Virtual Horticultural Lighting Scenario Simulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current horticultural lighting systems lack the ability to optimize lighting scenarios for plant growth without measuring key parameters, leading to inefficiencies in energy consumption and time, making it difficult to select the most suitable lighting scenarios for specific crops or environments.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for simulating horticultural lighting scenarios that include an input module for receiving simulation parameters, a graphical user interface for creating and editing virtual lighting scenarios, a lamp profile acquisition module for generating virtual illumination instructions, and a scenario simulation module for estimating integral indicators, allowing for the selection and implementation of optimized lighting scenarios based on simulation results.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If physical implementation of horticultural lighting scenarios is performed to measure resulting parameters, then measurement precision is improved, but energy consumption and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of horticultural lighting scenarios that simulate real-world lighting conditions and plant responses without physical implementation. The virtual scenario engine generates digital representations of lighting setups, allowing parameter measurement and optimization in silico before physical deployment, thereby eliminating the energy consumption associated with repeated physical testing while maintaining measurement precision through virtual sensing and modeling.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary virtual testing and optimization of lighting scenarios before physical implementation. By pre-simulating lighting parameters, plant responses, and environmental interactions in a virtual environment, the system determines optimal lighting configurations in advance, avoiding the need for energy-intensive trial-and-error physical testing while ensuring accurate parameter measurement through virtual sensing mechanisms.
2Measurement precision
If physical implementation of horticultural lighting scenarios is performed to measure resulting parameters, then measurement precision is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of horticultural lighting scenarios that simulate real-world lighting conditions and plant responses without physical implementation. The virtual scenario engine generates digital representations of lighting setups, allowing parameter measurement and optimization in silico before physical deployment, thereby eliminating the time consumption associated with repeated physical testing while maintaining measurement precision through virtual sensing and modeling.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary virtual testing and optimization of lighting scenarios before physical implementation. By pre-simulating lighting parameters, plant responses, and environmental interactions in a virtual environment, the system determines optimal lighting configurations in advance, avoiding the need for time-consuming trial-and-error physical testing while ensuring accurate parameter measurement through virtual sensing mechanisms.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple horticultural lighting scenarios are tested physically to select optimized scenarios, then adaptability is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of multiple horticultural lighting scenarios that simulate real-world lighting conditions and plant responses without physical implementation. The virtual scenario engine generates digital representations of various lighting setups, allowing comprehensive testing and comparison of multiple scenarios in silico, thereby enabling high adaptability selection without the energy consumption associated with physically implementing and testing each scenario.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual scenario engine serves multiple functions simultaneously: it simulates diverse lighting conditions, models plant responses, measures parameters, optimizes scenarios, and predicts performance across different environments. This multi-functional virtual platform enables comprehensive adaptability assessment for multiple lighting scenarios without the cumulative energy cost of separate physical tests for each scenario.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple horticultural lighting scenarios are tested physically to select optimized scenarios, then adaptability is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of multiple horticultural lighting scenarios that simulate real-world lighting conditions and plant responses without physical implementation. The virtual scenario engine generates digital representations of various lighting setups, allowing comprehensive testing and comparison of multiple scenarios in silico, thereby enabling high adaptability selection without the time consumption associated with physically implementing and testing each scenario.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual scenario engine serves multiple functions simultaneously: it simulates diverse lighting conditions, models plant responses, measures parameters, optimizes scenarios, and predicts performance across different environments. This multi-functional virtual platform enables comprehensive adaptability assessment for multiple lighting scenarios without the cumulative time cost of separate physical tests for each scenario.
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AI summary
A system for simulating and implementing lighting scenarios for driving a horticultural light source in accordance with illumination instructions. The system comprises: an input module receiving simulation parameters; a graphical user interface for selecting, creating, editing, re-ordering, duplicating and/or replicating a virtual lighting scenario; a lamp profile acquisition module acquiring a reference profile of the light source and generating virtual illumination instructions for the virtual lighting scenario; a scenario simulation module simulating the execution of the virtual lighting scenario, for the horticultural light source, in accordance with the simulation parameters and for a specific time period and generating therefrom simulation results including integral indicators displayable on the graphical user interface; and an output module receiving a designated lighting scenario selected based on the simulation results and outputting the illumination instructions representative of the designated scenario. A method for simulating and implementing lighting scenarios is also provided.