Summary:
A Hi-tech start-up, established in Northern Italy in 2016, has developed in collaboration with research centres and universities an innovative system of LED lamps and software applied to the agricultural sector which helps to increase the quality and quantity of production of crops, reducing mortality, prolonging the seasonality and improving the plant welfare. Organisations and companies operating in the agricultural sector are sought for commercial agreements with technical assistance.
Description:
One of the main aspects of greenhouse cultivation is the evaluation of the alterations suffered by the sunlight filtered by the materials composing the greenhouse. Another important aspect is the compensation for the amount of energy and the type of spectrum reduced by the change in climatic conditions, for example when it is cloudy or at times of the day when the sun is setting or rising.
Taking these two aspects in consideration the Italian Hi Tech start up has developed has developed an patented technology which guarantees the flexibility of the LED luminaires in order to reproduce the ideal spectrum for better crop production. The software is able to automatically adapt the spectrum to different types of cultivars without the need to replace the lamps. The system is also able to optimise the energy consumption and efficiency using a quantum environmental sensor and to detect the radiant energy supplied to the animals , plants in order to obtain the data constituting the ideal photobiological profile.
The system has the possibility to interact with the other technologies already present in the greenhouse, in order to have a wider management and control of the supply of the specific "ingredients" (H2O, CO2, temperature, nutrients) and the different "controls" for the activation of the machines (shaders, fans...).
Organisations working in agriculture sector interested to adapt this new advanced led lighting system to their vertical farms and indoor greenhouse cultivations are sought in order to establish a commercial agreement with technical assistance.
Type (e.g. company, R&D institution…), field of industry and Role of Partner Sought:
Organisations working with or manufacturing vertical farming and indoor greenhouse farming (such as nursery, greenhouse and vertical farms manufacturers, farmers, nurserymen, companies that design and produce modular systems for the automation of production processes inside nurseries and greenhouses, genetic research centres, food industries, importers of agricultural equipment, dealers in agricultural equipment) are sought for the adaptation and integration of this advance lightening LED system through commercial agreement with technical assistance.
Stage of Development:
Available for demonstration
Comments Regarding Stage of Development:
Such an advanced led lighting system has already awakened a strong interest from research centres (universities, genetic improvement research centres...) as they have started to use it obtaining important results, for example:
for beet, a 20% increase in plant cover in just 10 days.
for microtom the plants showed good development in the very early phenological stages
IPR Status:
Patents granted,Trade Marks
Comments Regarding IPR Status:
The controlled lighting system for artificial growth is patented
External code:
TOIT20210104001
