 9-33.
Anwar, MR, Li Liu, D, Macadam, I & Kelly, G 2013, 'Adapting agriculture to climate change: a review', Theoretical and applied climatology, vol. 113, no. 1-2, pp. 225-45.
King, A 2017, 'Technology: The future of agriculture', Nature, vol. 544, no. 7651, pp. S21-S3.
Tempstick.com, n.d, https://tempstick.com/?wpam_id=459, viewed 1 September 2022,
