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Virtual Greenhouse

Simulate changes before they are applied. 

Detailed analyses of plant production, climate, and energy.

Energy savings can be achieved by optimizing the climate set points in the climate computer, but even larger savings are possible if new equipment, such as energy curtains, LED lamps, or fans are installed. In the Virtual Greenhouse, the energy savings of installing new equipment are simulated and documented.

 

• Simulate the effect of different equipment in your own greenhouse environment on energy consumption, climate, climate setpoints, and plant production.

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• Document the effects on energy consumption, plant climate, and plant production in a report.

 

• Import your climate data from InfoGrow 2.0™ and analyze the production performance in detail. Test changes you might want to   implement.  Analyze your data and find energy hot spots with very high use of energy and test different solutions to avoid them.

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Main results from simulation.

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Use of energy for HPS and LED lighting.

How to run a simulation

1. Define your grennhouse and climate control stategy

Define your physical greenhouse setup

Geography

Size

Screens

Covering

Lighting

CO2

Heat pipes

etc.

Weather data

Use weather data for more than 2100 locations or use your own weather data

Define the climate strategy

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Temperature

Humidity

Artificial light

CO2

Screens

etc.

Data from Production

Use data from your own production

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2. Run the simulation

​Virtual Greenhouse simulates and compare how your defined greenhouse setup will perform.

3. Results

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Plant production measures as photosynthesis.

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Energy consumption.

Heating and artificial light.

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Resource efficiency

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How effective is the production?

Hourly data.

Simulate a year and see data for each hour of the year.

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4. Use your results

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Strategic decisions

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What happens if you change climate strategy or hardware setup?

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Analyze your production

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Find situations where it is possible to change stategy and optimize production or ressource efficiency.

5. Reports

Generate a report documenting your production and changes.

6. Calculated parameters

Crop:

Photosynthesis

Transpiration

Canopy temperature​

Energy:

Energy for heating

Energy for artificial lighting

Climate:

Temperature

Humidity

Light at plant height

CO2 at plant height

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Crop:

Light use efficiency

Energy use efficiency

Photosynthetic efficiency

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