Welcome to Smart-Farms!

Our project is all about saving water, increasing efficiency and reducing the environmental impacts of ornamental plant production practices! We are using wireless sensor networks and environmental modeling to more accurately predict and apply irrigation water in nursery and greenhouse operations, and to monitor green roofs for stormwater mitigation.

Our Immediate Goal is to provide growers with the ability to precisely monitor and control applications of water and nutrients to plants in these production settings, based upon daily plant requirements.

The Purpose of this web site and knowledge center is to provide you with an overview of our project and information about the research and development a new and advanced environmental monitoring and irrigation system. We are actively collaborating with a number of commercial growers using their production areas as test environments. These collaborations will help us learn to best implement this new technology to minimize cost and maximize efficiency.

Our Vision is to provide the nursery and greenhouse industries with cost-effective equipment and strategies that can be used to reduce the volume and cost of inputs, increase profitability, reduce the environmental impacts of nursery and greenhouse production and encourage sustainable practices in the United States and beyond.

To Access our Knowledge Center, please take a minute to register on this site. Logging in will allow you to customize this website and the various tools with your personal preferences. Please note that we never share your registration details with anyone at any time.

For help registering on this site, view our "Smart-Farms Login" videoclip.

For help customizing your personal account, view the "Customize Your Smart-Farms Account" videoclip.

Both these and other videos are accessible from our Smart-Farms ©YouTube Channel (Link at right)