METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GROWING PLANTS UNDER CONTROLLED CONDITIONS Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC A01G31/02 A01G9/24 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to methods and devices for controlling the cultivation of plants in a controlled environment provided by a controlled cultivation system. The method involves planting, growing and harvesting plants in a controlled system, collecting and processing information, comparing controlled environmental parameters with given growing conditions, and regulating growing based on the data obtained. Before planting the seeds, machine-readable marks contained on the seed package are visually scanned by the remote control device PC3 and the seed data is sent to the remote control and information storage device PC2. Based on the information contained in the database, PC2 determines a place for planting a plant and sends to PC3 information about the planting place indicating a visually and machine-readable mark or a notification about the impossibility of growing this type of plant due to the lack of free shelves with the conditions required by the plant. In the case of determining the planting site using PC3, the mark on the growing shelf is checked by scanning, and if the shelf corresponds to a certain PC2, plants are planted, the label is rescanned and information is sent to PC2 about the start of the growing process. PC2 updates the information in the database and sends to the control and data acquisition device PC1 of the corresponding growing module the daily cyclogram of the corresponding plant growing phase. Sensors D send information about the state of the growing medium to PC1, PC1 compares the received readings with the nominal values from the cyclogram and, if necessary, sends control commands to actuators AND. If the execution of commands from PC1 by actuators AND does not provide the required result, then PC1 sends to PC2 a message about the need for user intervention and switches to the mode of saving plants. PC2 sends information about the problem indicating visually and machine-readable marks on growing objects that require user intervention on PC3; after the user eliminates the reason for the inability to maintain the conditions required by the plants, PC1 determines the return of the sensor readings to the cyclogram ranges, returns to growing according to the cyclogram and transmits the corresponding information to PC2, which controls, in accordance with the database data, all the established plant growing phases for each of the growing modules. At the end of the intermediate growing phase of the plant on the growing module, PC2 sends to PC1 the growing sequence for the next phase. When cultivation is complete, PC2 sends PC3 information about the need to harvest from the specified shelf, indicating the visual and machine-readable mark of the shelf. Upon completion of the harvest, information about harvesting is recorded by scanning marks using PC3, the received information is sent by PC3 to PC2, which updates the information in the database. The system comprises a control and data acquisition device connected to a remote control and information storage device, sensors for monitoring system operating parameters, actuators and a remote control device.

EFFECT: improving the quality of control of the growth process in real time in automatic mode in relation to specific objects of growing plants.

11 cl, 2 dwg