What is Agricultural Control?

Conceptually, agricultural control is concerned with generating outputs to the actuators to perform appropriate tasks. A greenhouse controller is depicted below. Here, based on the current state of the inputs, a decision maker must activate the various outputs. How and when to activate the outputs from the given inputs follows the knowledge of the decision maker.

Here, the decision maker may be a human, turning the outputs on or off based on his readings of the inputs and his experience as a grower. The iNetGrow system provides the means to perform the control tasks in a variety of modes.

Also see the sections “iNetGrowX” and “Integrating with Web Services.”

A Brief Review of iNetGrow

1. What is Agricultural Control?

2. Sensors and Actuators

3. The “Apopka” Controller

4. Ethernet and Internet Protocols

5. Pictures of Sample Implementations

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