Every sensor we build,reporting to one screen.
Climate, light, and nutrient instrumentation from our own greenhouses and plant factory, brought together in a single control view.
Live demo
A day in a tropical growing house.
The clock advances on its own. Pause it, pick a different zone, or switch the chart to another parameter to see how the readings move together.
4 of 4 rooms are inside their target envelope
Vapour pressure deficit · GH-1 Bay A
Solid line is measured to the playhead. The dashed continuation is the modelled rest of the day.
Root zone
Mixing tank · 2,000 LLight and canopy
Room comparison
4 of 4 rooms active| Room | Crop | Air | VPD | EC | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beefsteak tomato | 28.0 °C | 1.15 kPa | 2.67 | Active | |
| Butterhead lettuce | 23.5 °C | 0.87 kPa | 1.77 | Active | |
| Sweet basil | 23.2 °C | 0.82 kPa | 2.06 | Active | |
| Mixed seedlings | 24.9 °C | 0.44 kPa | 1.39 | Active | |
| Strawberry, cultivar trial | - | - | - | Offline |
Actuators
4 of 7 runningResource use today
Since midnightMeters read against the day's planned budget. Nutrient stock counts down from a full tank rather than up.
Event log
View all- Greenhouse 1 · Bay A
VPD above 1.3 kPa around solar noon, screen closed to 40 percent
18 min ago - Plant Factory · Rack A
pH corrected from 6.31 to 5.84, 180 mL acid dosed
42 min ago - Greenhouse 2 · Trial bay
Room offline, controller in maintenance since 06:10
3 h ago - Mixing tank
Dissolved oxygen recovered to 7.4 mg/L after chiller cycle
4 h ago
Demonstration data. The readings are generated from physical models of a tropical growing day, not streamed from the research facility. Vapour pressure deficit is computed from the air temperature and humidity shown beside it, and the daily light integral is the running integral of PPFD, so the relationships between parameters behave exactly as they do in a real house.
Parameters
What we measure, andwhy it earns its place.
A dashboard is only worth the decisions it changes. Each parameter is on the screen because a grower acts on it, not because the sensor was cheap to add.
What the canopy is breathing, feeling, and being lit by.
Air temperature°C
Sets the pace of every process in the crop, from photosynthesis to fruit set. In the tropics the problem is almost always shedding heat, not adding it.
Shielded aspirated T/RH probe, one per bay at canopy height
Relative humidity%
On its own it says little, but paired with temperature it gives VPD. Sustained high humidity is also the opening that fungal disease waits for.
Capacitive RH element in the same aspirated probe
Vapour pressure deficitkPa
The number that actually drives transpiration, and the one we steer on. Too low and the crop stops pulling water and calcium, too high and it closes its stomata and stalls.
Computed from air temperature and humidity, not measured directly
Carbon dioxideppm
Once light and temperature are right, CO2 is usually the next limit on photosynthesis. A closed house draws it down fast in the morning.
NDIR CO2 sensor, auto-baselined weekly
PPFDµmol/m²/s
Photosynthetic photon flux density: how much usable light is landing on the canopy right now, in the 400 to 700 nm band the crop can actually use.
Quantum PAR sensor at canopy level, plus a fixed reference sensor
Daily light integralmol/m²/d
The day's total light, the figure that decides yield. Running DLI is what tells you whether to top up with lamps before the day closes.
Integrated from the PAR sensor across the photoperiod
Leaf temperature°C
Leaf minus air temperature is an early read on whether the crop is still transpiring. A leaf running hot has usually already closed down.
Infrared canopy thermometer, one per bay
What is plugged in
Instruments we built,and maintain ourselves.
The dashboard is the visible end of a stack that starts at the probe. Everything on it is running in our own facility, which is where the calibration routines and failure modes were learned.
Aerial sensing
The canopy environment: what the crop is breathing, feeling, and being lit by.
- Aspirated air temperature and relative humidity at canopy height
- Vapour pressure deficit computed live from both
- NDIR carbon dioxide, with weekly baseline correction
- Quantum PAR sensor for PPFD, integrated into a running DLI
- Infrared leaf temperature for early stomatal closure
Root zone sensing
The nutrient side, measured inline rather than by hand-held meter once a day.
- pH and electrical conductivity on the return line, temperature compensated
- Optical dissolved oxygen in the mixing tank
- Nutrient temperature at tank and at delivery
- Flow per valve group, so a dosing event is confirmed, not assumed
Weather station
The outdoor boundary condition, because a tropical house is always answering the sky.
- Air temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure
- Global solar radiation in W/m² and outdoor PAR
- Wind speed and direction for vent safety interlocks
- Tipping-bucket rainfall, logged per minute
Control and logging
The layer that turns readings into actions and keeps the record a trial can be written from.
- Local controller keeps running when the internet does not
- Setpoint recipes per crop and growth stage
- Alarm rules on band, on rate of change, and on sensor silence
- Full-resolution history exported as CSV for analysis
How it runs
Designed for a house with anunreliable connection.
Control stays local
Buffered upload
Calibration is tracked
The data is yours
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