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Notes from building the platform
Working notes on control, energy, crop data and buying software for controlled-environment agriculture. Written by the people building it, with the limits stated.
A safety envelope belongs below the automation, not inside it
If the logic that sets a target also decides what counts as safe, one mistake can get past both. Where hard limits belong, and what they cannot do on their own.
ReadBuying light when it is cheap: DLI targets and half-hourly tariffs
The crop needs a quantity of light, not a particular clock time. Once that is the framing, the lighting schedule becomes a buying decision as much as an agronomic one.
ReadThe questions worth asking any CEA software vendor
Words like AI, autonomous and open survive procurement because nobody makes them prove anything. A handful of specific questions changes that.
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Bring the awkward questions
If something here is wrong, or does not match what you see on your own site, we would rather hear it than not.
- Walkthrough led by someone who has built the system
- We map your zones, crops and sensors before the call
- Straight answers on what fits and what does not