Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120124902 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING GREENHOUSE AND SYSTEM FOR THE SAME - A method for controlling a greenhouse, which can adaptively control a greenhouse depending on the kind of crop growing in greenhouse provided. System for controlling a greenhouse may comprise a greenhouse environment control information distribution device and a greenhouse control device. Greenhouse environment control information distribution device may comprise: information receiving unit for receiving information of a crop growing in a greenhouse, information of sensors mounted in greenhouse, and information of actuators; selection unit for selecting a sensor service and an actuator service, which correspond to received sensor information and actuator information, from a sensor service registry and an actuator service registry, respectively; mapping unit for mapping a sensor for providing selected sensor service to an actuator for providing selected actuator service; and distribution unit for extracting growth environment information from a database based on crop information and mapping information and distributing extracted information to greenhouse control device. | 05-24-2012 |
20130113924 | PLANT OBSERVATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A plant observation device measures the growing state of a plant placed in a measurement area and the growth environment in the measurement area while moving within the measurement area where the plant is cultivated. The quantity of light is measured during growth environment measurement, and a light transmitting state of the measurement area is detected based on the measured quantity of light and the time of light quantity measurement. The measured growing state information and growth environment information are transmitted, together with positional information, to a server of a remote monitoring system. The growth environment in the measurement area is then optimally controlled based on the growing state information and the growth environment information. | 05-09-2013 |
20130317632 | PLATFORM APPARATUS FOR AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT CONTROL SYSTEM - A platform apparatus for an agricultural environment control system includes an application support layer unit configured to generate and execute an environment task for supporting an application corresponding to an environment to which the agricultural environment control system is applied, a service layer unit configured to provide service libraries used in the application, a function layer unit configured to perform functions necessary to execute the application, a dynamic adaptation layer unit configured to define the environment task in an application layer irrespective of the number of sensors and actuators installed within the environment to which the agricultural environment control system is applied, and a physical abstraction layer unit configured to generate a mapping table using abstraction results of the sensors and the actuators and enable the agricultural environment control system to access the sensors and the actuators through the mapping table. | 11-28-2013 |
20140366434 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CROP GROWTH - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for managing the growth of crops by individually monitoring the growth state of crops produced in a greenhouse or plant factory. The crop growth management apparatus includes a weight measurement unit configured to measure the weight of a crop that is being grown using the tension of a support string connected to the crop, a crop growth and development management unit configured to determine whether or not the growth and development state of the crop or the weight of the crop is proper based on the measured weight of the crop, and an environment control unit configured to locally control a crop cultivation environment based on a result of the determination regarding whether or not the growth and development state of the crop or the weight of the crop is proper. | 12-18-2014 |
20140376239 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LIGHTING IN PLANT FACTORY - An apparatus and method for controlling lighting in a plant factory are disclosed. The apparatus includes a weight calculation unit, a height calculation unit, a light information extraction unit, and a distance control unit. The weight calculation unit calculates the weight of at least one crop being cultivated based on a sensing result received from a weight sensor disposed in a crop cultivation bed. The height calculation unit calculates the height of the crop based on information about the growth of the crop corresponding to the weight of the crop. The light information extraction unit extracts information about artificial light corresponding to the height of the crop based on the information about the growth of the crop. The distance control unit controls the height of an artificial lighting device based on the information about artificial light. | 12-25-2014 |
20150138569 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING GROWTH VOLUME OF PLANT - Provided are an apparatus and method for measuring a growth volume of a plant. The apparatus includes a measurement unit configured to generate light and measure a circumference length and an internode length of the plant by using a reflection pattern signal of light obtained by reflecting the generated light, and a control unit configured to respectively compare the measured circumference length and internode length of the plant with a previously measured circumference length and internode length of the plant to calculate respective change amounts of the circumference length and internode length of the plant, and calculate a growth volume of the plant by using the calculated change amounts of the circumference length and internode length of the plant. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AGRICULTURAL SEMANTIC IMAGE INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for generating agricultural semantic image information are provided to manage crop image information and agricultural environmental information as an object in an integrated manner. The apparatus generates agricultural semantic image information through these steps: receiving primary agricultural environmental information from each sensor of an agricultural environment semantic adaptation system; generating secondary agricultural environmental information based on the primary agricultural environmental information; receiving image information and still lo images from imaging means of the agricultural environment semantic adaptation system; extracting growth state information from the still images; and recording the primary agricultural environmental information, secondary agricultural environmental information, and growth state information as metadata for the image information. | 05-21-2015 |
20150173307 | ADAPTIVE GREENHOUSE CONTROL METHOD - Provided is an adaptive greenhouse control method that can control a greenhouse to provide an optimized environment by automatically and daily adapting to an external environment and a type of the greenhouse. The method includes performing a P-Band setting operation of setting a P-Band to determine a degree of which a greenhouse window is opened according to a current greenhouse inside temperature based on a predetermined set temperature, performing a greenhouse control operation of controlling the degree of which a greenhouse window is opened according to the P-Band, performing a greenhouse environment parameter measurement operation of measuring a greenhouse environment parameter value applied to set the P-Band, performing a P-Band changing operation of changing the P-Band according to the greenhouse environment parameter value, and performing a greenhouse change control operation of controlling the degree of which a greenhouse window is opened according to the P-Band changed in the P-Band changing operation. | 06-25-2015 |