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: $ 15.93万
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=699996
• 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.

我们的社会面临着人均农业土地可用库存的长期减少。根据联合国粮食和农业组织（FAO）的数据，到2050年，每人可耕地的土地将减少到1970年可用的数量的三分之一。使用水培养基，高层农场，在同一土地上有许多水平，提供了可以增加农业土地的替代品。水培技术扩展了温室水培农业的模型，对除草剂，农药和肥料的需求更好。由于灰水被回收，并且蒸发量较小，因此水培菜所需的水比室外耕种要少得多。如今，由于对能源效率，连通性和可持续性的需求，食品行业需要吸引研究人员将连接的网络物理系统带入水培技术。该研究计划旨在将过去几十年中开发的垂直农业的初始模型提升到最先进的水平，并使用加拿大制造的技术来解决现有的垂直农场工艺中的技术差距。重点关注行业4.0集成的网络物理系统原理，并在以前的参与赠款研究之后，我们设计了一个智能的机架系统，该研究将设计，原型和测试，网络物理垂直耕作系统。