With the rise of new technology in refinement , agriculturalist are being offered all form of new restraint option , for example , new , innovative fittings for lighting . It help growers to see , preferably in real - time , what all these new techniques are doing to their crops and particularly how the crop responds to them . In this direction , they can quickly step in where necessary . sensing element producer 2Grow has of late point out that more and more technology companies are discover the added value of sensors for this reason .
Olivier Begerem and Maxim Dedecker at GreenTech 2019.All team members of 2Grow can be seen here .
Olivier Begerem , managing director at the Belgian sensor maker : " We start out in the academic world , then also started supply agriculturalist , and now we see that more and more technology companies are also becoming concerned in sensors . We are already working together with , among others , producers of substrate products , fog and water system , and also perch producer . Everything that affect a plant , we can make open with our sensors , include sap stream sensor that measure the muggins flow , but also stem diameter sensors . It is exactly the combining of measurement that make a luck percipient . "
Targeted steering , aim measuringOften , the use of a sensor starts with one sensor ' to see what ’s potential ' , Olivier notes . " That way , the great unwashed gain experience with our possibilities . Then you see that , because grower can already control their watering per crane section for case , they also want to place a sensing element per Grus subdivision . That is also our advice : the grower place the sap flow sensor at the substructure of the plant , and what we quantify there , including fluctuation in radical heaviness , we can also transform to what is happening at the top of the plant . "
The latter is what Laura Frijters , service manager , does for and together with users . For instance , in a recently discussed case of a sap current sensor inan photograph test , she was in close touch with agriculturist Ary de Jong of HortiTech . Laura : " He needed to see what his growing choices were doing to the crop because of the LED fixtures he was try out . We can provide real - time insight into this with our detector . "
The sensors from 2Grow will be deal in the package with the Climalux fixtures , along with also counsel from HortiTech , which is currently doing the tests with the fixing . In the pic : Ary de Jong ( HortiTech ) and Laura Frijters ( 2Grow ) in this summer ’s Cucumis sativus trial with the Climalux fixtures
The growers themselves can watch the figures and Laura can also watch from a length if she care . " Together , Ary and I discovered , for case , in a winter cucumber crop , that there was a entirely unlike water demand under the lights . This is because , when using LED lights , there is more often than not less heat at the head , which means that the plant becomes less active and therefore evaporates less . If the agriculturalist , in that case , were to give the common watering , you would , as it were , muck up up the plant . you may chance that out with our stem diameter sensor . Ary has now learned to grow differently using the data point from our sensors . "
Holy grailIt is not only raiser with light who can benefit from sensors . Growers without lighting and even cultivator with outdoor crops can utilise the sensors . However , Olivier believes that the more buttons agriculturalist have to turn and control , the greater the add together value of sensors . " That is why vertical farming is the holy grail for us . As a agriculturist , you may actually switch off all outside factor and control everything yourself . That ’s when sensors follow in very ready to hand . "
For more information : Olivier Begerem2Grow bvba[email protected]www.2grow.earth
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