Development and Integration of an IoT Application and Sensor Suite into Indoor Vertical Farming Product Line

Just Vertical是加拿大首屈一指的垂直种植和垂直农业系统供应商，面向加拿大的住宅和小规模商业城市农民。作为一家专注于研究和创新的公司，Just Vertical正在不断投资，根据客户需求和市场研究来优化其产品。将物联网解决方案实施到他们的产品线上，对于保持满足任务自动化的市场需求和行业趋势的技术先锋至关重要。然而，仅是垂直领域就需要更多的专业知识和技术能力。在合作中，Just Vertical和Lambton College将专注于为现有的垂直花园系统开发和实施物联网解决方案，方法是实现灌溉变量(泵水持续时间/触发)、照明(持续时间和可调光性)和水监测的自动化，并结合内置的创新方法，使这些花园保持本地和远程控制。通过在现有开发的产品中实施物联网解决方案，客户将能够灵活地监控植物生长，而复杂性很低。这一合作项目的总体成果是将物联网解决方案实施到Just Vertical产品，改进Just Vertical现有的移动应用程序，并将该应用程序集成到新的传感器套件中。这将为业务增加重大价值，并加强公司作为市场领导者的地位。此外，这也带来了新的市场机会，因为该公司将能够利用可扩展的技术扩展到新的B2B商业市场。预计这将推动安大略省的创新，并在未来五年产生超过2000万美元的收入，同时还将导致该产品开发在研发、销售和营销以及制造方面创造12-15个全职职位。

Just vertical is a premier vertical growing and vertical farming systems provider for residential and small-scale commercial urban farmers in Canada. A dedicated research and innovation company, Just Vertical is continually investing efforts to optimize its products according to customer needs and market research. The implementation of IoT solutions to their product line is critical to maintaining the technological vanguard meeting the market needs and industry tendencies for task automation. However, Just Vertical requires further expertise and technical capabilities. In collaboration, Just Vertical and Lambton College will focus on the development and implementation of IoT solutions to Just Vertical existing garden systems by automating variables of irrigation (pump duration/triggers), lighting (duration and dimmability), and monitoring water, as well as incorporating built-in innovative ways to have these gardens remain controlled locally and remotely. By implementing IoT solutions to the existing developed products, the client will have the flexibility to monitor the plant growth with little complexity. The overall outcome of this collaborative project is the implementation of the IoT solution to Just Vertical products, and improvement of Just Vertical's existing mobile app, and the integration of the app to a new sensor suite. This will add significant value to the business and strengthen the company's position as a market leader. As well, this presents new market opportunities as the company will be able to expand into new B2B commercial markets with scalable technology. It is expected that this will drive innovation in Ontario and generate revenue of $20 million-plus in the next five years, while also leading to the creation of 12-15 full-time positions in R&D, sales and marketing, and manufacturing from this product development.