A controlled greenhouse environment allows crops to grow and thrive with minimal use of water and fertilizers, no matter the external weather conditions. This article covers the new features to fine-tune your greenhouse climate, with data-driven, crop-centric climate control. With the help of cutting-edge technology, greenhouse climate control solutions help growers optimize their greenhouse climate to become more efficient, and more sustainable, through intelligent process automation.
Minimise physiological disorders
Understanding the relationship between the climate and your crop is the key to a healthy and profitable yield. Balancing plant needs along with running costs is necessary at every step of the process. Growing at scale while maintaining full awareness of what is happening to your crops is a demanding task. This has become even more challenging with recent extremely high natural gas and fertilizer prices. This cost consideration has created a pressing need for growers to lower natural gas consumption and understand how to balance irrigation, temperature and humidity without risking crop production losses, or plant diseases like fungi or physiological disorders.
With Ridder’s greenhouse climate control solutions, you can future-proof your crop. The synergy as a result of combined automated climate and irrigation control gives growers new possibilities to use their resources wisely and cost-effectively, with smart controls that provide maximum production and prioritise plant health.
The best climate for your crops with minimal use of resources
Intelligent greenhouse climate and irrigation control is the beating heart of any greenhouse setup. Ridder climate computers and software are specifically designed to help you manage energy, water and other scarce or expensive resources, so you can cultivate crops with maximum efficiency.
In the physiological process of growing a crop, multiple factors are interconnected with each other in a multidimensional process. The relations between factors such as energy (light, heat) and water (irrigation, nutrient uptake, evaporation etc) are essential. Therefore, Ridder’s automated solutions are designed from a crop-centric approach, which facilitates a smart connective solution between both irrigation and climate controls.
In this way, all essential plant control metrics relate to each other, which facilitates to creation of an optimum growing strategy based upon accurate insight and control over the complete physiology of the crop. This allows you to consider the effect of your strategy from a 360-degree perspective. Next to this, each element of the greenhouse climate can be managed with advanced software solutions that make greenhouse growing easily manageable and cost-effective.
For example, it is possible to eliminate the ineffective use of CO2 with smart algorithms optimizing the cost and benefit of applying liquid CO2 to stimulate photosynthesis and fully automate CO2 dosing based on what is necessary for healthy crops. New features are added frequently, such as automated Daily Light Integral (DLI) control, which gives growers the ability to automatically reach the right amount of light using the maximum amount of available sunlight and minimizing input of lamps whilst reaching the right DLI sum every day.
Efficient set-up of climate settings
Growers can choose to use the most basic climate control settings to automate day-to-day processes, or, they can use new Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments that offer advanced climate computer settings. These help to achieve cultivation goals and can be a powerful tool to monitor and get maximum results, especially when the business is scaling up and becomes harder to manage by one head grower.
With AI technology, growers are in complete control of every aspect of the growing process, with insights and analysis that helps you understand the needs of your plant.
Ridder’s climate control solutions put the power in grower’s hands with a unique user interface that offers a comprehensive customer summary, giving you everything you need to know about your greenhouse all in one easy-to-use data dashboard. Our unique, advanced data visualization provides an all-in-one overview of your greenhouse activity and understand how different factors can inform your climate and growing strategy.
Full service support to future-proof your crops
Improving growing conditions with smart climate control can significantly improve crop yield and reduce energy use. With Ridder, growers can request full-service support to setup, maintain and keep their climate computer up-to-date.
Discuss your specific situation with our process automation and climate experts. You can expect advice on how to get the best greenhouse climate control and how a climate computer can help you do this. Request a greenhouse climate computer quick scan today.
