Sustainable Indoor Intelligent Aquaponics Farming based on Industry 4.0 (Aquaponics4.0)

基于工业4.0的可持续室内智能鱼菜共生农业（Aquaponics4.0）

• 批准号: 545537-2019
• 负责人: Ahmad, Rafiq
• 金额: $ 15.91万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=694610
• 关键词: Sustainable; Indoor; Intelligent; Aquaponics; Farming

Our society is facing a long-term decreasing available stock of agricultural land per capita. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), by 2050, arable land per person will decrease to one-third of the amount available in 1970. Using aquaponics, high-rise farms, with many levels on the same footprint of land, provide alternatives that can increase the amount of agricultural land available. Aquaponics extends the model of greenhouse hydroponic farming, with better requirements for herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers. Aquaponics requires much less water than outdoor farming because gray water is recycled and there is less evaporation. Today, with demands for energy efficiency, connectivity and sustainability, the food industry needs to engage researchers to bring connected cyber-physical systems to aquaponics technologies. This research program aims to bring the initial model of vertical farming, developed in previous decades, to a state-of-the-art level and use Canadian-made technologies to address technology gaps in the existing vertical farm processes. Focusing on Industry 4.0 principles of integrated cyber-physical systems, and following the previous ENGAGE grant research, where we designed an intelligent racking system, this research will design, prototype and test, cyber-physical vertical farming systems.

我们的社会正面临着人均农业土地存量长期减少的问题。根据联合国粮食及农业组织（粮农组织）的数据，到2050年，人均可耕地将减少到1970年的三分之一。使用鱼菜共生，高层农场，在相同的土地足迹上有许多层次，提供了可以增加可用农业土地数量的替代方案。鱼菜共生扩展了温室水培农业的模式，对除草剂，杀虫剂和肥料有更好的要求。鱼菜共生比户外农业需要更少的水，因为灰水被回收，蒸发量更少。如今，随着对能源效率、连通性和可持续性的需求，食品行业需要让研究人员参与进来，将互联的网络物理系统引入鱼菜共生技术。该研究计划旨在将过去几十年开发的垂直农业的初始模型提升到最先进的水平，并使用丹麦制造的技术来解决现有垂直农业过程中的技术差距。专注于工业4.0集成网络物理系统的原则，并遵循之前的ENGAGE资助研究，我们设计了一个智能货架系统，这项研究将设计，原型和测试，网络物理垂直农业系统。