Optimizing the Rejuvenate prototype design for growing plants and manufacturing

优化植物种植和制造的 Rejuvenate 原型设计

• 批准号: 568793-2021
• 负责人: Méthot, Nathalie
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: La Cité collégiale
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=723932
• 关键词: Optimizing; Rejuvenate; prototype; design; growing

Plantaform Technology Inc ("Plantaform") is a Canadian startup (www.plantaform.com) founded in 2019 that aims at commercializing an innovative fogponics-based indoor garden called "Rejuvenate". Plantaform is initiating a new applied research collaboration with La Cité's experts in the Centre for Expertise in Smart Prototyping (CEPI). This collaboration will help the R&D team of Plantaform optimize and complete the experiments planned to accelerate the development of its prototype. Rejuvenate is designated to provide water and nutrients efficiently to plants via the technology of fogponics cutting down tremendously the maintenance required compared to its competitors using the standard hydroponics route. For this to work, the fog must be distributed to all plants equally and effectively. La Cité`s team will work closely with Plantaform`s team to provide experience-based suggestions to improve their current prototype modeling using the Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) software. Plantaform will be using the results from this project to optimize the design of its prototype for manufacturing and to grow plants, herbs and flowers successfully in Rejuvenate with minimal attention. Plantaform plants to start its operations and manufacturing in Canada by 2022.

Plantaform Technology Inc（“ Plantaform”）是2019年成立的加拿大初创公司（www.plantaform.com），旨在将基于创新的基于雾化的室内花园商业化，名为“恢复活力”。 Plantaform是与LaCité专家智能原型专家（CEPI）的专家进行的新应用研究合作。这项合作将有助于植物场的研发团队优化并完成计划加速其原型开发的实验。通过使用标准水培技术的竞争对手相比，恢复活力为植物有效地提供了水和养分，可为植物有效地提供水和养分。为此，必须平均有效地将雾分配给所有植物。 LaCité的团队将与Plantaform的团队紧密合作，以提供基于经验的建议，以使用计算流体动力学（CFD）软件来改善其当前的原型建模。 Plantaform将利用该项目的结果来优化其制造原型的设计，并以最小的关注，成功地生长植物，草药和花朵，使其恢复活力。植物园工厂将于2022年在加拿大开始运营和制造。