CN112167042A

CN112167042A - Intelligent control vertical farm

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Publication number: CN112167042A
Application number: CN202010923354.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 魏霄凌志
Original assignee: Guangdong Qianwan Wisdom Agricultural Equipment Manufacturing Co ltd
Current assignee: Guangdong Qianwan Wisdom Agricultural Equipment Manufacturing Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-09-04
Filing date: 2020-09-04
Publication date: 2021-01-05

Abstract

The invention relates to the field of vertical farms, in particular to an intelligently controlled vertical farm, comprising a rack, a planting board, a circulating pump, an integrated water and fertilizer pool, a transmission motor, a transmission mechanism and a controller, wherein the planting board can be rotated through the transmission mechanism It is arranged on the rack, the planting plate is provided with planting holes for planting plants, the inside of the rack is provided with a spray system, the controller is respectively electrically connected with the circulating pump and the transmission motor, and the circulating The pump water outlet is communicated with the water and fertilizer integration pool, the water outlet is communicated with the spray system, and the transmission mechanism is connected with the drive shaft of the transmission motor. The invention can effectively utilize natural light, save energy greatly, has high degree of mechanization, and can produce vegetables continuously; the labor intensity of workers is small, and the existing vegetable production and supply pattern can be changed; the production is simple and the cost is low, and it is especially suitable for leafy vegetables ; Make vegetables achieve high yield, stable yield and high rate of return.

Description

Intelligent control vertical farm

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of vertical farms, in particular to an intelligent control vertical farm.

Background

With the rapid increase of population, the acceleration of urbanization speed and the frequent occurrence of extreme weather, the shortage of cultivation resources such as land and the like is caused, and the search for a new effective planting mode is urgent. As plant factory technology matures, vertical agriculture developed on its basis has received a great deal of attention. The vertical farm is a novel indoor planting mode, the appearance of the vertical farm lies in the full utilization of resources and space, the vertical farm adopts a soilless solution cultivation mode, the energy cost is greatly reduced, and more foods can be provided simultaneously.

The vegetable industry is an important component of agriculture in China, and the development of the vegetable industry can promote the adjustment of agricultural structures, optimize the dietary structures of residents and improve the living standard of people. In China, vegetables are crops with the widest cultivation area and the most important economic status except for grain crops. The annual output exceeds 7 hundred million tons, and the per-capita occupation amount reaches more than 500 kg, which all live in the first place of the world.

In recent years, vegetable consumption has a fixed trend that good products are easy to go out, defective products are difficult to stand, and a plant factory with high quality and high-end vegetables is a modern agricultural sustainable production system manufactured by high technology. In the production system, a three-dimensional cultivation technology is adopted for annual production, and the plant yield is tens of times and tens of times of the traditional agricultural yield; the physical agricultural technology is adopted to replace chemical pesticides for killing insects and sterilizing, so that the plant quality reaches green even organic quality; by adopting the resource recycling technology, the utilization rate of various resources is improved, and zero emission and zero pollution are realized. The plant factory is an important way for scientific technology to build traditional agriculture, is the highest stage of facility agriculture, is an important mark of the agricultural development level of a region or a country, and is the development direction of the agriculture in the world in the 21 st century.

At present, the defects of the prior art of the vegetable planting equipment of the plant factory production line and the vertical farm are as follows: firstly, the energy consumption is high, and large plant factories such as Jingdong farms, Zhongke Sanan and the like which are currently engaged in industrial vegetable production have large investment and high operation cost; secondly, all small and medium-sized plant factories are shelf-type and do not have mechanized equipment and the like; thirdly, some plant factories have high intelligent degree but low return on investment.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the problems, the invention provides an intelligent control vertical farm, which has high intelligent degree, low operation cost and high return rate.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the technical scheme that: the utility model provides a perpendicular farm of intelligent control, includes the frame, plants board, circulating pump, liquid manure integration pond, driving motor, drive mechanism and controller, it rotationally sets up in the frame through drive mechanism to plant the board, it is equipped with the planting hole that is used for planting the plant on the board to plant, the inside spraying system that is equipped with of frame, the controller respectively with circulating pump, driving motor electric connection, the circulating pump draws water mouth and liquid manure integration pond intercommunication, delivery port and spraying system intercommunication, driving mechanism and driving motor's drive shaft connection.

Further, the spraying system comprises a spraying pipeline and a plurality of spray heads, the spraying pipeline is communicated with the circulating pump, the spray heads are respectively arranged on the spraying pipeline, and the spraying direction of the spray heads faces the direction of the planting plate. The liquid of the water and the fertilizer can form fog shape through the spray head, which is beneficial to the absorption of roots.

The spraying pipeline comprises a plurality of layers of branch pipelines in the horizontal direction, the branch pipelines on each layer are communicated, and a plurality of spray heads are respectively arranged on the front side and the rear side of each branch pipeline.

Further, drive mechanism includes driving chain, driving sprocket and driven sprocket, plant the board left and right sides limit and be connected with the driving chain respectively, driven sprocket and driving sprocket set up respectively in the frame, driving sprocket passes through the drive shaft connection of drive belt and driving motor, driving sprocket and driven sprocket mesh with the driving chain respectively.

The planting plate is formed by a plurality of planting strips which are arranged adjacently, two ends of each planting strip are connected with the transmission chain respectively, and planting holes are uniformly formed in the surfaces of the planting strips. The planting strips move up and down circularly along with the machine, thereby absorbing the sunlight evenly.

Furthermore, a recovery tray for recovering liquid sprayed out by the spraying system is further arranged on the lower side in the rack.

In addition, the harvesting machine also comprises a harvesting pond, and the harvesting pond is placed on one side of the machine frame.

Furthermore, the vertical farm is arranged in a planting shed made of transparent glass or a film, and a master control system for adjusting indoor temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide concentration and light intensity is arranged in the planting shed.

The planting shed is characterized in that a sunshade net is arranged on the upper side of the planting shed, the master control system comprises a fan and an artificial water waterfall, the fan is arranged on the front side of the planting shed, the artificial water waterfall is arranged on the rear side of the planting shed, and indoor air is pumped out of the planting shed by the fan.

The invention has the beneficial effects that:

the invention can effectively utilize natural light and greatly save energy;

secondly, intelligent control is realized, the degree of mechanization is high, and the vegetables can be continuously produced;

thirdly, the soil environment is not polluted by adopting water and fertilizer integration;

the worker has low working strength, can be popularized and used in and around cities in a large range, and can change the existing vegetable production and supply pattern;

fifthly, the production is simple, the cost is low, and the method is particularly suitable for leafy vegetables;

and sixthly, the plant factory and the vertical farm environment are intelligently controlled, so that the temperature, the light intensity, the wind power, the humidity, the carbon dioxide and the water and fertilizer can be intelligently regulated, the vegetables can be produced with high yield and stability, and the return rate is high.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the present embodiment.

Fig. 2 is another perspective view of the present embodiment.

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of the right side of the present embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the internal structure of the housing with the planting plate removed and the tray recovered.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of the planting shed in the embodiment.

The reference numbers illustrate: 1. a frame; 2. planting a plate; 21. planting holes; 22. planting strips; 3. a circulation pump; 4. a water and fertilizer integrated pool; 5. a drive motor; 6. a transmission mechanism; 61. a drive chain; 62. a drive sprocket; 63. a driven sprocket; 64. a drive shaft; 7. a controller; 8. a spray system; 81. a spray pipe; 82. a spray head; 9. recovering the tray; 10. planting shed; 101. a fan; 102. artificial water waterfall; 11. and (4) a harvesting pond.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the following detailed description and accompanying drawings. The present application may be embodied in many different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described in the present embodiment. The following detailed description is provided to facilitate a more thorough understanding of the present disclosure, and the words used to indicate orientation, top, bottom, left, right, etc. are used solely to describe the illustrated structure in connection with the accompanying figures.

Referring to fig. 1-5, the invention relates to an intelligent control vertical farm, which comprises a frame 1, a planting plate 2, a circulating pump 3, a water and fertilizer integrated pool 4, a transmission motor 5, a transmission mechanism 6 and a controller 7, wherein the planting plate 2 is rotatably arranged on the front side, the upper side, the rear side and the lower side of the frame 1 through the transmission mechanism 5, a planting hole 21 for planting plants is formed in the planting plate 2, a spraying system 8 is arranged in the frame 1, the controller 7 is respectively electrically connected with the circulating pump 3 and the transmission motor 5, a water pumping port of the circulating pump 3 is communicated with the water and fertilizer integrated pool, a water outlet is communicated with the spraying system 8, and the transmission mechanism 6 is connected with a driving shaft of the transmission motor 5. Wherein, controller 7 sets up in the middle of 1 right side in the frame, driving motor 6 sets up at the right side lower extreme, circulating pump 3 sets up on 1 bottom right sides in the frame, liquid manure integration pond 4 sets up in 1 bottom in the frame, 1 inside downside in frame still is equipped with the recovery tray 9 that is used for retrieving 8 spun liquid manure liquid of spraying system, and this recovery tray 9 can dismantle the joint in frame 1, can not cause the waste, also avoids fertilizing too much to the plant on 1 downside planting board 2 in the frame, better control fertilization volume.

The vegetable equipment of the vertical farm and the plant factory is placed in a light-transmitting room, the humidity is controlled by using a sunshade net and an indoor spray system, the indoor temperature is regulated by installing a water curtain and an exhaust fan at the top, the carbon dioxide generator is installed to regulate the concentration of carbon dioxide so that vegetables can grow better, the sensor and various intelligent control systems are installed, and the whole vegetable production process can be visible and can be remotely controlled by applying the Internet of things and the Internet technology.

In the present embodiment, the spraying system 8 includes a spraying pipe 81 and a plurality of spray heads 82, the spraying pipe 81 is communicated with the circulating pump 3, the spray heads 82 are respectively disposed on the spraying pipe 81, and the spraying direction of the spray heads 82 faces the planting plate 2. The spraying pipe 81 comprises a plurality of layers of branch pipes in the horizontal direction, the branch pipes in each layer are communicated, and a plurality of spray heads 82 are respectively arranged on the front side and the rear side of each branch pipe. The atomizing nozzles 82 are preferred here, and the water and fertilizer sprayed through the nozzles 82 provide nutrition and moisture to the roots of the plants on the planting plates 2 on the front and rear sides of the frame 1, so that the uniform spraying of the planting plates 2 can be realized due to the cyclic rotation of the planting plates 2, or the specific positions of the sprayed planting plates 2 are controlled by the controller 7 according to actual conditions.

In this embodiment, the transmission mechanism 6 includes a transmission chain 61, a driving sprocket 62 and a driven sprocket 63, the left and right sides of the planting plate 2 are respectively connected to the transmission chain 61, the driven sprockets 63 are respectively disposed at the upper ends of the left and right sides and the lower ends of the left and right sides of the rack 1, the driving sprockets 62 are disposed at the lower ends of the left and right sides of the rack 1 and connected to the driving shaft of the transmission motor 5 through a transmission belt, since the left and right lower ends of the rack are both provided with 1 driving sprocket 62, the left and right driving sprockets 62 are connected through a transmission shaft 64, the transmission motor 5 drives the right driving sprocket 62 to rotate through the transmission belt, and simultaneously drives the left driving sprocket 62 to rotate through the transmission shaft 64; the driving chain wheel 62 and the driven chain wheel 63 are respectively meshed with the transmission chain 61, the driving chain wheel 62 is driven to rotate through the transmission motor 5, the transmission chain 61 meshed with the driving chain wheel 62 rotates, and therefore the planting plate 2 is driven to rotate. Planting plate 2 is adjacent by a plurality of planting strips 22 and sets up, planting strip 22 both ends are connected with driving chain 61 respectively, guarantee to plant the strip and can rotate at frame 1 upper loop, planting strip 22 surface evenly sets up planting hole 21, and the user need inject the root of leaf class plant in planting hole 21.

Perpendicular farm of this embodiment should set up in clear glass's planting shed 10, be equipped with the total control system of adjusting indoor temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, light intensity in planting shed 10, can realize the indoor environment of intelligent regulation to make the plant can be fit for growing under this environment, this part belongs to prior art, no longer gives unnecessary details here. In addition, a harvesting pond 11 is arranged, the harvesting pond 11 is placed on one side of the machine frame 1, a user can clean the harvesting pond 11 after removing the vegetables on the planting plate 2, and the user can conveniently wash hands and other cleaning actions.

The planting shed 10 is provided with a sunshade net on the upper side, the master control system comprises a fan 101 and an artificial water waterfall 102, the fan 101 is arranged on the front side of the planting shed 10, the artificial water waterfall 102 is arranged on the rear side of the planting shed 10, indoor air is pumped out of the room by the fan 101, water of the artificial water waterfall 102 can be brought into the room, indoor wind power can be adjusted, the effect of adjusting indoor temperature and humidity can be achieved, and the indoor temperature can be kept at 8-10 ℃ through cold water. Furthermore, the vertical farm typically has a height of 3-9 meters, and is therefore preferably a 10 meter high planting shed 10.

The use method of the intelligent control vertical farm of the embodiment comprises the following steps: the user is through planting leaf class plant to plant hole 21 on, the user can control drive motor 5 and circulating pump 3's work through controller 7, if control drive motor 5 drive planting board 2 rotates, control circulating pump 3 take out the liquid manure in liquid manure integration pond 4 on spray pipe 81 to spray the plant root through shower nozzle 82 and fertilize.

The vertical farm of the embodiment is one of plant factories, vegetables are planted on the planting plates 2, and the planting plates 2 are lifted upwards mechanically. Under the floor area of several square areas, the planting area is infinitely enlarged, 80 vegetables can be planted in the vertical farm planting plate every time the vertical farm planting plate is upwards raised by one meter, 800 vegetables can be upwards raised by ten meters, 1600 vegetables exist in the two-way circulation mode, 6.6 vegetables exist in the range of one meter, 66 vegetables exist in the range of ten meters, 5280 vegetables can be planted in the range of ten meters high and ten meters wide, ten thousand vegetables exist on both sides, the sprinkling irrigation technology is used in the middle of the double-sided planting plate 2 to simulate the growth mode of tropical rain forest, the vegetables can rapidly grow, due to the fact that the mechanical degree is high, the planting plate 2 can be driven by machinery to vertically circulate, and workers can plant vegetables and harvest vegetables only through ground operation.

Compared with the prior art, firstly, the invention makes full use of natural light to replace the traditional high-energy-consumption plant factory using LED lamps in the market at present, realizes low-carbon operation and reduces the vegetable planting cost. Secondly, the vertical planting mode is adopted, the land occupation area is reduced, the vegetable growth area is increased, the vegetable planting industry is not required to face the loess back to the sky, and the working environment is similar to a laboratory. Thirdly, the planting plate is lifted to the high altitude mechanically, the full production environment of the vegetables is controlled intelligently, the working intensity of workers is reduced, the workload is reduced, and the labor cost for planting the vegetables is further reduced. Fourthly, the water and fertilizer integrated technology is applied, the spraying system is arranged in the middle of the upper and lower circulating double-sided planting equipment, so that the roots of the vegetables can directly absorb nutrition, the growth speed is closer to nature, the growth speed is higher, and the yield is higher.

It should be further described that both the controller 7 and the general control system in the planting shed 10 need to be connected to a power supply, which belongs to the known technology and is not described herein again; the controller 7 implements the control function through a preset program, which does not belong to the protection scope of the present invention, and is not described herein again. Unless otherwise specifically stated or limited, the terms "connected," "secured," "mounted," and the like are to be construed broadly and their specific meanings in the context of the present application will be understood by those skilled in the art as being related to the specific situation.

The above embodiments are merely illustrative of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and not restrictive, and various changes and modifications to the technical solutions of the present invention may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the present invention, and the technical solutions of the present invention are intended to fall within the scope of the present invention defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. An intelligent control vertical farm, which is characterized in that: including frame, planting board, circulating pump, liquid manure integration pond, driving motor, drive mechanism and controller, it rotationally sets up in the frame to plant the board through drive mechanism, it is equipped with the planting hole that is used for planting the plant on the board to plant, the inside spraying system that is equipped with of frame, the controller respectively with circulating pump, driving motor electric connection, the circulating pump draws water mouth and liquid manure integration pond intercommunication, delivery port and spraying system intercommunication, drive mechanism is connected with the driving motor drive.

2. An intelligent control vertical farm according to claim 1, characterised in that: the spraying system comprises a spraying pipeline and a plurality of spray heads, the spraying pipeline is communicated with the circulating pump, the spray heads are respectively arranged on the spraying pipeline, and the spraying direction of the spray heads faces to the direction of the planting plate.

3. An intelligent control vertical farm according to claim 2, characterised in that: the spraying pipeline comprises a plurality of layers of branch pipelines in the horizontal direction, the branch pipelines on each layer are communicated, and a plurality of spray heads are respectively arranged on the front side and the rear side of each branch pipeline.

4. An intelligent control vertical farm according to claim 1, characterised in that: drive mechanism includes driving chain, driving sprocket and driven sprocket, plant board both sides limit and be connected with the driving chain respectively, driven sprocket and driving sprocket set up respectively in the frame, driving sprocket passes through the drive shaft connection of drive belt and driving motor, driving sprocket and driven sprocket mesh with the driving chain respectively.

5. An intelligent control vertical farm according to claim 4, wherein: the planting plate is formed by adjacently arranging a plurality of planting strips, two ends of each planting strip are respectively connected with the transmission chain, and planting holes are uniformly formed in the surfaces of the planting strips.

6. An intelligent control vertical farm according to claim 1, characterised in that: and a recovery tray for recovering liquid sprayed out by the spraying system is further arranged on the lower side in the rack.

7. An intelligent control vertical farm according to claim 1, characterised in that: still including gathering the pond, gather the pond and place in frame one side.

8. An intelligent control vertical farm according to claim 1, characterised in that: the vertical farm is arranged in a planting shed made of transparent glass or a film, and a master control system for adjusting indoor temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, light intensity and wind power is arranged in the planting shed.

9. An intelligent control vertical farm according to claim 8, wherein: plant the canopy upside and be equipped with the sunshade net, total control system includes fan and artifical water fall, the fan sets up at planting canopy front side, and artifical water fall sets up at planting canopy rear side, the fan is taken out indoor wind outdoor.