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Published July 12, 2022 | Version v1
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GOhydro D2.1 - Multi-modal Sensor Kit Specifications and Requirements

  • 1. NCSR-D
  • 2. nr21 DESIGN
  • 3. SCiO

Description

Deliverable 2.1 is the comprehensive outcome of Task 2.1, which sets the specifications and the requirements of the sensor kits to be employed for the monitoring of the crop health, of the environmental factors and of the nutrient contents of the microgreen GOHydro hydroponic installations. These sensor kits, collectively referred to as “Multi-modal Sensor Kits” (and for brevity referred to as “MMS Kits” hereafter) are the components that will be responsible for data collection and data communication; it is upon these data that the AI-based platform of the e-agronomist if going to be built around. Therefore, Task 2.1 and the corollary Deliverable 2.1 are of paramount importance for the successful implementation of the project, since they need to set in a precise and concise way the design rules and to carefully select the essential components of the MMS Kits. In addition, the design rules and components must ensure that the MMS Kits are cost-efficient and easy-to-use so as to be pertinent to the envisioned goal of urban hydroponic installations accessible to and affordable for anyone. Furthermore, the MMS Kits must be designed in such a way that are not plant-specific, but they can be expanded to a wide-range of hydroponically cultured plants in future applications and forecasted products.

Towards that end, Task 2.1 and Deliverable 2.1 realized the design of the MMS Kits taking into account key features, such as (a) analysis of the users’ needs, their profiles, the use scenarios and the definition of the design requirement for functions, ergonomics, morphology and semantics, (b) ease-of-use, (c) the most important environmental parameters that are pertinent to microgreen hydroponic cultures (e.g. temperature, light intensity, humidity), (d) nutrient contents of microgreens affected by the environmental parameters in hydroponic cultures, (e) technical specifications of all the mechanical and electronic component, (f) ease-of-installation and (f) final cost versus expected performance. This task was closely interlinked to the first stages of T1.1 “Review on nutrient and production parameters and light requirements” and the literature reports as well as the requirement of WP3 “Data-driven platform”. All the above are presented in Chapter 1 (Introduction) and Chapter 2 (Crop Health Sensor Kit)

Last but not least, WP2 also includes an innovative, but high-risk element, namely the development and application of a novel immersible photonic sensor for the nutrient-content monitoring of the hydroponic plants. This particular approach is being applied for the first time and due to its high degree of novelty, it was decided to develop a separate sensor kit (hence the already foreseen separate Task 2.2) independent of the Crop Health Sensor Kit (Task 2.3). The design rules and specifications had been examined separately and are presented in an independent chapter (Chapter 3) of this deliverable.

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Funding

ICT-AGRI-FOOD – ERA-NET Cofund on ICT-enabled agri-food systems 862665
European Commission