Develop a Smart Microclimate Control System for Greenhouses through System Dynamics and Machine Learning Techniques

Autor: Ting-Hsuan Chen, Meng-Hsin Lee, I-Wen Hsia, Chia-Hui Hsu, Ming-Hwi Yao, Fi-John Chang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Water, Vol 14, Iss 23, p 3941 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2073-4441
DOI: 10.3390/w14233941
Popis: Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Greenhouse farming is recognized as a promising measure against climate change. Nevertheless, greenhouse farming frequently encounters environmental adversity, especially greenhouses built to protect against typhoons. Short-term microclimate prediction is challenging because meteorological variables are strongly interconnected and change rapidly. Therefore, this study proposes a water-centric smart microclimate-control system (SMCS) that fuses system dynamics and machine-learning techniques in consideration of the internal hydro-meteorological process to regulate the greenhouse micro-environment within the canopy for environmental cooling with improved resource-use efficiency. SMCS was assessed by in situ data collected from a tomato greenhouse in Taiwan. The results demonstrate that the proposed SMCS could save 66.8% of water and energy (electricity) used for early spraying during the entire cultivation period compared to the traditional greenhouse-spraying system based mainly on operators’ experiences. The proposed SMCS suggests a practicability niche in machine-learning-enabled greenhouse automation with improved crop productivity and resource-use efficiency. This will increase agricultural resilience to hydro-climate uncertainty and promote resource preservation, which offers a pathway towards carbon-emission mitigation and a sustainable water–energy–food nexus.
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