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Controlled Environments
Qubit-Phenomics designs and builds controlled environments for plant cultivation that range from small reach-in Fytoscope growth cabinets to large-scale intelligent greenhouses. All products are built to the most exacting engineering standards, and with the aim of maximizing energy efficiency to minimize long-term operating costs. Our plant growth facilities include numerous innovative design features, including a choice of lighting options, multiple light banks for multi-tiered growth space and large area heat exchangers that operate at low power and do not require high capacity fans.
- Lighting: adjustable in intensity (from 0 % to 100 %), timing, modulation, and diurnal cycling
- Temperature: maximum +40 °C; minimum +10 °C (lights ON, ambient room temperature up to 35 °C); optionally minimum down to +4 °C
- CO2 concentration control
- Relative humidity adjustable from 40 % to 80 % (independent of light intensity)
- LED technology with minimum undesired plant heating
- White LED illumination with supplementary FAR LEDs for excellent plant growth
- Standard PAR up to 1,000 μmol.m-2.s-1 at the distance of 50 cm. Higher irradiances available as an option
- Rapid modulation of irradiance simulating light flecks as well as precise adjustment of the light intensity in the range of 1 to 100 %
- Homogeneous illumination over the whole cultivation area
- Adjustable shelving (optional)
- Incorporated measurement of chlorophyll fluorescence (optional)
All of our growth facilities are designed for easy and effective inclusion of plant imaging equipment, either through installation of a robotic arm to carry the imaging system to the plants, or installation of a conveyor system to carry the plants to the imaging stations.
All Fytoscope chambers and greenhouses can be fitted with a system for automated watering and nutrient delivery as well as options for:
- Morphometric and RGB Analysis
- Chlorophyll Fluorescence Kinetics Imaging
- Thermal Imaging
- Hyperspectral Imaging
- NIR Imaging
Environmental conditions that may be monitored within the Fytoscopes and greenhouses include:
- Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR)
- Spectral Composition
- Atmospheric CO2 Concentration
- Relative Humidity
- Air Temperature
- Data collection in real time
- Data upload for processing – even when the experiment is running
- Data visualization in graphs or tables
- Web interface
- 10.5″ LCD color touch screen located at the front side of the chamber
- Included software for user-friendly protocol programming
- Memory for 100 user-created protocols
- Graphical representation of conditions inside the FytoScope – displayed are both actual conditions and target values
- Data transfer via Ethernet or USB interface
- Remote control over LAN
- Internal diagnostic system for recording and reporting of possible failures