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A Smart Vertical Farming System to Evaluate Productivity, Quality, and Sustainability of Agricultural Production

Authors : Nicolò Grasso, Benedetta Fasciolo, Giulia Bruno, Franco Lombardi

Published in: Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Establishing Bridges for More Sustainable Manufacturing Systems

Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

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The chapter delves into the challenges of traditional agriculture and introduces vertical farming as a sustainable solution. It identifies key input variables and performance indicators (KPIs) for evaluating vertical farming systems, categorizing them into environmental, climatic, and nutritional factors. The experimental design of an aeroponic chamber is proposed, focusing on the variation of light intensity, temperature, and EC to gather data on productivity, quality, and sustainability. The chapter concludes with the importance of finding correlations between input variables and KPIs to optimize crop production.
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Metadata
Title
A Smart Vertical Farming System to Evaluate Productivity, Quality, and Sustainability of Agricultural Production
Authors
Nicolò Grasso
Benedetta Fasciolo
Giulia Bruno
Franco Lombardi
Copyright Year
2024
Book
Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Establishing Bridges for More Sustainable Manufacturing Systems

Print ISBN: 978-3-031-38164-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-38165-2

Copyright Year: 2024

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38165-2_108

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