Plant Lighting System with Location Indication

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing plant growth lighting systems lack the ability to indicate their location, which can hinder optimal placement and adjustment for efficient plant growth.

Innovation Solution

A lighting system that utilizes positioning chips, such as GPS or RSSI chips, to determine its location and communicate this information to a computer, allowing for adjustment of light signals based on the system's position relative to the plants, using wireless networks and light sensors to provide digital location and light maps for optimal lighting configuration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If lighting systems use basic LED or gas-based lights without positioning capabilities, then the device complexity is low, but the ability to optimize plant growth through location-based control is poor

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelocation-based control capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The lighting system integrates multiple functions into a single device: it combines plant growth lighting with location indication capabilities through integrated LEDs that can serve both illumination and positioning purposes, eliminating the need for separate positioning devices

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses different colored LEDs (blue, red, green, yellow) to provide both the spectral requirements for plant photosynthesis and visual location indication, where the same light sources serve dual purposes of plant growth facilitation and position signaling

Inventive Principle:

Principle #32Color changes

2Ease of operation

If lighting systems provide location indication capabilities, then the ease of operation improves, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplacement and adjustment easeVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The lighting system automatically indicates its own location and status through integrated LEDs that provide visual feedback without requiring external monitoring devices or complex control systems, making the system self-describing and easier to operate

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Different LED colors indicate different operational states and locations (blue for north, red for south, green for east, yellow for west), providing intuitive visual information to operators about system status and position without requiring additional controls or interfaces

Inventive Principle:

Principle #32Color changes

Data Source

PatentUS10652969B2Lighting system for growing plants which provides a location indication

Publication Date: 2020.05.12 LUMIGROW

AI summary

A lighting system includes an LED controller, and an LED array which includes first and second LED sub-arrays, wherein the LED array is operatively coupled to the LED controller. The lighting system includes an antenna in communication with the LED controller. First and second wavelength spectrums are provided by the first and second LED sub-arrays, respectively, and are adjustable in response to adjusting an input signal provided to the antenna.