The next generation of Smart Eco Greenhouse developed by open-minded young researchers and students.
Mission
Global climate changes significantly speed up the progress in sustainable production. Recent challenges, including increasing global warming, reduction of carbon footprint, and limited resources of freshwater, enforce the implementation of smart solutions.
The goal of the project VESNA (an acronym for Versatile Simulator for Near-zero Emissions Agriculture) is to design a smart eco greenhouse introducing recent technologies enabling smart, ecological, and effective organic farming into modern food production, see Smart Eco Approach.
Education Goals
Project VESNA aims to upskill students and young researchers, see the detailed list of Education goals. Therefore, students and young researchers are an integral part of the research and development of the VESNA project. From 2021, the project VESNA takes part in the student Project on process control.
VESNA in 100 words
The mission of the VESNA smart ecological greenhouse project is to contribute to the scientific research of sustainable organic food production in response to climate challenges. Young researchers and students from ÚIAM FCHPT STU in Bratislava cooperate on the project, focusing on developing the original embedded platforms, designing control algorithms, developing communication software, and implementing the advanced control theory based on optimization and artificial intelligence. Additionally, project VESNA innovatively strengthens students‘ soft skills, emphasizing teamwork, critical thinking, presentation, and communication skills.
Acknowledgments
We gratefully acknowledge the Humusoft company for the hardware support of project VESNA that enables us to improve the development of the novel construction of the smart greenhouse VESNA.
(August 2022)
We gratefully acknowledge the Tatra Bank Foundation (Nadácia Tatra banky) for supporting our grant application: Construction of a Smart Eco Greenhouse VESNA. We are proud that our grant application was among 12% of supported projects.
(November 2021)
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