How high-pitched is the greenhouse ? How many gutter will it have ? And how many itinerary does the glasshouse have ? The greenhouse builder already has an answer to all those sort of questions , because that ’s usually where the design of a project begin . They record the entire cognitive process , from the rough scheme to the fine point .
In the past , all nursery builders did this individually , but all company within the Hortivation Foundation will soon be able-bodied to substitute their design and realisation data point in the Hortivation Hub . They will also do this , not unimportantly , in the same ' lyric ' , i.e. in the same direction according to the Common Greenhouse Ontology .
In the past year , a number of supplier have work hard to formulate a usual terminology that makes it much easier to transmit with each other and thus to access data . TNO has limited itself to the data point infrastructure in this project and has learned in the past that it does not ask to break new applications for it .
Egon Janssen , the glasshouse grower within TNO . " Companies favour to acquire app themselves which march the information into new decision support . So do n’t expect an appstore or anything like that from us . See the hub as a form of carrousel on which to communicate . The hub does n’t store any information and you ca n’t bribe anything there either . " The Hortivation Hub does come with manuals that make it easy to link up to the roundabout and progress app program .
Egon explains why that is useful below . He also excuse the three latest user cases TNO is working on within the hub .
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Greenhouse Information SystemFirst of all , TNO is working on a Greenhouse Information System . " A no - brainer , " according to Egon . " The suppliers of a expression project would wish to share design and execution data in a simple way for prevent failure costs . You only need hatful and sphere knowledge to harmonise on things together . The Hortivation groundwork has helped us to achieve this .
To explain how it work , Egon gives the example of a 10 - hectare greenhouse construction project . " Whether it ’s done by a individual turnkey company or by a group of provider together , several company can work out on it at the same time . All with their own expertness . A lot is also connected . For example , the intent of the nursery may convert halfway through the process . At that point , it affects a great many part .
From the KIS , all parties involve get unmediated access to this young info and they can well check whether , for example , the screen or lighting installing they are supplying still matches the changed office . Otherwise , once on locating , it may turn out that something no longer fits , which of form be money . you may keep these kinds of ' failure costs ' even better if the selective information is well - structured . "
An additional advantage of the Greenhouse Information System is that upon bringing the death user has a standardised verbal description of how the greenhouse is build . This information can in turning be used to tie in up with ( future ) providers of supporting splashboard and autonomous cultivation .
Greenhouse Technology BoosterTNO is also work on a Greenhouse Technology Booster . This organization enables suppliers to better their nursery , their product , on the basis of technological usage datum . Egon : " By interpreting the datum aright , digital optimisation can be carried out , making the final field trials less risky and allowing the end product to be introduced to the grocery faster . And that is music to the ears of the companies affiliated to the Hortivation substructure , says Lindy van der Drift of AVAG / Hortivation .
GAIAAnd then there is GAIA . Egon call it the most innovational project of the three . " Our object is to plug into the sovereign systems that are active in greenhouse horticulture . At the here and now , it is often the cultivator who has to link up the various systems , compare them and see if they are in each other ’s way , for illustration . "
Because this task still rests on the grower ’s articulatio humeri , Egon believes that self-governing systems based on artificial intelligence , among other affair , are not yet taking off . " Only when self-directed system start to communicate with each other and take each other into report will their use in gardening really increase , I anticipate . It go bad without saying that this is an important egress for the Hortivation Foundation .
The role of the human being , the operator , remains all-important , even in autonomous systems . " The operator must formulate objective and assign weight to them so that systems eff how to share with ontogeny , such as a sudden labour shortage . If the labor organisation indicates a shortage , there is little point in advertise the crop in the greenhouse to maximum yield , for example . "
TNO has allocated four year for the ontogeny of GAIA . However , Egon have a bun in the oven to gift a first prototype by Christmas this yr to show that it is potential . There is one nonindulgent term , however : the employment of the Hortivation Hub . " All parties and systems must be able-bodied to talk to each other . "
For more information : Egon JanssenTNO+31 ( 0)6 53 46 76 64[email protected]www.tno.nl
Stichting Hortivation / Hortivation Foundation[email protected]www.hortivation.nl
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