After researching the idea of
the challenge and NASA sources, captured pictures, statistics, data, and food production methods, we found some problems that we are working on in the project, namely: -
1- The world’s need for food despite the world’s precautions, but the closing situation will lead to food depletion and starvation
2- The negative effects on the environment caused by the traditional agriculture, such as the emission of nitrogen and carbon oxides from the traditional farming machines.
3- Phenomena of desertification, burning of forests, and the percentage of agricultural land that we need to fill the deficit.
4- Increasing the world’s population so that in 2050 it will reach 9.8 billion people, which is a real problem
5- The traditional agriculture consumes large quantities of water, fertilizers, and area, and its poor productivity.
6- The problem of consuming some crops in vertical cultivation for a large amount of energy for growth.
7 - Geographical problems that you observe, such as the drying of some lakes and the melting of the icebergs, which threatens the drought of some areas in the future, which threatens agriculture.
8- The high costs of transporting some plants that do not grow in certain regions of the world, such as strawberries.
9- The inability to grow some trees by vertical planting methods.
10- Inability to grow some root plants on vertical farms.
Nurseries.
Its main idea is to grow plants in the seed stage of the meso stage for roots, stem and leaves in non-shrubs, but in the trees for the seedling stage.
And the idea of
vertical nurseries may have a solution, as there are some seeds that do not grow in the farms, so we define them and replace them with ones grown so that we avoid losses.
You will be in the same building until we reduce transportation costs.
Vertical cultivation
Her idea is to grow plants on several floors to save space.
We focused on:
1- Solve the problem of electricity consumption in some plants for lighting where the solution lies in 5 steps:.
1- Using zoom lenses and installing them in LED lights so that we focus the light in a larger area.
2- The idea of
mirrors on the side of the building to reflect light during the sun’s presence at a certain angle, depending on the height of the plant or its need for lighting, which will reduce the use of lamps during the day.
4- Colorful LEDs like red and blue that will accelerate plant growth.
5- The use of solar light-tracking panels, which can produce + 80% more than ordinary panels.
Solve the problem of vertical tree planting.
By designing a stand for these trees, it takes up 3 trees in vertical planting. This two-storey stand can carry approximately 10 trees, which increases production.
The problem of growing root plants like potatoes can be solved by planting them in sponges in nurseries and then transferred to vertical farms.
We can also grow plants other than in their environment or season within vertical farms by controlling the temperature of the place.
Hydroponics cultivation, which saves 90% of water consumption and helps to raise fish in ponds under each column in ponds.
Solve the problem of fish production by adding ponds to it at the bottom of each column. The fish's output will help the plants grow, and we will install a water technology device to protect the plant from the hard parts that the fish produce.
One of the advantages of the project is that we are using a farm that is completely managed by artificial intelligence and robots where robots can do all agricultural work better than humans and this will save from labor wages expenses.
We focus on safety way that can safe all foods of infections so we saw that the vertical farming is the best way as we control everything by some robots which will take care of all plants, there are many companies that make this idea.
1.Iron Ox created a fully autonomous farm in San Carlos, California. The hydroponic indoor farm relies on two robots to plant, care for and harvest produce.
One of the robots is 1,000 pounds and about the size of a car. It picks up the trays of plants and transports them around the greenhouse. A second machine, a robotic arm, is responsible for all the fine manipulation tasks, like seeding and transplanting.
As a tray of plants matures, the mobile robot carries it to the processing area. Here, the robotic arm moves baby plants in densely packed trays to containers with more space. This optimizes space efficiency, because throughout their life cycle, plants are only given the room they need.
Co-founder and CEO Brandon Alexander claimed that Iron Ox is able to do the equivalent of 30 acres of outdoor farming in just a single acre on its robotic farm.
Though Iron Ox grows its produce using LED lights, in the future it hopes to build natural-light greenhouses to take advantage of the sun's free energy. Eventually, the company aims to make its non-GMO and pesticide-free produce as cheap as traditional agriculture. 2. Bowery Farming is putting an urban twist on agriculture, raising leafy greens and herbs in a high-tech warehouse a few miles outside of New York City, and celebrity chefs are starting to invest.
Using a mix of software, cameras, lights and robotics, Bowery can control precisely how plants grow. CEO and co-founder Irving Fain says chefs love the company’s systems because they allow Bowery to make customized ingredients for them, giving kale a softer leaf or arugula a more peppery taste, for example.
According to Fain, 1 square foot within one of these indoor farms is 100 times more productive than 1 square foot of arable land.
CNBC took a look inside of the company’s first farm in New Jersey with investor and celebrity chef Carla Hall, who is the Emmy-winning co-host of “The Chew” on ABC. “I visited the farm and tasted the food,” she said. “It moved from a concept and an idea that is sustainable to deliciousness.”
Today, the company grows and sells its own brand of baby kale, butterhead lettuce, arugula, mixed kales and basil. Some are available in and around New York including at Whole Foods markets, and restaurants Craft and Temple. Both are run by Tom Colicchio, also an investor.
Fain thinks of Bowery’s food as “post-organic.”
“We grow with no pesticides, herbicides or insecticides, no agrochemicals at all,” he said. “And we’re able to grow 365 days a year, independent of weather.”
Harmful emissions from plants can also be controlled because they are inside closed buildings.
Also, in the interest of the environment, we designed a device that can be used to reduce carbon emissions while transporting food, and also it can produce energy.
And until the goal is fully achieved, this farm can be used in space, not just on Earth.
Safe delivery.
We also designed a way to deliver products safely in the presence of the Corona virus, where there is an application that identifies the products that they want to buy and then order them. By designing the car we designed, cars can be made safe delivery. The delivery worker can deliver several orders without friction with the customer and can be paid in cash or Via the Internet.
One of the most important reasons that inspired us for this project is that the food problem is one of the biggest problems facing the world and that increases in the period of the epidemic. In our resolve to find a solution to this big problem, we developed the project on a sound scientific basis by finding solutions to increase crop production and increase the efficiency of seedlings. Agricultural and agriculture with new methods and methods that increase crops without the need for large agricultural spaces. We have also developed the project by finding solutions to provide the energy needed for agriculture and water provision through the use of new and modern irrigation methods and less use of human labor to reduce infection and use robots To help the project and increase its efficiency and the use of programming languages such as python, C ++ and Arduino, we used the space agency's databases to define the cultivated farmland areas and climatic conditions and provide all of this in the project to be an integrated project that solves all the problems that existed before Of course, we faced many problems, such as finding a solution to the problem of harmful emissions, we solved the problem and converted these emissions into oxygen and energy, and we faced the problems of vertical cultivation and we Solving them through genetic modifications increases the efficiency of the project and the use of robots that increase efficiency and one of the most important successes is reaching a new design for hydroponics buildings that provide a percentage of wasted water and increase the efficiency of seedlings cultivation and provide the necessary energy and provide greater lighting sources to save energy
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