Welcome to the Smart Farms website!
This project is all about saving water, increasing efficiency and reducing the environmental impacts of our production practices! We are using wireless sensor networks and environmental modeling to more accurately predict and apply irrigation wate in nursery and greenhouse operations, and to monitor green roofs for stormwater mitigation.
Our 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 to provide you with an overview and information about our approach. We are actively collaborating with a few commercial operations as test environments, to learn how we can best implement our improvements.
Our Vision is to provide the nursery and greenhouse industries with cost-effective tools that can be used to reduce the cost of inputs, increase profitability and encourage sustainable practices throughout the United States.
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