Queensland
- Simulated date
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- Sun elevation
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- Air temperature
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- Relative humidity
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Live feed unavailable.
Growing carnivorous plants, and the systems that will one day grow them.
Two automated terrariums in Breda, each on its own simulated season. A testbed for a digital twin, and later a greenhouse.
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Intermediate
- Simulated date
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- Sun elevation
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- Air temperature
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- Relative humidity
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Live feed unavailable.
Towards autonomous protected cultivation systems
Four steps from measuring a growing environment to running one.
Sense & log
doneClimate, light, soil water and LED output are read continuously, timestamped and kept.
QueenslandControl & protect
doneSeasonal target bands hold without manual input: fog below the band, light on a simulated sun, ebb-and-flow watering under a hard runtime cap. Interlocks stop an actuator before it can do harm.
IntermediateModel & simulate
partlyThe environment is modelled: each terrarium computes its own sun and season. The plant is not. A digital shadow, not yet a twin. Setpoints come from literature and 25 years of growing.
QueenslandDecide & optimise
not startedNext: a controller that picks a setpoint from a predicted crop response.
Where these plants grow
Setpoints come from habitat: the light, the humidity swing and the season a species evolved under. The photographs are from the field.
From the build log
Holding CO₂ in band
How the CO₂ setpoint is held through a photoperiod, and what happens when the sensor stops answering.
First light in the Queensland terrarium
The first automated photoperiod, the simulated sun behind it, and the readings it produced.
Earlier entries
Installations, infrastructure changes and sensor additions, each with its reasoning.
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