Greener Greenhouses

Light enabled agricultural sensing

Basic Diagram of GGH project

Abstract

The Greener Greenhouses project is an ongoing preliminary work which began in Summer 2023. The project is aimed at exploring the intersection of visible light communication with plant physiology to reduce energy consumption, cost, and human intervention in greenhouses and other protected agriculture scenarios. To accomplish this, we propose an ultra-low power open-source sensing node that is powered by and communicated to via the existing supplemental lighting commonly found in protected agriculture. This approach will yield reduced costs in both power consumption as well as labor compared to traditional monitoring solutions.

Updates

  • 5/8/24 - Greener Greenhouses has been selected for funding from the Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) Graduate Student Research Fellowship
  • 5/3/24 - Greener Greenhouses has applied for funding from the Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) Graduate Student Research Fellowship
  • 2/27/24 - XtremeLux LED installation began in UCSC’s Coastal Campus
  • 12/18/23 - Greener Greenhouses has been selected for funding by the CITRIS Tech for Social Good Program
  • 11/28/23 - Greener Greenhouses has applied for funding by the CITRIS Tech for Social Good Program
  • 9/29/23 - LoRa enabled sensing solution deployed in UCSC’s Coastal Campus